vuxu.org: leto

Leto is a Beelink SER8 Mini PC with a AMD Ryzen 9 8745HS CPU (8 cores, 4.9 GHz boost, hyperthreading, AVX-512), 32G RAM, 1TB SSD (Crucial P3 Plus) and 2TB SSD (WD Black SN850X).

The naming

Leto is a goddess and the mother of Apollo and Artemis. She is the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and the sister of Asteria. […] Classical Greek myths record little about Leto other than her pregnancy and search for a place where she could give birth to Apollo and Artemis, since Hera, the wife of Zeus, in her jealousy ordered all lands to shun her and deny her shelter.

Components

Article	Price	Where from
Beelink SER8 8745HS	499.00$	Minixpc
WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 2TB	124.90€	Alternate
TOTAL	606.54€

Rough setup

Partition the disk, we adopt the same layout as hera:

mkfs.fat -F 32 -n EFI /dev/nvme0n1p1
cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks1 /dev/nvme0n1p2
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 cryptlvm


lvcreate -n swap -L 16G ssd
lvcreate -n root -L 128G ssd
lvcreate -n home -L 256G ssd
lvcreate -n data -L 512G ssd


mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/ssd-root
mkfs.ext4 -L home /dev/mapper/ssd-home
mkfs.ext4 -L data /dev/mapper/ssd-data
mkswap -L swap /dev/mapper/ssd-swap


mount /dev/mapper-ssd-root /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

We need to set GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y in /etc/default/grub. Ensure the grub.cfg does some unlocking to check if it worked.
Video RAM is configurable in BIOS: Advanced -> AMD CBS -> NBIO -> GFX -> iGPU configuration.

Issues

The analog audio outputs are far too quiet, this seems to be an known issue with the Realtek ALC897 chip used (also with Beelink SER6, Beelink SER7). Using a USB audio dongle for now. :/

Second SSD

I added a WD Black SN850X to the second M.2 slot (curiously it appears as nvme0).

Moving the volumes was rather easy with LVM:

    vgextend ssd /dev/mapper/cryptssd2
    pvmove -n root /dev/mapper/luks-... /dev/mapper/cryptssd2
    pvmove -n home /dev/mapper/luks-... /dev/mapper/cryptssd2
    pvmove -n swap /dev/mapper/luks-... /dev/mapper/cryptssd2
    # umount /data
    vgsplit ssd ssd2 /dev/mapper-luks-...
    # remount /data from new VG

Changelog

05nov2024: initial setup.
04dec2024: audio issues.
07dec2024: second SSD.