HPE DL325 Gen10 Plus

JRC-HPe — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:00:17 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am trying to setup an HPE DL325 Gen10 Plus. I have the NVMe drive enablement kit in the thing (HPE NS204i-p Gen10+ Boot Controller, with the 2 480Gb NVMe SSDs on it, configured automatically into a RAID 1) and I am trying to install Smoothwall onto it, and having all manner of issues. I decided to try and install a vanilla install of Ubuntu 20.04 onto it, just to try and work out what is going in and I am having not end of trouble with this. I get errors about issues with the storage, but it continues and installs all the data, then goes to setup Grub and errrors out with:

Error failed to register the EFI boot entry: Operation not permitted

As near as I can tell this is basically GRUB saying it cannot add the UEFI boot option into the nvram, since it is blocked. I cannot for the life of me find info on how to fix this, or what BIOS setting needs to be changed. Any ideas? If I manually add the EUFI boot option from inside the UEFI, I can get ubuntu to boot, but because of the failure during install the installer did not do any post install stuff (most noteablly creating user accounts) and therefore the install is useless to me (and no, I cannot get into single user mode either, as there is no GRUB in the boot process when this happens).

From my research, this server is certified to work with Ubuntu 20.04, and I am running the latest firmware on everything. So I am guessing this is something simple, but buried and I would greatly appreciate anyone's input on this.

Thanks in advanced for the help!

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