Problems starting after installation.

[Stefan Fuhrmann]

Hello Owen,


I think you need an "uefi patition". You can try it with the ubuntu 
installer or you use "parted" https://gparted.org/download.php


Stefan


Am 02.06.21 um 06:36 schrieb Owen Thomas:
> 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.
>
>
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