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Dual boot Ubuntu 18.10 in Dell G5 15

Preparing windows for installation

  1. open msconfig.exe and set safeboot minimal
  2. Reboot and hit F2 to enter the BIOS.
  3. Change the SATA mode to AHCI.;
  4. Disable Secure Boot; Save and reboot
  5. After Windows successfully boots into Safe Mode, disable Safe Mode with msconfig.exe

Things to do in Ubuntu during installation

  1. In this installation we install ubuntu in separate hard drive.
  2. set /root primary partition, /swap and /home logical partition.

Things to do in Ubuntu after installation

  1. Press e and edit grub. Replace quite splash to nomodeset.
  2. Login Ubuntu. Install nvidia drivers from Software and update. Reboot. Have fun!

External screen no detected problem

  1. Install nvidia-dirver-390 and xserver
  2. sudo apt autoremove; sudo apt autoclean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
  3. Install lightdm
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