Difference between installation restart vs desktop restart

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Take a real Debian, it just works.

Hth John



Am 11.12.2016 um 22:03 schrieb Jim Byrnes:
> On 12/11/2016 12:14 PM, Peter Silva wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No. ctrl-alt-F1 does nothing.
>
> Regards, Jim
>
>>
>> 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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