Difference between installation restart vs desktop restart

[Peter Silva]

likely you have an nvidia video card, there are recipes in here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it



On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 4:19 PM, MLR <mailinglist at online.ms> wrote:
> Take a real Debian, it just works.
>
> Hth John
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> 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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