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Dual Boot for Ubuntu 13.04 Dell XPS 15

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Procedure to dual boot Dell XPS 15

Original install Windows 7.

Open windows 7 turn off Intel rapid storage technology in windows, boot several times to ensure raid type drive not being used.

Used windows disk manager halved partition, to create space for ubuntu.

Booted several times to make sure all OK.

booted to usb stick with Ubuntu 13.04 and installed Ubuntu.

Prior to this had many issues trying to get it to registed existing OS

in BIOS, not actually bios, new thing!!

Turned off intel secure boot and left intel smart reponse technology on.

No boot install of GRUB

booted to ubuntu on usb and used the following to install boot-repair

sudo apt-get-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

Installed grub to all partitions except the solid state drive.

This gave me grub access with windows.

Went back turned on Intel rapid storage technology in windows, booted several times to sort.

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