Install fails on dell 5280 with nvme pcie drive.

[Joshua Gordon]

Setup UEFI in bios and attempt to install 16.04 or 18.04 and the install crashes could not install boot loader at /

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 11 16:49:53 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Joshua Gordon (joshuagordondba)]

Turns out that Enabling Raid and Intel Device Management in the bios then setting up a EFI System Partition. Allowed me to install. Once that was done the installation of the Nvidia Proprietary Driver not nouveau got rid of the original issues I was having where my desktop would lock up with a black screen.

This is where I found the solution.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2381899

It appears that Ubuntu/Mint/Redhat ETC will only install following the instructions on the above link.
Before setting up my desktop using the configuration in that link. I have tried RedHat/Ubuntu and Mint and every reboot was risky. I have reloaded 4 times in 6 months. The odd thing was it would reboot and about half the time Linux would start to come up then the screen would go black and the machine would reboot on its own. I may have 2 issues. One, the Disk misconfiguration and Two, using a video driver that was not functioning properly.