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March 22nd, 2017 15:00

You might need to create a live USB drive using the ISO file. If you have a working Ubuntu system (or can live boot) then use the "USB Image Writer" to make a bootable drive. I don't think it is sufficient to image the ISO file directly to the flash drive.

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March 22nd, 2017 19:00

I had created a live bootable CD image with Ubuntu's "Startup Disk Creator".  This did end up working in the end, with some additional BIOS settings changes.

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May 2nd, 2017 09:00

I was able to create a bootable usb using rufus (at least for the embedded PC 3000).  The problem I ran into was after installation.  apt-get update does not work.  It points only to a cdrom which does not exist.  I had to manually modify /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dell.list to include 'deb dell.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial'

Then I had to go to 'Software & Updates', select this as the server, and then check the archives I wanted (main restricted universe).  Then I could get apt-get update to work.  

June 1st, 2017 02:00

Same issue here, the dell-bto-xenial-berlinetta-p-mlk-A00-iso-20161114-0.iso seems non-bootable. Could you please fix this?

June 1st, 2017 08:00

I have been digging more in this issue, and I suspect 2 issues.

First, the "id:17 type:Hidden HPFS/NTFS" partion type we get seems weird since from my knowledge UEFI boot only supports fat32.

Seeing that I tried legacy boot but then I got an error about corrupted files just after boot. So I decided to check with md5sum 2 different dell-bto-xenial-berlinetta-p-mlk-A00-iso-20161114-0.iso downloaded files and both seems  corrupted.

md5sum -c --quiet md5sum.txt

./.disk/casper-uuid: FAILED

./boot/grub/efi.img: FAILED

./boot/grub/grub.cfg: FAILED

./casper/initrd.lz: FAILED

./casper/vmlinuz: FAILED

./casper/vmlinuz.efi: FAILED

md5sum: WARNING: 6 lines are improperly formatted

md5sum: WARNING: 6 computed checksums did NOT match

Could you please make at least a non corrpuped version and if possible an UEFI compatible one?

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August 29th, 2017 10:00

I have a similar problem with Precision 7520 but I suspect the issues is with the ISO.

I downloaded dell-bto-xenial-precision-7720-7520-kbl-A02-iso-20170330-1.iso and also generated an ISO with Dell Recovery v1.48ubuntu2.

Created USB startup disk with both but neither boots.

I also tried to boot from the ISO's with VM and that fails as well so I doubt it has much to do with the BIOS settings

Standard Ubuntu images boot fine.

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Release: 16.04

Codename: xenial

uname -r

4.4.0-93-generic

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