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  • KDE Neon Installation on Dell XPS 15 without erasing Windows 10
    Computer/Software 2017. 6. 13. 15:53

    F2 to enter BIOS settings

    - Disable Secure Boot


    Boot to Windows 10

    - msconfig->booting->safe boot check


    Shutdown and Power On


    Enter BIOS settings

    - SATA Mode: RAID -> AHCI


    Boot to Windows 10

    - msconfig->booting->safe boot uncheck


    Reboot to Windows 10

    - Install Samsung NVMe driver

    - Extract Windows 10 Partition around 200GB with disk utility


    Shutdown

    Insert KDE Neon (or Ubuntu) Installation USB stick

    Turn on and Enter BIOS settings

    - Boot Sequence: Add Boot Option with USB stick and uncheck other options


    Boot with KDE Neon Live USB

    - Run Install

    - During partitioning,

      Create swap partition with the size of the memory.

      Create ext4 partition with mount position '/'

    - Install OS


    Here we can find an error message 'grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install'.


    So, install rEFIind.

    Download rEFInd - a binary zip file

    Unzip the file.

    Mount ESP with the root account.

    - sudo su -

    - mkdir /tmp/efi

    - mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /tmp/efi

    Copy rEFInd file. (following http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#linux)

    - cp -r ~/Download/refind /tmp/efi/EFI

    - cd /tmp/efi/EFI/refind

    - efibootmgr -c -l \\EFI\\refind\\refind_x64.efi -L rEFInd


    Reboot

    Enter BIOS settings

    - Boot Sequence: Check refind and uncheck other options.


    Reboot

    Now we can boot with Windows 10 or Linux.


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