1. Dell Xps 13 9370 Dual Boot

In addition to the steps outlined in, which helped me through the installation process, I had to manually add the boot entry to the boot menu before I was able to open GRUB and continue booting after installation.To do this, I followed; open up the BIOS, go to Boot Sequence, click 'Add Boot Option' and using the file selector, pick the file shimx64.efi in 'EFI/ubuntu'. Move your newly created boot option to the top of the list.Save and you should be able to select your newly added option. Press 'e' to update the Ubuntu option and add nouveau.modeset=0 after splash. This allowed me to finally boot in to Ubuntu 15.10.

I have been trying to install Ubuntu on my new laptop:. Dell XPS 15 (9570). Windows 10 Home 64bit English. 8th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H Processor (9M Cache, up to 4.1 GHz, 6 cores). 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 2666MHz. 256GB M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive. NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5I began by trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using an 8GB USB drive.

The first issue I ran into was getting frozen on the bootup screen on the fourth dot. After a couple tries, I plugged in my monitor (through HDMI) and it stopped getting stuck all of a sudden.Next, I tried to go through the installation and when I clicked on restart now, my computer froze and I had to shut it down manually and start it back up again. At this point I got to the login screen and logged in but after entering my password it got stuck on a purple screen with my mouse pointer (which was frozen).

Dell Xps 13 9370 Dual Boot

I was able to get into a shell at this point (with ctrl+ alt+ f4) and attempted to run sudo apt-get install nvidia-390 but this froze when it reached building initial module for 4.15.0-22-generic and upon reboot I had to run sudo dpkg -remove -a.I was unable to work around this so I attempted to install Ubuntu 16.04 which I could only do by adding acpi=off to the boot configuration (which by the way, I had a lot of trouble getting to since GRUB usually flashed in and then immediately disappeared and only occasionally would it stick around long enough for me to use). But when I try to boot up now, I never reach the screen with the five dots and instead immediately get stuck on a purple screen (with no mouse pointer).I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04 and am back to being stuck on the log-in screen.What should I do?

Have you updated UEFI from Dell? Even if new computer there may be newer UEFI. And did you turn RAID off and change drives to AHCI. But be sure to add AHCI driver into Windows first. Also turn off fast boot in UEFI so you have time to press keys when booting. You will need nomodeset to boot until you get newest nVidia driver installed.

Do not download from Dell, but use ppa. Dell XPS 13 9360 16.04 worked after nvme firmware & BIOS update, 16.10 did not, new rEFInd for NVMe–May 31 '18 at 20:45. I've summarized all of this into a blog postI struggled with this as well. What ended up working for me is as follows, note I installed Ubuntu 18.04:.Follow the first part of this doc - in regards to bios settings and changing the windows partition from raid to ahci. This will allow you to boot the live CD. Note, I did end up having to enter my windows key to unlock the drive after I did this to get back into windows.Install Ubuntu normally.JackJack96 did a fabulous job scripting all setup and package installation steps here. The primary purpose of those scripts is to generate an image with the packages already installed, but he does provide a script to set things up on a existing installation.

After you boot for the first time, open terminal and run the following: sudo apt install curlsudo bash -c '$(curl -fsSL prime-select intelThis forces the use of the intel integrated graphics, no need to waste battery. I have not tested running the nvidia card.

If you want to, run: sudo prime-select nvidia. The last issue I ran into was the screen would start flickering. I solved this by changing the resolution to 2048 x 1152 and setting the refresh rate to 59.91.

At first I did have it set at 3840 x 1152, with the lowest refresh rate, but it was still a little unstable, so I dropped the resolution. It's basically the same as running 4k and scaling up to 250% - which is the default. Side note, I owned an XPS 10 years ago, and ran into this same issue.why is it still happening?I've been running this setup for a couple days and it mostly works. The screen does occasionally freak out when I plug in the power, still need to work that out.Lastly, one tweak that was icing on the cake was installing.Last but not least, back up your image so if you break something you can restore it: sudo dd if=/dev/nvme0n1p2 conv=sync,noerror bs=64K status=progress gzip -c backup.img.gzMake sure to replace nvme0n1p2 with the proper partition. You can check it by running: df -hMy advice is to do this on a fresh install.

You end up installing and configuring so many different things when trying to get things working, and that will ensure you don't have any issues.Update 1:Screen flickering/crashing continues. Did some digging and it appears to be a bug with linux kernel.

I updated my kernel to 4.12-generic by doing the following: git clone git@github.com:mtompkins/linux-kernel-utilities.gitcd linux-kernel-utilitiessudo./updateubuntukernel.sh -latestNote, when you run this, you might install a newer kernel version than I did. For the moment things seem a little better, only been a couple hours though. Will update later if it stays stable.Update 2:Used the computer all day and no flickers. Kernel update seems to have done the trick.Update 3No flickering still after kernel update. I did notice an issue when suspending the laptop where it was getting very hot and not fully shutting down. I traced it to what looks to be a bug in nouveau driver: Aug 08 19:20:26 hermes kernel: Hardware name: Dell Inc. It took me a week and the help of a more hardware-savvy friend (thanks Martin!) to get my 32Gb/1Tb GeForce 1050Ti to work properly.

Now that it does, it works admirably: power management, touchpad, sound etc all work fine. One of the problems was that due to my lack of understanding of UEFI and the fact this was never a problem on my trusty XPS13, I simply erased all traces of W10 off the disk, including the EFI partition. The BIOS parameters are very critical and getting them wrong in combination with the UEFI meant that successfully booting Live USBs was a matter of chance. However, after my friend upgraded the BIOS and managed to re-create an EFI partition, booting from Live USB became possible. These are the BIOS settings:Version: 1.2.2 Boot Sequence:V ubuntu Field: ubuntuBoot list optionX Legacy External DevicesV UEFIAdvanced Boot Options:All disabledUEFI Boot Path Security:AlwaysSystem Configuration:SATA Operation AHCIDrives:V SATA-1V SATA-2V M.2 PCIe SSD-0 checkedUSB Configuration:V Enable USB Boot SupportV Enable External USB PortSecure Boot:X Secure Boot EnableSecure Boot Mode (Deployed Mode (greyed)POST Behavior:All options greyedThe next problem was that as soon as the login prompt was displayed and I typed in the password, the graphical interface froze solid. At first I thought the whole system was frozen, but I discovered that the Virtual Terminals (accessed through Fn+Alt+F2 till F6 or sometimes Ctrl+Alt+F2 till F6, this seems to vary) could be used to log in.