I recently purchased the NUC HVK and am making this post from the newly minted Ubuntu 18.04 partition. Prior to getting the Ubiquity installer with 18.04 working I tried:
- Successful Windozer 10 on one hard drive for gaming - irrelevant to the topic of this post but included for full disclosure
- Arch's 2018.05.01 release and learned how woefully incompetent I am at partitioning two M.2 hard drives for UEFI/GPT boot - catastrophic failure, if I was better with Grub and EFI I probably could have got this to work but sadly much to learn I still have
- Antergos, in hopes of getting Pacman + GUI. Attempted with live disk boot entry both with and without 'nomodeset' but 'booted' to black screen or fail prompt
- Ubuntu 16.04 - also tanked with fire, did not try modificationating the live disk boot entry with 'nomodeset' but 'booted' to black screen assuming because it couldn't determine how to do anything with the graphics similar to Antergos
- Ubuntu 18.04 - worked like a champ, followed the askubuntu forums for how to get that second hard drive going correctly under UEFI/GPT and grub does everything it should including picking up the Dozer as well
The original plan was to not dual boot, install Arch on the board's fake raid and use the Intel and AMD iommu to do full passthrough to a KVM Dozer 10. But that was all a little bit ambitious, maybe someday.
I am currently under the impression that support for the Vega M isn't coming until the 4.18 kernel drops so regardless of distro we aren't getting anything 'ffishully until September. Right meow I'm in the process of building the 4.17 kernel and see if I can horse around and get Mesa 18.2 built and working but we'll see. If you'd like I can keep this post updated with my progress on the hax until September rolls around.
