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I'm just trying to dual-boot my XPS and have followed the instructions by Dell here to install Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.

I've gotten as far as booting into Ubuntu on the USB drive but when I go to install it's saying there's not enough space on the drive - because it's only looking at the USB...

I've created the blank partition via Windows 10 (as per the instructions) but aren't having any luck getting Ubuntu to see it. I've configured all the BIOS settings Dell goes over, just cannot crack it. I also did a sudo fdisk -l and only the drive and a couple other 512 byte drives come up.

Any help would be muchly appreciated! I've read a bit about the drive type, it's set to RAID - would that have something to do with it?

William Masen
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For detection of NVME drive on your Dell laptop, please choose SATA Operation from "RAID" to "AHCI" in the BIOS settings. For more information, you can check following link Unable to detect PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD - Dell XPS 13 (2016)

arryph
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  • Thanks @arryph but I've read a lot of horror stories about not being able to boot back into Windows after doing this... Is this the only solution? – William Masen Nov 20 '17 at 08:00
  • Boot into windows os, run from terminal msconfig change boot settings to safeboot (just tick the safeboot option in boot settings tab), reboot to check if your windows os is booting into safeboot by default. Reboot, go to bios settings, change sata operation to AHCI and reboot, after booting into safeboot windows, you can just disable safeboot by running msconfig and un-tick safeboot as it was before. you will be able to boot into windows with new AHCI drivers. – arryph Nov 20 '17 at 08:46