#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 HOW TO#
#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 INSTALL#
#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 MANUAL#

Anyway, run once with default disk settings. The only smoking gun I saw was that itвЂ™d formatted the ESP partition ext4 I swear it has be to vfat. I dutifully made an EFI System Partition (512MB, usage вЂњEFIвЂќ), and set the rest as btrfs root.

#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 MANUAL#

In my case I wanted btrfs for / so I chose manual disk partitioning.

#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 INSTALL#

Otherwise youвЂ™ll get вЂњCanвЂ™t install grub.вЂќ Totally opaque, with no meaningful error message.

If you want a different filesystem, run the installer once with default disk settings, then go over it again.

A shadow protection MBR partition table maybe? Why the factory Windows was installed or miss-detected as BIOS-mode I donвЂ™t know either. However, setting вЂњcount=1MвЂќ in anger did, even though there are partition table backups at the end of the disk. 512 bytes (MBR partition table and stage 1 bootblocks) didnвЂ™t do it. My best solution was to wipe enough of the disk that Ubuntu didnвЂ™t detect the вЂњlegacyвЂќ Windows install. I couldnвЂ™t even kill the installer with signal 9 I assume something was stuck in disk sleep. The problem is that clicking either of the buttons on that dialog does nothing and that modal dialog stays firmly put. If you continue to install Debian in UEFI mode, it might be difficult to reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode operating system laterвЂќ. Otherwise the installer will tell you вЂњthe machineвЂ™s firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but it looks like there may be existing operating systems installed using BIOS compatibility mode.

dd /dev/zero over the first 512MB of the main /dev/nvme0n1 disk.

Oh, and actually letting it sleep and wake. Also running Chrome, which uses gfx acceleration (WebGL?). That includes running lspci to find out what the laptop is made of, which is obviously the first thing you do after youвЂ™ve bought one. Apparently anything that wakes the nVidia chipset from sleep causes these freezes to start. Otherwise youвЂ™ll get almost total freezing, with the odd moment of CPU progress now and again.

Boot the installer with kernel cmdline option вЂњnpm=0вЂќ.This is a good 10 years newer than X58 but I guess itвЂ™s a different processor erratum in the same area, because this seemed to fix it. Google reports this and fingers an X58-era firmware bug with IOMMU DMA remapping. Otherwise youвЂ™ll get вЂњrcu_sched detected expedited stalls on cpus/tasksвЂќ. Not a good look if your company owns the machine. You could be weeks with an expensive paperweight if you have to fix it the hard way. IвЂ™m not one for them normally, but so much can and did go wrong for me. I also hit a couple of kernel bugs, the best bet for which seemed to be to fail forwards. This is band new hardware, support for which wonвЂ™t necessarily get back-ported. However, IвЂ™m a developer and need cutting-edge package versions. Yes, at time of writing (Jan 18) this is very per-release, and rcasero reports lots of problems being introduced at 17.10.

(I intend to try to get clean Windows booting again from an external disk watch this space). This post will talk about building a pure Ubuntu system I donвЂ™t preserve the factory Windows or its bootloader.

#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 HOW TO#

I assume you know how to install Ubuntu on a sunny day. This may well be because I tried a super pre-release version of Ubuntu, and by the time you read this is might all be fixed. However, none of the instructions I found quite covered everything. With thanks to (9560) and many other great Google hits. In this post IвЂ™ll details the steps I (eventually) worked out to install Ubuntu 18.04 on a late 2017 Dell XPS 15'.

Install Linux On Dell Xps 10