Issues regarding dual booting Ubuntu 19 with Windows 10 on my laptop

Question

Heya!

Recently, I've been trying to dual boot Ubuntu 19 and Windows 10 onto my laptop by creating a live USB of the OS and installing it directly onto my laptop. I've successfully shrunk down the C:/ drive on my computer to make room for new partitions to be created, and I've disabled secure boot (I heard that helped lol). While this process works on my desktop just fine (I've been able to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10 onto it without any issues), whenever I try to do the same on my laptop, it always returns the error "grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install" when it tries to install grub2. Does anyone know of a way to fix this issue?

If any information about my laptop is needed (related to its hardware and such) or if more information on how I'm going through the installation is needed, just let me know.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Are you installing the Ubuntu OS onto an EFI System partition?

This link might be helpful:

https://askubuntu.com/a/891904

Answer 2

Aymane Boukrouh
Whoops, sorry, wrong tutorial haha. This should be the one - https://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-1404-dual-boot-mode-windows-8-81-uefi/

Answer 3

David Carroll
Thanks for the link! The most I've actually done with my partitions was make some free space for it, so I've just been letting the computer create the partitions needed when installing the OS. I guess I should try and manually set up the partitions?

Answer 4

Aymane Boukrouh
Yup, UEFI boot should be enabled on my laptop

Answer 5

I've mostly just been following this tutorial - https://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-dual-boot-mode-windows/ - although, on step 4, instead of selecting "Something Else," I just selected an option labeled "Install Ubuntu Alongside Windows 10."

Answer 6

Have you tried Googling the problem? Or tried SO?

Answer 7

Sorry for the late reply, today's been a little busy haha

Sonic
I've definitely tried searching it up, but it's been really difficult finding a solution which works. I usually do look into stuff myself but this was the one problem that I could not find a solution for the life of me lol

Aymane Boukrouh
I may try to look into other distros, but I think I should be able to figure out how to fix the problem as I was able to get it working fine on another computer. It's definitely an issue with my laptop, so hopefully there should be a solution which works well (there seems to be a couple, which is good).

David Carroll
I tried out what was suggested in the forum, but I was just left with an error haha. Because I already have Windows 10 installed on my system, an EFI file system partition already exists so I couldn't create another one. I've heard that there may be ways of splitting my harddrive to fix that, but I'd need to look into that a little more. Do you have any suggestions, by any chance?

Answer 8

Is UEFI boot enabled ?

Answer 9

Faisal you said that you were using UEFI, so this tutorial will not work, it's for BIOS. There is a link in the same page you sent for UEFI boot. I don't know if you have already done it, but you should make sure which boot mode you're using

Answer 10

Faisal I'm pretty certain the link I shared will solve your problem. Have you tried it out yet?

Answer 11

What have you tried so far ?

Answer 12

Faisal I searched a bit yesterday and found some solutions on stackoverflow. It seems that it is a common bug with Ubuntu. I don't know if you have tried using the methods provided in stackoverflow. Also, these kind of problems can have many reasons, so even tho I have solved it on my own laptop, it does not mean the same method would work on yours.
I know this is not what you want, but maybe try another distro other than Ubuntu ?

Answer 13

Faisal, the main reason I don't dual boot is because how tricky this boot mode can be.

Try different tutorials, youtube would probably be better for these kind of things, try them out, one of them has to work

Answer 14

My laptop as broke up...I have too get another one, but pls what is Ubuntu all about?