MSI Vector 17 HX AI a2XW on Ubuntu Linux
Hello,
I just installed ubuntu 26.04 and because it has very recent hardware and I had one difficult passage, I am making this post.
Ubuntu 26.04 Installation and MSI Vector 17 HX AI Setup — Conversation
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This file contains the conversation content and key command/output
exchanges from the Ubuntu installation/setup thread, including Windows
resizing, Intel VMD troubleshooting, Ubuntu dual boot, GRUB boot order,
Secure Boot/MOK enrollment, and NVIDIA RTX 5090 driver setup.
NOTE: This is a reconstructed text export from the conversation context
available to the assistant.
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PART 1 — DISK PREPARATION / WINDOWS
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USER: If you do this your files wonty be protectes “Turn Off”,
Decryption in progress
USER: Can we already just look at the partitions ?
USER: 300MB EFI System, Windows C 1875.61 GB 900MB Recovery 30.82GB
Recovery partition
USER: What I usually do is having a linux system particition and a data
partition. On the data partition I alos put my docker images, LLM files,
etc. So I can easily do a fresh reinstall (In never upgrade my system
because I want to get rid of unneccessary files). Can you advice a
partition for this ?
USER: Windows is only used occationally, so 400GB is ok
USER: Device encryption says off
USER: It asks for the amount of space to shrink in MB, or shoud be use
Mb ? What would be your computed value ?
USER: That number is 1920624
USER: I made a mistake:
1. total size before shrink in MB 1920624
2. Size of available shrink space in MB 1821326
USER: Total size after shrink in MB 409600
USER: It is done, I have a bootable ubuntu-26.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso usb
stick
USER: I am now in “Try Ubuntu” and my wifi is connected
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PART 2 — LIVE UBUNTU HARDWARE CHECKS
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Detected PCI hardware:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Arrow Lake-S \[Intel
Graphics\] (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation
GB203M / GN22 \[GeForce RTX 5090 Max-Q / Mobile\] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio
device: NVIDIA Corporation GB203 High Definition Audio Controller (rev
a1) 80:14.5 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Device 7f2f
(rev 10) 80:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 800
Series ACE (Audio Context Engine) (rev 10) 84:00.0 Network controller:
Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775/AX1790/BE20/BE401/BE1750 2x2
(rev 1a)
Kernel:
7.0.0-30-generic