- Jun 9, 2014
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Hello, I've been having a he** of a time trying to get my recently purchased used Dell xps 13 working. I bought it privately and it does not have a current warranty.
It came with Windows 10 Pro and problems started happening from the beginning...Shutting down completely when I close the lid, shutting down when I insert a USB device, telling it to sleep causes it to shut down, etc.
I figured these were driver issues, and I wanted Linux anyway so I am now trying to install Linux Mint 18.1.
I just flashed the bios successfully to the current version, and I am booting in Legacy Boot mode.
Now when I boot from my Live USB, Install Linux Mint goes through the installation, then at the end it says
"Sorry, an error occured and it was not possible to install the bootloader at the specified location.
How would you like to proceed?
1) choose a different device to install the bootloader on
2) Continue without a bootloader
3)Cancel the installation"
No matter which option I click, the "continue" button just clicks and does nothing. I can't even X the error window out. It is just frozen with these 3 options and no buttons do anything.
I think it either has something to do with the boot mode or The fact that the hard drive is an nvme SSD?
I used Gparted to totally erase the SSD to "unallocated" and retried and I am still getting the same error.
Would I get the same error if I tried another distro?
It came with Windows 10 Pro and problems started happening from the beginning...Shutting down completely when I close the lid, shutting down when I insert a USB device, telling it to sleep causes it to shut down, etc.
I figured these were driver issues, and I wanted Linux anyway so I am now trying to install Linux Mint 18.1.
I just flashed the bios successfully to the current version, and I am booting in Legacy Boot mode.
Now when I boot from my Live USB, Install Linux Mint goes through the installation, then at the end it says
"Sorry, an error occured and it was not possible to install the bootloader at the specified location.
How would you like to proceed?
1) choose a different device to install the bootloader on
2) Continue without a bootloader
3)Cancel the installation"
No matter which option I click, the "continue" button just clicks and does nothing. I can't even X the error window out. It is just frozen with these 3 options and no buttons do anything.
I think it either has something to do with the boot mode or The fact that the hard drive is an nvme SSD?
I used Gparted to totally erase the SSD to "unallocated" and retried and I am still getting the same error.
Would I get the same error if I tried another distro?
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