I had some luck with Dell after I told them to give me a different machine. Finally got in touch with someone with Dell support that checked their knowledge base.
There is an option in the Dell BIOS that has to do with "Intel VMD Technology". The solution that Dell provided was to disable the VMD feature (e.g.mark it as disabled) and in the PCIE Devices list: uncheck all devices and reboot. After doing that, 16.04 and 18.04 now seem to boot without any kernel flags (as long as the nouveau driver supports the card). I'm still doing testing to make sure that this is a work around where the machine will see all devices instead of just 1 core. Will report back with the results. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1812758 Title: Boot failure on Dell Precision 5820 with Intel Xeon W-2123 CPU Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: So I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.5 (happens on 18.04 as well) on a Dell Precision 5820 with a GTX 1080 in it. These machines are lease refreshes. I created a UEFI image of 16.04.5, selected "Install Ubuntu" and then starts throwing a bunch of error messages stating [33.192238] nouveau 0000:05:00.0: DRM: base-0: timeout repeating over and over again. It never gets past this. I tried the suggestions of adding "nomodeset" in grub when I'm booting. It progresses a little further but hangs at "failed to start Ubuntu Installation Service, please run journalctl to see what failed". I can't see what failed as I can't get a prompt since nothing is installed. I don't know where to go debug from here. My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? Graphics issues after/while installing Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 with NVIDIA graphics Ubuntu 16.04 Installation Issue Boots Into Black Screen or Freezes - Nouveau/Nvidia Driver issue 1080ti Ubuntu 16.04 installation blank screen Ubuntu 16.04 unable to boot with GTX 1080 etc. However, I tried Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and did NOT have the issues with the video and was successfully able to install Ubuntu 16.04.1. Unfortunately, 16.04.1 didn't support the integrated Intel i219-LM network card. I tried 16.04.2, 16.04.3, 16.04.4 and they all exhibit the same behavior as 16.04.5 with the video. Just as a test, I installed 16.04.1, installed broadcom NIC (which was successfully detected), and upgraded from 16.04.1 --> 16.04.5 with apt-get and had no video issues after reboot (I didn't install the video drivers), in addition, after it was upgraded to 16.04.5 the Intel 219-LM drivers were added and would work. I have a workaround, but it's REALLY annoying. The kicker in this is that the Dell Precision 5810 worked 100% correctly. Put the USB boot drive in, select the drive in UEFI to boot and everything works out of the box. I'm working on gathering more logs of this issue and testing different kernel versions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1812758/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
