Without access to BIOS, how to dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu?

[TheFu]

For a remote server, you really need a RIBLO card in the server, on a completely different subnet. About once a year, MSFT will update their boot sequence and break booting of any other OS. Without the RIBLO card, the system will be down until they reconnect the console switch and you can fix it remotely.

With a RIBLO, you can do everything except physically connect a USB flash drive or drop optical media into the drive slot.

There are a few different names for RIBLO and there have been huge, huge, security issues over the decades with each of the different implementations. https://www.itworld.com/article/2708...-heard-of.html
I used to work at a very large enterprise with over 100,000 servers. We put RIBLOs into every one of our Intel servers because the cost in downtime and hassle even with onsite people 24/7/365 was more expensive than buying those cards. The card is specific to the server - support is needed on both sides.

I don't know anything about the gaming setup, but almost always, the OS and applications aren't tuned very well. I've seen 32-way servers replaced with 64-way systems (5 systems in total) because the official vender didn't think to add a few DB indexes. Our DBAs looked over everything, added about 10 indexes and utilization dropped to under 30% on the old systems. Unfortunately, the company had already spent many, many, millions to upgrade those servers. Look at tuning if you can't just do a fork lift fix.

[armadal]

Sorry for the late reply.

Luckily, I've installed Windows 10 LTSC, so only updates that I manually select, and manually choose to install, will ever be installed. Bonus, Windows 10 will only look for updates when I do so manually. So that's not an issue.

But what is an issue, is that I still can't figure out how to get Ubuntu Minimal to install to the created partitions. Throws the same error, and there's nothing for me to go off of.

Is there a way to have the Ubuntu Minimal ISO, which is written to a USB stick, output a log file that actually says what caused the failure?

[oldfred]

I thought the minimal did not have UEFI.
Those that need UEFI can install server, but not install any of the server apps with

Used by Server install to choose what you want
sudo apt install tasksel
sudo tasksel
sudo apt install ubuntu-server
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel

Minimal will not install in UEFI mode, but server will
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...wMemorySystems