going from 14.04 LTS to 16.04.1

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:13:40 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
>> What error messages, if any, did you get?  
>none.

Why do you not describe what exactly doesn't work?

Did the release upgrade finish? Yes, no, you don't know?
Could you shutdown the computer? Yes, no? If not, what didn't work?
E.g. did you Ctrl+Alt+F2 and run    shutdown -h now    ?
If no error message, was there any other message, e.g. adid you hear
the bell, aka a beep or beeps?
If you could shutdown, couldn't you boot the updated install? Yes, no?
If not, where did it stop?
After the BIOS messages you could see GRUB? Yes,no?
Assuming you could use GRUB and select to boot Ubuntu, where did it
stop? E.g. after selecting the menu entry "foobar" and pushing enter
did the screen immediately get pink with yellow stripes and you heard
three beeps and there wasn't any HDD activity?

Please, don't just quote "did the screen immediately get pink with
yellow stripes" and reply "no", if the screen was red with orange
stripes.