I've just acquired recently a brand new Dell Precision Tower 5810 with preinstalled Win7 pro. It has 2 disks 4TB each. I tried to install Ubuntu 14.04 as the primary OS wiping everything from the disks but when the installation is over and I try to boot from the Ubuntu entry under UEFI mode in bios the only thing that I get is a black screen with the following options
- Press F1 to reboot
- Press F2 to reboot in to settings
- Enter or change bios settings
Steps I follow during the installation process of Ubuntu 14.04 on my machine
- Boot mode UEFI secure boot OFF
- Boot from usb drive and install normally
- At the partitioning step I choose the first option to delete everything and install Ubuntu as primary OS on drive /dev/sda
- After installation I end up with 3 partitions on /dev/sda
- 512MB efi
- 16GiB /swap
- remaining free space as /ext4 / (root)
After installation when I reboot it gives me a black screen with the message options I described above.
Has anyone faced the same problems? I would never expect to be it so damn hard to simply install an OS in a brand new machine.