Problems starting after installation.

[Bret Busby]

On 02/06/2021, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have recently had my Dell Latitude 5511 returned to me from Dell when an
> issue I had with the computer appeared to require replacement of some
> hardware.
>
> Windows had been installed by Dell, yet I wanted my computer to have Ubuntu
> 20.04, so I installed Ubuntu from a USB overwriting the installed Windows.
> The installation appeared successful: there was one complaint early on when
> checking the installation that one file had errors and there may be errors
> later.
>
> I restarted the computer when prompted to restart it by the installation
> process, removed the installation medium (the USB stick) when prompted to
> do this, pressed return. Ubuntu successfully started. I completed the
> post-installation process by not setting up any cloud services, allowing
> anonymous usage information to be sent, and not permitting location
> information.
>
> I then restarted the computer and a short while after the Dell splash
> screen was displayed accompanied with a small Ubuntu circular insignia
> below, the screen went blank and I was left with nothing more than a
> flashing cursor in the top left of screen.
>
> I have repeated this process four times.
>
> What could be going wrong? Might this problem have anything to do with the
> concerns reported at the start of the installation?
>
>  Owen.
>

How long did you wait, for the boot process to complete, before aborting it?

Especially for the first boot after installation, I would wait at
least ten minutes, before stopping the boot process.

You difd not include any system specifications - what is the CPU? How
much RAM does the system have?

These are factors that can significantly affect the boot process
duration. If you are doing this, with a Celeron CPU, with 2GB of RAM,
it will take longer than an i7CPU with 32GB of RAM.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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