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I am completely new to dual booting Ubuntu with Windows and Linux in general. Now I just downloaded Ubuntu 22.04.4 with Rufus and did the disk partitioning of 30 GB (went safe) and everything that all the guides told me to. But after starting Linux and getting to the "Try or Install Ubuntu" screen and pressing enter my computer just gets a permanent terminal error screen after like 10 seconds. The error message is:

i915 0000:00:02.0: 
Your graphics device 7d55 is not properly supported by i915 in this kernel version.  
To force driver probe anyway, use i915.force_probe=7d55.

Nothing I press on the terminal screen does anything. I can only manually power down the laptop and the run Windows.

I have no idea how to do the "force driver" thing. Anyone have a very dumbed down step-by-step guide as to how to force the driver without already having ubuntu only having windows?

The terminal screen that gets stuck edit 1: I tried 23.10, it boots into a loading screen with HP logo and ubuntu logo at the bottom but is stuck there as well. Waited for at least 20 min. and saw no progress so i don't think that works either.

edit 2: I tried 24.04. daily build and it didn't work either. The daily build of 24.04 filename: "noble-desktop-amd64.iso" did not work. Where do I write "i1915.force_probe=7d55" so i can try forcing driver on 22.04.4? And pls dumb it down as much as y'all can, i'd greatly appreciate it

edit 3: As @emk2203 pointed out my description of 24.04 wasn't very fulfilling so I tried booting 24.04 after the comment to have a description for the problems. I entered grub and pressed "Try or Install Ubuntu". After waiting 41 min. on one screen(I timed it) that didn't show any errors I could see(see image 2)image 2 I retried again, now writing "nomodeset" after "quick splash" in grub(read some articles about graphics driver bypassing). This made the process progress a bit, but now it got stuck on a new screen that read "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system". I put the USB in and out, used an adapter, and tried it all again, but still no luck.

The interactive netboot from a URL didn't work either. I just pressed enter for all the prompts for the default answers but it just ended up writing "dhcpcd exited" and then freezing

If anyone has any solution please let me know. I've spent so many hours because of this Intel Arc thing

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I used "i915.force_probe=7d55" after writing it in grub with both 22.04.4 and 24.04(daily build). Neither worked. Both got stuck at the "live file system" error or just another terminal screen without any obvious errors. I used another USB that just dual booted and it showed same error with the daily build from 16/03/2024

I think I'll wait till 24.04 LTS releasing 24 April 2024 and just use VMware or WSL2 until that. Thanks for the help everyone, I'll try and update this if it works.

Jamari
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Ubuntu 24.04.1. That was the answer for me. From all the research i could do it seems that 22.04 just isn't compatible with intel arc 380 or the integrated graphics that the pc was advertised with. So noble numbat(linux 24.04.1) was the solution. I believe the 22.04.4 standard kernel wasn't compatible with my laptop. You can look at my other post to see that I had multiple problems beacuse of the same thing.

It took like 2 minutes of total black screen though. Don't panic. Maybe even give it more. After that my ubuntu finally just booted up like it was supposed and then things were mostly smooth sailing

Make sure it's 24.04.1 tho and not just 24.04 which didn't work for me. Downloading 24.04.1 made it completely like all the dual boot youtube videos show.

Jamari
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