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Hardware: https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-G750JS/specifications/

If ubuntu is installed as a dualboot with other distro it want's to use other HDD by default when first HDD has enough space for ubuntu to use and share /boot and swap. -> has to be configured manually

When ubuntu is installed the initramfs-tools fails at the installation and then prevents the system from using apt:

root@Ubuntus-G750JS:/home/kreyonubuntu# apt install fancontrol
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
fancontrol is already the newest version (1:3.4.0-4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 224 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.5) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.5) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-29-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-29-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ubuntu by default is unable to use GPU fan which results in overheating the GPU and possible hardware damage. Same issue on Live version of gentoo.. Related: https://bugs.gentoo.org/669818

If ubuntu is installed as dual-boot it defaults to 4.19.0-gentoo instead of ubuntu kernel. Should be fixed to use ubuntu kernel by default.

Those issues can be reproduced.

EDIT1: If UEFI is used with non-UEFI /boot partition the installation can't switch to non-EUFI version or to reinstall the non-UEFI on UEFI and keep the kernel images.

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I fixed the initramfs-tools issue by removing it via terminal.

The issue with wrong kernel can be selected in grub and edited as permanent fix.

The overheating seems to be fixed using Fan not running in Ubuntu 14.04

EDIT1: The overheating is still present

EDIT2: issue with initramfs-tools was fixed by extending /boot from 128MB to 1GB. + The issue with wrong kernel.

EDIT3: The overheating issue was resolved by installing nvidia drivers 390.