Brix mini Pc - embedded CPU - not supported?

Hi people,
I m wondering if the Compatibility test results are declaring my workstation as “Game Over” ?
…or if there is still some possible work arround for me to run Clear linux some day on this Brix…
(havent downloaded it yet)

Currently dual booting on W10 + Linux Mint :

Tool Test results :
:~/Tele/intel$ ./clear-linux-check-config.sh host
Checking if host is capable of running Clear Linux* OS
SUCCESS: 64-bit CPU (lm)
SUCCESS: Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (ssse3)
SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.1 (sse4_1)
SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.2 (sse4_2)
SUCCESS: Advanced Encryption Standard instruction set (aes)
SUCCESS: Carry-less Multiplication extensions (pclmulqdq)
FAIL: EFI firmware

:~/Tele/intel$ ./clear-linux-check-config.sh container
Checking if host is capable of running Clear Linux* OS in a container
SUCCESS: 64-bit CPU (lm)
SUCCESS: Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (ssse3)
SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.1 (sse4_1)
SUCCESS: Streaming SIMD Extensions v4.2 (sse4_2)
SUCCESS: Advanced Encryption Standard instruction set (aes)
SUCCESS: Carry-less Multiplication extensions (pclmulqdq)
SUCCESS: Virtualisation support (vmx)
SUCCESS: Kernel module kvm
SUCCESS: Kernel module kvm_intel
FAIL: Nested KVM support

Workstation details :
System: Host: Brix6100 Kernel: 4.15.0-65-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.2.4 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Laptop Mobo: GIGABYTE model: MKLP3AP-00 v: 1.x serial:
UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: F4 date: 12/08/2015
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-6100U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake
rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 18432
Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500 4: 500
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1916
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 8.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.8 compat-v: 3.1
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d70
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-65-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f040
bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:1570
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 8086:3165
IF: wlp1s0 state: down mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 712.25 GiB (51.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial:
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB
serial:
Partition: ID-1: / size: 191.39 GiB used: 115.08 GiB (60.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5

Thanks for any possible work arround… :wink:

This isn’t relevant if you want to install on the system. You can ignore this entire section.

Your system is supported, but, you need to boot using UEFI. Check your BIOS for a BOOT MENU, and use it to select the UEFI USB STICK to boot the clearlinux installation USB image.

Right now your system is booted with legacy, which is not supported.

Oh, great, cool news. I ll download it therefore…
Yes, noticed one as to play with the Uefi config to make it works…
Thanks for hte quick reply…

*just lost an excuse to get a new PC ! :smile:

Aouchh,Good & Bad news game…
its booting live but cant install…

Its seems CL require one to start messing up with Partitions for dual/triple boot…

Despite whatit says…CL Instaler doesn t see my empty - or unformated - partition and keep requesting a full disk erase…

:thinking:

Terii,
Did you see the documentation on dual booting Clear Linux? I just thought this might help you.

https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/tutorials/multi-boot/dual-boot-win.html

It requires unpartitioned space, not empty partitions or unformatted partitions.

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If you are installing a new computer, perhaps consider installing Clear Linux OS first?

No I didnt, I googled about dualboot and read a Topic about some users trials.
These Doc wil help muich more…
thanks thomas

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Yep, I ll read some doc - installed another HD to try that more safely, so far so good…

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Hello;
now; using dual Boot but with only Linux Distribs.
somehow switching requires bios setting but thats ok like this:
tks