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While installing Ubuntu 16-04-1 from USB device on a Thinkpad P50 with SSD drive; and selecting "Erase disk and install Ubuntu"; and selecting Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security;

it results in this error message:

"Executing 'grub-install/dev/nvme'failed. This is a fatal error"

The problem has been experienced by others, but the solutions always seem to involve setting the correct name for the bootloader as /dev/nvme0n1 after using the "Something else" option in the Installation type screen. See this thread for example: Cannot install Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell XPS 9550 -- grub-install /dev/nvme failed

I don't know how to set the location for the bootloader as /dev/nvme0n1 and still enjoy automatic disk encryption, with swap and whatever else all encrypted and automatically sorted out for me.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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  • i have the same issue.. but i don't know how to fix. – newmathwhodis Aug 05 '17 at 14:22
  • Did you follow the link in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/837052/914627 and visit http://www.rationaljava.com/2016/10/dell-xps13-dual-boot-windows-10-with.html ? - It suggests changing to boot AHCI and editing Grub to point to nvme0n1 instead of nvme. – Rob Feb 16 '19 at 21:29

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