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March 2nd, 2017 18:00
reinstalling Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell Precision 5520
So like many, I failed to create a recovery partition when I received my new Dell Precision 5520 with Ubuntu 16.04. Then I tried to install Gnome (which is so much better than the stock Unity, haha) and stupidly deleted key packages in the process.
So to my issue. How does one install the dell-bto-xenial-berlinetta-p-mlk-A00-iso-20161114-0.iso available on the Dell website? The BIOS boot sequence editor does not recognize the thumb drive with this ISO image burned onto it. Stock Ubuntu ISO bootable images are recognized by the BIOS, but they can't get me to an install that doesn't hang after a ""cryptsetup: xxxxx_crypt set up successful" message.
Do I literally have to burn the ISO to a CD/DVD as the instructions state?
Thanks for any pointers.
ottobonn
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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.
ejahn_
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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.
drjohnson1984
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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.
Sebastien Deleuze
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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?
Sebastien Deleuze
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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?
flacfan
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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