How do you get 16.04 to boot?

[Pastor JW]

On 07/02/2017 03:42 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 1 July 2017 at 21:55, Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
>> For some reason 16.04 has never booted since it went on.  It will sit for
>> hours with nothing coming on the screen, no prompt for user password or any
>> login screen.
> I am guessing there are other distros or OSes on the machine?
Nope, just Ubuntu with KDE and Gnome.
> Is this a clean copy, or an upgrade?

LTS upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04.1  but it is fully current as far as the 
regular updates.

> Release version, or 16.04-1 or 16.04-2?
>
> Will any of those boot off removable media?

I really don't have any,