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I have a new Dell XPS-15 9570 with Windows 10 home installed. I want to install Ubuntu 18 as the host OS (not a dual boot) on the SSD. I have a Ubuntu 18 bootable USB that I've used before to install Ubuntu 18 on an older desktop successfully.

I boot from the USB (press F12 during start up) and select Install Ubuntu. The Ubuntu desktop is displayed with a Install Ubuntu icon. I double click on this and the installation starts. When the process gets to where I partition storage the only device displayed is /dev/sda which is the bootable USB memory stick. The displayed text is "device for boot loader installation". The Ubuntu installer doesn't recognize the SSD where I want to install it.

Is this the UEFI BIOS on the new laptop preventing me from installing Ubuntu on the SSD? If so what do I have to do to install Ubuntu on the SSD. (I want to reformat the SSD as part of the Ubuntu installation.)

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  • Is the SSD MBR or GPT? If it's unallocated then it should be detected in both Legacy and UEFI mode.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Feb 21, 2019 at 14:55
  • You probably need to reformat the SSD.
    – fpmurphy
    Commented Feb 22, 2019 at 3:16

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I had to create a new bootable USB stick with Ubuntu 18.04.2. Version 18.04 didn't work. This seems to be the biggest factor.

The bios settings that had to be changed:

SATA: AHCI

POST FastBoot: Minimal

Ubuntu 18.04.2 seems to work fine with secure boot. More discussion can be found here.

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