I recently purchased the dell inspiron 7391. I bought over the Microsoft surface (witch I owned in the past and ran linux on) because the surface lineup has notorious bad linux compatibility. but so far I can't figure out how to get this machine to run linux at all.
The pc finds the install usb fine, and when I select it I can get into the install menu. But I can’t get through the actual install process. It just gets stuck. And when I try the live usb feature I can’t get past the black screen with a little – in the top left corner.
I have tried all the standard solutions, secure boot on or off messed around with the UEFI settings but no luck. i checked if my usb is bootable at all on two other machines and it sure is (ubuntu 19:10 and 18:04)
I’ve also followed up on the advice to set my ssd to AHCI mode but no change there either.
So any suggestions would be great. Maybe the machine is just to new? Should I wait? Or download some experimental kernel?

Thanks in advance.

arthur_CC,

Your hardware is very new with the Intel Core i7-10510U:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-....430586.0.html

The latest stable kernel is 5.3.11:
https://www.kernel.org/

The previous 5.2 version has claimed support for Comet Lake CPUs:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/...ernel-features

Kernel 5.3.1 is available on Arch Linux:
https://news.softpedia.com/news/firs...gallery_moreon

It may also be worth having a look at Arch-based Manjaro:
https://manjaro.org/

arthur_CC,

I have just installed Manjaro-xfce-18.1.3 in VirtualBox and I can confirm that it is using kernel 5.3.11-1.

https://manjaro.org/download/

thank you beachboy2,

ill suppose ill have to wait a bit and hope for the best. ill go and test a bit today ill update any progress.

Manjaro runs, but its ferry buggy. but a good firs step, if anyone has found some other promising distro's with kernal 5.3.11 lets me know.

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arthur_CC,

At least you have got your dell 7391 running using Manjaro.

Things can only get better as time goes by.

hey guys I managed to get Linux mint 19.2, which is based on Ubuntu, running, with all of the hardware components running properly. This is what I did.

1. download the new dell bios update Dell Inspiron 7391/7591/7791 System BIOS
from https://www.dell.com/support/home/de...laptop/drivers

2. Install linux mint using live usb. https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=267

3. This linux distro comes with an old kernel, 4.XX or something. Use Ukuu to install a new kernel. I tried different versions and 5.3.11 is the only one that worked out of the box.

Btw, you can also try something like https://gist.github.com/Links2004/59...c3ff98d03c0f61. amazing!

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