I’ve a Lenovo P3 Gen2 Tiny which I have been attempting to install IncusOS on.
The system has 2 nvme drive, the first being the factory Windows 11 and the second which I am thinking to install IncusOS onto.
I went through the IncusOS image downloader and flashed the .img to a UFD and placed the incus KEK and DB where they need to be and have TPM2 + Secureboot both active.
I cleared the TPM data before booting the UFD for good measure.
I didn’t remove any keys since they simply consist of the basic Lenovo PK, KEK & DB + Microsoft KEK + DB. (and now the Incus KEK & DB)
The entire error shown at the install screen is:
“ERROR a partition already exists on device ‘/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-Samsung_SSD_9100_PRO_2TB_S7YCNJ0L312937W’, and ‘ForceInstall’ from install configuration isn’t true”
I snapped a picture of the journal as it flashes every 10 seconds or so while in this state.. Basically parrot of the above message.
I’ll start by strongly recommending against running IncusOS on a system that’s also running a different OS. While in theory this can work, especially with Windows 11 you’re going to have two different OSes fighting over control of the TPM when they boot. That’s just going to cause headaches.
The error you’re getting is caused by IncusOS detecting existing partitions on the target drive. The installer can force-install to that target device, but you need to set an additional seed value to enable that. This guards against accidentally wiping an unexpected drive (for example, your Windows 11 install).
Double-check that IncusOS is configured for the correct drive, and from the web UI check “Wipe the target drive”. Again, make sure the correct target drive is specified, because IncusOS will overwrite all data on that drive without any additional prompts during install.
Ah, I was thinking about that ‘wipe target’ but I interpreted that as being specific to overwriting an existing IncusOS on the target.
Hmm. I’m not versed on the TPM, thanks for the heads-up on that! I’ll need to consider more my multi-boot plan I guess. The idea was to have a 3 or more bootable operating systems.
Presently, this being a new system I have been tinkering with it and confirming that I dislike windows 11 in equal measure worse than 10 than I disliked that from 8.1 and so on. .. this is my first and only 11 machine so kind of a pickle.. I have some business software that will soon eliminate functionality on 10 so incus on this may just be a test run anyhow.
The odd part I failed to mention previously is that, while yes there was an OS on that second nvme initially, I did delete all the partitions, cleared the boot sector and the IncusOS installation continued to insist there were existing partitions for some reason.
I was thinking that the install process would prompt with the option to destroy the existing partitions and proceed with installation… but then, I guess it really didn’t know if there was anything there or not.
.. this is my first and only 11 machine so kind of a pickle.. I have some business software that will soon eliminate functionality on 10 so incus on this may just be a test run anyhow.