boot problem since last upfrade 20.04.3

[Grizzly]

18 September 2021  at 14:34, Liam Proven wrote:
Re: boot problem since last upfrade (at least in part)

>On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 14:27, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>> any ideas short of sticking with 5.8.0-59 ??

>Hmmm. So is it booting but not loading the desktop?

It gets so far, but none of the Ctrl+Alt+F's work

only wa can get a a prompt is to go via "Advanced-Recovery-sud"

>If so, Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6 should get you to a text-mode login.

>Another thing you can try: on the GRUB boot menu, press E to edit the
>boot command line. Look for the line starting with Linux and add

>nomodeset

>to the end of it. Then press F10 to boot.

I will give that a go

>If you can get to a command prompt, you could uninstall the nVidia
>drivers and then maybe download and install a newer version. What card
>do you have?

an oldish G8300 (according to ubuntu-drivers devices before I upgraded) I did 
have a similar problem testing 21.04 (live) so I didn't install that