Yeah, figured you were already at that point. Just checking.
It’s been awhile since I used ROCK. Is there an ROCK option to completely reformat ROCK boot drive or to just delete ROCK OS from drive?
If there is any option like that then disconnect SSD, reconnect HDD to use as boot drive and delete ROCK OS from the HDD. Reconnect SSD as boot and you’re good to go.
If the problem is that ROCK is still on the HDD that should take care of it.
Otherwise, have to wait for support. Support might want to see your logs to figure out why the kernel panic.
From what I can see ROCK doesn’t have any OS functionality to format etc
I’m tinkered out tonight but will a) wait and see what support might say then b) boot from USB and properly format the HDD for Linux rather than ROCK though I have no Linux experience I’ll have to tread lightly so I don’t screw up my SSD
If everything installs as it should, you would eventually get the ROCK administration GUI. On this page there will be a small section for “Internal Music Storage”, and that gives you the option to format the installed drive.
However, it sounds like you aren’t getting that far with the install. I don’t know enough to help you here, but maybe some of the more technically inclined users from the “MOCK” area can help you out (MOCK as you may know are the ROCK builds on nonconforming hardware).
Next time you start tinkering, I have something for you to check.
Since you have ROCK installed on both drives, perhaps you’re not booting from the drive you think you are.
Getting into BIOS, probably by pressing DEL or F1 at startup, will tell you what your boot drive is.
With both drives hooked up, you want the SSD, of course…
I’m currently running Roon server on a similar machine using with a 60 gig SSD for Roon using Snakeoil OS, based on Ubuntu server, see https://www.snakeoil-os.net/
Don’t take any notice of the name, works very well.
So I’m going to take the plunge and install a 2TB SSD into my MOCK and consolidate all my files onto that, keeping the current USB HDD drives as backups.
This should future-proof my storage considerations, giving me lots of spare capacity and hopefully last forever if it’s essentially a write-once disk.
You should consider the drive height when you get the SSD drive. The standard Nuc allows 2.5 inch drives, not higher. If your needs changed and you wanted to upgrade to a Nuc, it would be nice to be able to re-use the drive.
Of course by then 2TB SSD may be $35.
Sure - it’ll be a 2.5" - I’m hoping this beast will last a while - I may repaste the heat-sink on the processor and replace the fans just to completely refresh it. By the time it needs replacing I hope it’s the NUC that will be $35!!!
