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1. #INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 HOW TO#
2. #INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 INSTALL#
3. #INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 WINDOWS 10#

#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 HOW TO#

Here’s how to create the startup disk with mkusb: Startup Disk Creator is not a general purpose ISO burner and it won’t work with our modified ISO file.

I created my disk on another computer running Ubuntu 18.04. If you want to make the disk on Windows 10, I suggest this tutorial for how to create a startup disk on a USB with Rufus, a free open source USB writing tool. iso file, you’re ready to make a startup disk. I’m sure it’s saved me some headache getting devices like my wifi to play nice with Ubuntu. I stumbled on this repo and I’m so glad I did. It also works for me so far with the Dell XPS 13 9380. Here you’ll find a tweaked Ubuntu 18.04 installation just for the Dell XPS 15 9570. Option #2: Use a modified ISO designed for the XPS 13/15 Note you must do this before making the start-up disk, because the disk itself is read-only. This is not the option I went with, but I’ve read multiple places that copying grub圆4.efi and renaming to mm圆4.efi should do the trick. The two methods I would recommend are: Option #1: Modify the ISO yourself It’s a known problem, and that link contains several work-arounds. The system is searching for an efi file that doesn’t exist. Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed But when I tried to boot from my Ubuntu disk with only UEFI enabled, I got the following ominous sounding error:įailed to open \EFI\BOOT\mm圆4.efi – Not Foundįailed to load image \EFI\BOOT\mm圆4.efi: Not Found

#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 INSTALL#

You have to install Ubuntu with UEFI in order to dual boot.

#INSTALL LINUX ON DELL XPS 10 WINDOWS 10#

Gotcha! Ubuntu 18.04 will only boot properly in Legacy Boot Mode but Windows 10 boots with UEFI not BIOS. However, when I tried that startup disk, I ran into the first gotcha: I started with that ISO, creating my boot disk with the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator. Unfortunately we can’t use the standard Ubuntu ISO, ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso. You’ll need a USB stick with about 2.2 GB free to create an Ubuntu startup disk. Prepare an Ubuntu Boot Diskįirst let’s create the media we’ll need in order to install Ubuntu. But at a minimum I recommend creating a restore point.

I won’t go into the details about how to do backups, there are good resources out there, including the links above. The XPS 13 ships with a recovery partition, but you can also create a recovery disk on a USB drive. So here’s a guide to how I managed to pull it off. And I couldn’t find a single resource that put together all the necessary hoops you need to jump through. There’s a couple gotcha’s that I stumbled into along the way to successfully installing Ubuntu to dual boot. Or you can be like me and buy the Windows version, blithely thinking that getting dual boot going will be as straightforward as it’s ever been. Probably the best way to dual boot on a Dell XPS 13 is to buy their developer edition with Ubuntu and then install Windows 10 from there. A complete guide for installing Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 10 on the Dell XPS 13.