I burnt a dvd from windows installation of 16.04 lts 64 bit. During boot, I disabled fastboot, secure boot and Intel speed step. I chose install ubuntu option, after about couple of minutes installation seems to hang, as progress animation stops. Any ideas? Just bought this laptop yesterday, I am totally stuck now. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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Thanks to very precise inputs from Zachary and some inputs from other forums, I am finally able to get Ubuntu up, still not tested much on Nvidia drivers, assuming it is okay. Following is summary of what I tried --
Problems 1> Nvidia support in Live CD 2> BIOS configuration 3>Dual boot management 4> acpi
1> Created DVD ROM ( Live CD )for 16.04 LTS from Windows ( Right click on iso, burn image ) 2> BIOS parameters -- Fast boot off, Intel Speed startup off, Secure boot off ( Hold Del while booting ) 3> Boot from Live CD/DVD, on the initial menu ( try boot, install ubuntu .. ) select try boot and press e ( could have been install ), changed the line containing linux , added noveau.modeset=0 acpi=off before quiet splash 4> Followed more or less something like following. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall During installation selected ubuntu side by side windows, did not erase windows, installed ubuntu in hard disk space suggested by installer ( two partitions around 300 + 200 ) 5> Ran boot repair from within ubuntu --https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair booted with try boot ( This was possibly not necessary as I had not checked the BIOS boot order option below earlier ) 6> To boot from ubuntu -- selected ubuntu first in BIOS boot order 7> Followed instructions to change Nvidia libs -- Graphics issues after/while installing Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 with NVIDIA graphics After this I was able to remove noveau.modeset=0 8> In BIOS select UEFI with CSM, after this I was able to remove acpi=off from boot 9> Had some problem with touch pad, it would not respond. I changed bootup numlock state to off, most likely it does not have any correlation but my touch pad is now working
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In order to get Ubuntu installed, and also working after installation, I needed to do a little song and dance with grub boot options and a package installation, while avoiding the GUI. Much of the information contained in this post was relevant to my troubleshooting: No version of Ubuntu can be installed with any Skylake 6th generation Intel processor
I did not want to complicate the driver issue with getting UEFI working, so in this example I went with using the "legacy" mode in the BIOS to boot into linux, and UEFI to boot into Windows.
I installed this version: VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" Which includes this kernel: 4.4.0-38-generic This allowed me to avoid having to recompile a 4.3+ kernel for proper support.
I had no issues with installing Ubuntu from a USB drive, and did not need to pass any boot options to the installer to get it to complete. Logging into a GUI after installation however would cause the system to lockup with a CPU getting pinned at 100% due to an lspci command.
In order to get the system functional, I took these steps:
- When presented with the lightdm login screen, I switched to a terminal (CTRL+ALT+[1-4])
- After logging in, edited the /etc/default/grub boot options to be:
splash nomodeset i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 - Edited /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and added:
i195 nvme - Updated grub configuration:
sudo update-grub - Hard reset the laptop (Hold down power button).
- Login to a terminal again, NOT the GUI.
- Apt-get update and install the nvidia-361 package:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-361. This installed the necessary firmware drivers and built the kernel modules. - Edit the /etc/default/grub boot options, and reset them to default.
- Updated grub configuration:
sudo update-grub - Reboot, and enjoy!
