I installed Ubuntu (26.04) on an Alienware Aurora ACT1250 that comes with NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and faced a couple of issues, mainly because of the graphics card. Here are the steps I followed.
I'm assuming you already have an Ubuntu bootable usb ready.
- Bios settings
Hit the
F12key while booting till you get the BIOS page.Modify the boot sequence so your usb is first.
It should say
Boot Mode: UEFI only
Bios Setup > Boot Configuration
- Select AHCI/NVMe
Bios Setup > Storage
Apply Changes
Exit
- Select
Ubuntu safe graphics
I tried "Try/Install Ubuntu" but it didn't work, I got a black frozen page. So I had to manually restart the machine and choose "safe graphics".
Black frozen page:
- Install Ubuntu.
I followed a regular installation, basically next on every single page.
The installation went fine, but when Ubuntu tried to start, the black frozen page showed up again.
- Fix Grub
- While booting, hit
Esctill you get to the GNU GRUB shell
I never got the
Ubuntu boot menu, I saw it for a second and it automatically switched to thegrub shell. The shell renders very slowly, so be patient while typing.
ls -la /boot/
linux /boot/vmlinuz-7.0.0-30-generic root=/dev/nvme0n1p2 ro nomodeset
initrd /boot/initrd.img-7.0.0-30-generic
boot
Change
7.0.0-30to your version.
- After booting, you should be in Ubuntu, open a terminal and type:
Make sure the internet is on
sudo apt update
sudo grub-install /dev/nvme0n1
sudo update-grub
- Install NVIDIA driver
ubuntu-drivers devices
- Pick the one that says "recommended", in my case:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-592-open
- It will open the
Secure BootWizard.
- Create a password.
- Once the password is created, reboot the machine.
sudo reboot
- After rebooting, it will show the MOK Management screen. Press any key.
- Enroll MOK
- Continue
- Yes
- Enter password
- Reboot
- Verify
Now Ubuntu should start just fine. Let's double check NVIDIA is working, open a terminal and type:
nvidia-smi
It should display a table, you are good to go.
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