I need to install ubuntu on 7490, but now it blocks by the intel RST mode. The disk can't be found when installing. As guide , i need to turn off 'RAID on', and swith disk mode to AHCI, but how to do that? i realy can't find related items from current 7490 bios. Who can support here?

BIOS version 1.4.1, released on the 31/3/2020, still does not have an AHCI option.

Hey guys May 1st update, someone's succesfully installed linux on his system. You can all do it too. There's a Linux distro that supports install with Raid on. So if you don't care about the distro, then go to Endless OS, make a USB stick and should

Update: Already compiled the linux Kernel with Endless OS patches. Trying to figure how to compile ubuntu with the custom kernel. Fingers crossed but should have a working image soon. I'm busy so will try to get that out in the next week or so. &nb

So I have been running ubuntu 20.04 for the 3 weeks. Sorry guys took a while to make this post but you can see the image on sourceforge is almost a month old. Will update this guide with more detailed instructions with time, but you have the general

@ollebompa I just ordered the 7490. Shame it doesn't seem to work with Ubuntu. While the laptop hasn't arrived yet I was wondering if a driver update has changed the situation since your original post? I read the article you linked about NVMe m.2 dr

Hello, I bought this computer in december from Dell obviously because Dell was known to have good compliance with Linux and specifically Ubuntu. This limitation from the BIOS is really a shame. Why the hell don't you warn the buyer "hey guys, don't b

Same am I, I never had a problem like this in Dell inspiron , but this is my case with this model. I am currently using Ubuntu in my old Dell inspiron, but I don't know what happened to the new Dell models !!!

I never had problem to install ubuntu on an inspiron laptop. Sometime the install bug and all you have to do is try again. Does it give you an error?

Thanks for your help guys. I've decided to refund this laptop after many private messages from the Dell support trying to convince me to post the issue on Ubuntu forums as it is not Dell problem, which indicates that Dell is not aware about our conce