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August 26th, 2020 14:00
Dell Latitude E6220 Ubuntu Install Problems
I'm looking for help after spending a couple of afternoons looking and failing to find a solution to my problem.
I have an old Latitude E6220 PC that has had a new 125GB solid state hard drive installed and Windows 10 has been installed on the drive. I want to dual boot to Ubuntu which is something I have done many times before on other PCs I have in the house but never on this laptop.
No matter what settings I change I cannot get a Ubuntu Live USB to show up as a boot option under the Legacy boot choices. The only choices are HDD and NIC.
Info:
Bios is A02
There is no Secure Boot options anywhere in the Bios
Read about switching from Raid to ACHI but when I do this the USB drive is not found and Windows fails to boot!
When I insert a Windows Live USB (Install / Recovery USB) this is seen by PC and it appars as an option in the Legacy boot choices
When I insert a CloudReady Live USB this is seen by the PC and it appears as an option in the Legacy boot choices
Changing between UEFI and Legacy in Bios does make the Ubuntu USB appear.
I am using the same type of USB drives in all 3 examples
I have created the Ubuntu USB drive in Windows and Ubuntu with MBR and GPT and FAT32 and NTFS and see no changes
As the PC is seeing the other drives it suggests to me that there is some sort of flag or label on the Windows and CloudReady USB drive that is not on the Unbutnu drive but I don't know how to identify what it is.
I'd be very grateful of some help as I've made no progress since I started looking into this.
roundhay
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August 28th, 2020 18:00
Followed this guide and installed Ubuntu to duel boot with Windows 10, no issues, now have duel boot system
https://www.tecmint.com/install-ubuntu-alongside-with-windows-dual-boot/
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August 28th, 2020 20:00
Great, if you could mark my solution or your problem or your answer that would be great.
good job btw.
A51-06
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August 27th, 2020 05:00
You have a pretty outdated BIOS so id recommend updating that.
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=jy3c7&oscode=wlh&productcode=latitude-e6220
Did you properly reformat the USB drive for the Ubuntu Install that is going to be booted from?
And did you reset your BIOS to its default settings and update it so you can get secure boot enabled?
roundhay
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August 27th, 2020 13:00
I have not updated the Bios but I will do this. The Important information section of the latest Bios for the E6220 which is A14 https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=jy3c7&oscode=wlh&productcode=latitude-e6220
states:
If BIOS version A01 or any earlier version is currently installed on your system, you must first update to BIOS version A02 before installing the latest update.
A02 BIOS link: : https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=9207V
- If BIOS version A03 is currently installed on your system, you must first update to BIOS version A04 before installing the latest update.
A04 BIOS link: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=64F9R
This seems to suggest it is OK to upgrade from A02 and A04 to A14 but not from A01 and A03, is this correct? Can I juts upgrade directly from A02 to A14?
The Ubuntu USB drive seems to of been formatted correctly, I formatted it as FAT32 as I have done in the past. I used Rufus in windows and Ubuntu start disk creator and neither method work. I have not read anything that seems to indicate doing anything special?
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August 27th, 2020 15:00
It’s fine if you upgrade from A02 to A14.
roundhay
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August 28th, 2020 09:00
I have manged to get a Unbuntu USB drive to boot. The steps I carried out were:
I updated the Bios to A14 without issue, applied the default settings in the Bios
I used Rufus in Windows 10 to create the Ubuntu USB drive. I used GPT and UEFI - this failed to work but I got a Bio error message saying there was no bootable USB.
I then search Ubutnu forums and found this discussion:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2299040
When I ran the script below on my Ubuntu PC with the USB drive inserted:
The output looked like this
Using gparted I changed the flag from msftdata to boot and ran the script again, the output changed and looked like the one below:
I then went back to my Windows 10 E6220 laptop, inserted the USD drive, turned on the power and hit f12 to enter the one time boot menu. In the UEFI boot options there was a new option UEFI: INT13(,0c81) which I had not seen before. I choose this option and the grub menu came up and I could run Ubuntu from the USB drive.
Now on to the next step to set up a dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu.
At least I now know that I can install Unbuntu on this PC if I need to.
I hope this helps others
Much more difficult than the none UEFI old systems I have used in the past.