Difference between installation restart vs desktop restart

[Peter Silva]

If you do <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F1>
do you get a login prompt at the top left of the screen?
you can then enter your username and password and at least get a
termninal window to start figuring this out.


On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 to a machine I just built. It has an
> Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 LGA1151 processor, 32 GB ddr4 dram and a Geforce GTX
> 750Ti video card.
>
> The first thing I did was to just "Try Ubuntu". The screen flashed dark pink
> then went black.  The harddrive led flashed for a while but in the end the
> screen remained black.
>
> Then I tried to "install Ubuntu". This seemed to work. The install screen
> was at a nice resolution. I checked the "download software while installing
> option" and the "third party software option". When prompted I restarted the
> machine.  Again I got the pink flash and then the black screen.
>
> Some googling led to the suggestion not to allow third party software, so I
> tried that and I also did not check "download software while installing" and
> it seemed to work. After the restart I was booted to the ubuntu desktop. At
> this point I ran the software updater and restarted at the prompt.  At this
> point I again ended up at a black screen.
>
> I then repeated the above procedure but did not run software updated once
> the desktop came up.  When I restarted I again ended up with just a black
> screen.
>
> So what is the difference between a installation restart and a normal
> desktop restart?
>
> Most of the suggestions I see from google pertain to dual boot situations
> which is not the case here. They talk of grub options and ctrl-alt-F1 to
> tty. I don't see a grub menu, but could edit grub.cfg if that would help.  I
> tried ctrl-alt-F1 but that does not bring up a tty.
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>
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