This was however the first time I tried to install a Linux distro. I tried the steps above, but they did not work. One thing you will notice is that the screen size resolution on Ubuntu is pretty tiny so you might want to change the screen display 2048x1152 before continuing. Once Ubuntu is installed you can reboot and choose whether to go into windows or ubuntu as you would in a normal dual boot environment. When the machine reboots you change be presented with the Grub menu where you can install Ubuntu as per the rest of the instructions in the video. 'Apply' and save your settings and then Exit. Change the order so that Ubuntu is called before Windows Boot Manager. You will see a new entry at the top of the screen under Windows Boot Manager called ubuntu. Enter Ubuntu as the 'Boot Option Name' and then in 'File Name' click on EFI/boot/grub64. This time go to General -> Boot Sequence click on 'Add Boot Option'. Make sure you have your flash drive in your machine at this point and reenter the bios settings. In the bios settings go General -> Advanced Boot Options and click on 'Enable UEFI Network Stack'. You will be able to go to 'bios settings'. Restart the machine and press F12 when you see the Dell logo. Next we need to effect some changes to the bios:
Restart your PC once more and this time it will boot up normally but with AHCI mode activated.ĩ. Invoke a Safe Mode boot with the command: bcdedit /set safebootĨ.
As always it's not that hard once you know how :)Ģ. Hope you find it helpful - If you have any questions or comments please leave them below. To save everyone else the pain this is the definitive way to get dual boot (Windows 10 Ubuntu 16.04) working on an this Dell XPS machine. I even completely corrupted my Windows version thanks to unhelpful answer on askubuntu and ended up having to reinstall Windows :(
Having setup dual boot many times before I was not expecting this to be too difficult but I went through hours of pain, dead ends helpful and unhelpful Q&A sites and YouTube tutorials before I finally managed to get this working. (Btw you do have the option of buying the developer edition which comes pre-installed with Ubuntu but I wanted both Windows and Ubuntu and reckoned it was easier doing it this way round). I specially bought the 512GB version so that I could comfortably install Linux to dual boot with the pre-installed Windows 10. So I've just got a brand new XPS13 (i7-7500U CPU 2.70 GHz - Aug 16) - a lovely machine if you want something ultra portable. Excuse a slight departure from the normal subject of this blog.
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