How do you get 16.04 to boot?

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Pastor JW schreef op 02-07-2017 5:00:

> It does a hard drive check then goes to a dark grey screen which
> remains unchanging.  nothing else comes on screen.  Yes the laptop
> screen is working.  The light on the keyboard comes on that says the
> wireless is turned on.  However, the only way to get it to work is to
> hit the escape early, go to the advanced options and click on the the
> kernel choice that has "upstart" behind it, whatever that is, then it
> come with a ramdisk comment, then it brings up my login screen and and
> I can get online.  I have to go through all these manual steps to make
> it work.

To be honest here: you have a systemd configuration issue, Grub actually 
does work, and if you could make your upstart choice the default your 
problems would immediately be solved.

I would appreciate someone who could point this user to making the 
upstart entry the default boot entry.