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January 11th, 2019 22:00
G3-15(3579) how to upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 pre-installed ?
Hello,
I've bought this very fine laptop for Christmas. Perfect.
It came with Ubuntu 16.04 installed on the SSD and a virgin 1TB HD.
It replaced an old Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04.so I would like to switch from 16.04 to 18.04.
Alas, all my attempts have somewhat failed either with a lot of ilwifi and ACPI errors and a non functioning Nvidia/Intel switching. I won't bore you with the description of my failed attempts and restore from the DVD I made when I got the laptop... but I would like to get a procedure to follow and/or some pointers.
I will be very grateful to all of you !
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
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ozp11
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January 27th, 2019 12:00
I'm looking for the same issue, but with a hybrid HD, but I want to install a SSD
davsir
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April 2nd, 2019 13:00
I am anxious to update my dell g3 to Ubuntu 18.04
LameLinuxLover
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January 23rd, 2020 00:00
Well you can do this by installing any available new Ubuntu release.
But be cautious with the "nouveau" kernel module since it causes various problems during the system boot.
In tested Ubuntu releases since 16.04 - 16.04.6 up to 19.04.2 and only 16.04 didn't have any problems during the boot.
But it has kinda old kernel version 4.05 which does not have the required wifi driver and firmware.
So you need to choose any distribution with the kernel version higher than 4.14 (you can try any Ubuntu start from 16.04.5 and higher) to support the wifi card.
The installing process of the new OS must be preceding by switching off the 'nouveau' kernel module in grub boot menu by adding nouveau.modeset=0 parameter into the grub params like
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quite spash nouveau.modeset=0"
It will prevent opensource nvidia 'nouveau' driver from loading and the system will boot without freezing.
Than during the first boot enter the recovery mode as root and disable nouveau module from loading
echo blacklist nouveau >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
update-initramfs -u
reboot
That's it. Now the system must be able to boot safely without freezing.
And one more thing about proprietary nvidia-driver I'd not recommend install it prior the nvidia-detect application gives the sensible output. When I tried to run it it didn't suggest any drivers and just hang.