[01:22] <jthan> waltman: just seeing this. did you get it? I can plan to be around tomorrow if you want to talk through it som emore.
[02:25] <waltman> still not working :(
[04:12] <waltman> I updated my partition description: https://gist.github.com/waltman/bb0a3279731b488221e480acb953aae8
[04:12] <waltman> The error I'm getting is 'volume group "ssd-vg" not found'
[04:20] <jthan> waltman: you can /get/ to the installer now, right?
[04:21] <waltman> with some difficulty.
[04:22] <jthan> but you haven't actually installed yet
[04:22] <waltman> I set the partition type for /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 to eft and went through the entire install process again.
[04:22] <waltman> efi
[04:22] <jthan> I had a hell of a time with efi + raid1 on centos 7
[04:22] <waltman> I've installed it like a dozen times now.
[04:22] <jthan> haven't done w/ Ubuntu, but I could probably spin up a VM and try
[04:22] <jthan> if you think that'd be helpful.
[04:23] <waltman> The efi isn't on raid
[04:23] <jthan> and your efi is fat32?
[04:23] <jthan> and is the right size?
[04:24] <waltman> please see the gist I posted :)
[04:24] <waltman> I mean, I told the installer to make it fat32.
[04:24] <waltman> I have no way of telling if it actually did so.
[04:25] <jthan> Sure, unless you used fdisk or (gdisk) later.
[04:25] <jthan> okay h/o lemme grab the gist
[04:27] <jthan> And so what's not working now? Do you get to grub or no?
[04:28] <waltman> It tries to boot up and complains "volume group ssd-vg not found
[04:29] <jthan> I don't know much about LVM, admittedly.
[04:30] <jthan> But it seems likely to me that it's an lvm issue and not an efi/boot issue
[04:30] <jthan> Could be completely wrong there.
[04:32] <jthan> I think you could avoid this by not using LVM on top of a raid potentially, but I also don't know the Ubuntu installer well to suggest where it might be "confused"
[04:35] <jthan> You could just do efi, /boot, and /
[04:36] <jthan> obviously not solving your issue, but just avoiding it altogether
[05:04] <waltman> I got the pairs of drivs to raid them. I don't care as much about the lvm part
[05:04] <waltman> I didn't think efi was going to be an issue
[05:07] <jthan> I mean even on the centos installer you can just say "efi + raid" and it takes care of putting it on both drives
[05:07] <jthan> so I'm not quite sure how to tell Ubuntu to do it
[11:08] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, critters and everything else
[13:36] <waltman> morning
[16:36] <waltman> i finally got it to install!
[16:36] <waltman> So now…do I install a desktop first, or the nvidia driver first?
[16:57] <waltman> Ye gods, that's a lot of packages to install ubuntu-desktop!
[20:40] <jthan> waltman: what did you do differently?
[20:41] <jthan> nvmd. saw in #plug
[20:58] <waltman> yup