I am trying to dual boot Linux on my laptop (Dell XPS 15) which is running Windows 10 Pro. I did not have any problem dual booting the two operating systems on my desktop.
I cannot boot up ANY Linux Distro, I have tried Mint, Ubuntu and Elementary OS. Whenever I try to boot from a live USB, I get the this message on all attempts:
GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists are possible device or file completions.
grub>
When I type in "boot" I get the error: you need to load the kernel first.
Secure boot is disabled, and I have tried both in legacy and UEFI BIOS mode. I have never come across this error before, what causes it?
Best Answer
You say ANY distro fails... as such, the completeness of your question leaves much to be desired, until such time as you describe your preparation of this USB stick. Your point of being stuck half-way into Grub is familiar-- I was having success putting Mint on a thumbdrive via Unetbootin (though actually I had to find a tweak and edit the menu.lst file manually to get it to use the USB instead of looking for a CD, since I was using a .iso (CD) image source) but that stopped working when I tried Mint 18.x which apparently switched to syslinux from the simpler Grub in the 17.x with which I had had success. Searching a bit, I notice the Arch brainiacs seem to favour Gummiboot for UEFI environments: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/2l5rvk/syslinux_or_grub/