How do you get 16.04 to boot?

[rikona]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:07:50 -0700
Pastor JW <rev.olson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Just FYI - I'm running Ubuntu 16.04, a clean install. I like some KDE
tools so I then also installed the KDE desktop. This fouled up the box
A LOT - it had many problems! Got a lot of help on this list [thanks
again!] but quite a few things were never resolved/fixed. It was so bad
I finally did a complete reinstall of 16.04. This time I only added a
few KDE tools, not the whole desktop [and yes, that does also load
lots of stuff too]. This caused fewer problems overall, but Ubuntu and
the KDE tools still DO NOT work well together. Since Nautilus, for
example, is such a disaster, I still prefer to use some KDE tools
instead and live with the problems.

The mix caused some odd OS-looking problems - at some point you might
consider an Ubuntu only install to see if that helps.

> > 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,
>