Infrastructure

Installing Ubuntu 26.04 on the Geekom A9: Fixing BIOS Boot Loops and NVMe Failures

April 17, 2026

Installing Ubuntu 26.04 on the Geekom A9: Fixing BIOS Boot Loops and NVMe Failures

A practical guide to installing Ubuntu 26.04 on the Geekom A9 with Ryzen AI Max+ 395, including fixes for BIOS boot loops, NVMe failures, and network configuration issues.

Axolotl on Ubuntu 26.04 for Ryzen AI Max+ 395: ROCm 7.2, bitsandbytes and gfx1151 fixes

April 25, 2026

Axolotl on Ubuntu 26.04 for Ryzen AI Max+ 395: ROCm 7.2, bitsandbytes and gfx1151 fixes

Step-by-step fixes for Axolotl LoRA fine-tuning on a Geekom A9 with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (gfx1151) on Ubuntu 26.04: ROCm 7.2 PyTorch nightlies, building bitsandbytes from source, and the Axolotl configuration that works.

Local TLS Trust on Ubuntu 26.04: Caddy, Python, and Chrome in a Sovereign Dev Stack

May 04, 2026

Local TLS Trust on Ubuntu 26.04: Caddy, Python, and Chrome in a Sovereign Dev Stack

A practical record of the problems we encountered establishing local TLS trust across two Ubuntu machines running Caddy, Python, and Chrome — and what is required to fix each layer correctly.