So I burned ubuntu 16.04 on a live CD.  I have a UEFI motherboard, when I booted Ubuntu, it shows the loading screen, then it goes black, not responding at all.  I tried a Linux Mint disc, and it just worked fine. But Ubuntu Live CD just refuses to boot up.  What I did so far:   Turned Fast Boot Off Turned Fast Startup off in Windows. Turned Secure Boot off. Turned iGPU off. (I run two monitors, one in the GPU and one in the iGPU)   System specs if needed:  core i3 4130 8 GB of RAM GTX 750 Ti Gigabyte GA-H81M-HD3
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I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer.  When I boot Ubuntu, it boots to a black screen.  How can I fix this? Table of Contents:
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I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS along side with Windows 10 (I shrinked my Disk using Windows Disk Management) on my Acer laptop (ES1-531-C13G), but when I restart/reboot my system no menu (Grub screen) appears from where I can select the operating system that I want to boot with, but instead, system takes me into Windows 10 everytime. I've tried several things from internet including :    Ran bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi from windows command prompt.  Reset  Bootorder i.e. first Ubuntu then Windows from Ubuntu terminal (after successful Ubuntu installation) etc, but nothing works for me so far. Please guide me !
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I'd like to install Ubuntu 13.04 on Lenovo g580 and I have this issue. After a few seconds of booting liveUSB screens gets black and nothing happens. I've read somewhere about connecting second screen to solve similar issue. Of course this didn't solve it, but it provided something like terminal with     initramfs>   and few basic commands ..  Is it possible to install Ubuntu on Lenovo g580 hardware? I also checked  Ubuntu 12.04: failed  Mint 13: SUCCEED (x32 and x64)  Is it because of drivers? Of course I want Ubuntu instead of Mint. :)
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I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 and want to completely format my laptop so I can install Windows 7 (replace Ubuntu).   When I put in my bootable USB with the OS it just shows a black screen with a white blinking cursor on the top left corner. I wait for hours (to be specific 5 whole hours) waiting for something to happen but I get nothing, so I pull out the USB and my Ubuntu 12.04 loads up.  Repeated this several times with putting different boot priority options on top-est that relate to USB but the results are same. I go and visit some sites on the net like this  that say I have to zero out my hard drive.   My question is how?  Note: Erasing out all my data is no problem cause I have nothing important to backup.  If I have to lose my primary OS (Ubuntu 12.04) in the process I am ready to as my aim is just to install Windows 7 successfully. Please don't answer that there is something wrong with my USB or my USB reader/port/hardware or the content inside the USB cause they all works fine on my brothers PC as it boots up flawlessly.
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I had windows 10 but during a reset, it died ( I know my bad ). So I am attempting to wipe the drive and install ubuntu from a clean install but whenever I select to install ubuntu it only gives me a black screen. It's in UEFI and secure boot.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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I installed or upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04, but I'm having some problems with my graphics card.   The display is blank The display flickers Items on the screen do not display correctly Certain programs complain of graphics issues The computer boots to low-graphics mode Your specific issue may not be here, but try the solutions described in the answers anyway.   This question is very broad, but each one of these issues likely has one solution.    If you are experiencing a login loop, check the last part of my answer.    If you experience one of the listed issues and have your own solution (mine didn't work, or there's a faster way), feel free to post another POLITE answer, describing your problem and how you fixed it.    Those attempting to install Ubuntu, please refer to the section titled: If you are unable to enter a TTY or are trying to install Ubuntu.
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I followed this  to install Ubuntu as dual-boot with Windows 8.1 pre-installed as(UEFI),but I am not able to dual-boot and tried    I first burned an Ubuntu ISO on a blank DVD-R to create the LiveCD. Even with secure boot disabled, when I tried restarting my computer, it never booted to the installation screen, and it just skipped to Windows.  After a lot of skimming, I thought I had to put my computer in Legacy Mode in order to get give my CD/ROM drive priority. I installed Ubuntu and used my existing EFI partition. Ubuntu works, but Windows doesn't, probably because my laptop is stuck in Legacy Mode. I tried switching back to UEFI using boot-repair on the Linux Terminal, and going into Advanced Properties -> Grub Location -> Ticking the checkbox for EFI, but it says I need to be in an EFI session, and now I'm just really lost and confused at what I've all done. I can see my Windows8.1 OS on a partition but I want to dual-boot Windows 8.1 along with Ubuntu?   Did I just brick my computer?
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I am running a 64bit laptop and i am trying to install ubuntu 11.04 from both a usb and cd.  However, when I click either install from disk or try ubuntu I get to a black screen with this: fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed  Any ideas?
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I installed the latest updates from the software update center today (I update when ubuntu displays a notification), restarted the machine and now it's unable to boot properly. The best screen I can get is displayed below. If I resize the screen then it goes to black. If I restart the machine then it displays just purple.    Note that the screen is unresponsive, I can't click anything on it.  Other than SMBus Host Controller not enabled! I don't see any other warnings. Note that I don't know if this warning existed before the update.  I'm running ubuntu 18.04 in vwmare workstation 15 player (latest update). Any ideas on how to begin debugging this?    Update: Trying to boot Ubuntu, with Linux 4.15.0-50-generic instead of Ubuntu, with Linux 4.15.0-51-generic didn't help.  Update: Blacklisting i2c-piix4 according to  answer didn't remove the warning or fix the issue.  Update: Blacklisting i2c-piix4 according to  answer removed the warning but didn't fix the issue.  Update: The answer from Uzair helped me log into the account (run dpkg and update grub from recovery mode).  Answer:  answer helped me fully to resolve the issue. I don't understand the fix. If anyone does, put it as the answer and I'll mark it as such.  Regarding duplicity: The answer from another question did solve my issue but I don't think my question is a duplicate of that one. I began with a fresh install of 18.04 a few months ago, did several updates without an issue and only today experienced issues which are different than those described in the other question. I think we experienced different bugs with wayland and we both solved it by disabling it which is a destructive solution applicable to many questions.
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When I turn my PC on, it asks me if I want to boot Ubuntu 16.04 or Windows 10. When I choose Ubuntu 16.04, it look like it is booting, but then it just show me this screen:  BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands  (initramfs)   I was installing Ubuntu by CD. First time, when was installation complete, the system was running without any problems, but when I turned my PC off (there wasn't any problems or messages during the shutdown) and then turned it on and choosed Ubuntu this happend.
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So I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows XP, and I played with it for a like an hour. When I wanted to go back to Windows, I chose the Windows option in the GRUB screen. It just gives a black screen and goes back to grub. I tried boot-repair as I've seen in some other post that it could resolve the problem, but it's all the same. Nothing changed. I can use Ubuntu but not Windows. Can someone please tell me how I can solve this? Thanks.
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I have a similar laptop to    But I am opening another question as the problem I face is different. The  and did not find any experience with the Ubuntu installation.  After switching from RAID to AHCI, disabling a secure boot, updating the BIOS, and play around with the BIOS option, I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.03.  I am not actually installing it but just using "Try Ubuntu". I pass to the bootloader the options nomodeset intel_idle.max_state=1 without which the installation stops very early. I've also played around with ipv6.disable.  Everything stops while turning on services(see attached figure). In particular acpid.service is the last thing I see, then the system freezes.  I suspect it is related to ACPI setup but don't have any clue on how to fix it. Any suggestion is much appreciated.
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I have an ISO image of my backup solution's recovery cd. When I burn the image to a CD-ROM, I can boot from it in UEFI or normal mode without problems.   Unfortunately, this is no solution for my laptop, as it does not have an optical drive. Thus,  I tried to create a bootable USB stick that can also boot in UEFI mode, but so far I have not been successful (note that the laptop has UEFI and boots Windows 7 in UEFI mode).  So my question is, if anyone knows how I can get said ISO on my USB stick so that it boots as if I would use a CD-ROM?
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I used a live USB to install Ubuntu 14.04 and completely erase windows 8.1, the installation went fine but when I restarted the computer Ubuntu wouldn't boot from my HDD, instead it came up with try Ubuntu or install Ubuntu so I restarted without the live usb plugged in and I got an error message Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key.  I read a lot of posts about people that had similar problems but so far none of the solutions that worked for them have worked for me.  I also ran boot-repair but that didn't fix the problem either.   Here is the link from boot-repair   Please any help would be appreciated.  My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite U50D-A notebook with AMD A6-5200 processor
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Okay, I apologize if there are similar threads... but I've scoured the internet and never have I run across a helpful answer. So I'll ask here...   I have an old laptop, an Acer Aspire 5515... It was running Vista and was taking 5-10 seconds to just do anything, even as simple as opening a folder. So I decided to install a windows-user-friendly version of Linux - something I've wanted to try for a long time. I ended up settling on Kubuntu because I read somewhere that it's medium-light weight, and good for people used to running windows, after all, I can always replace it with something different later on.   I went to the ubuntu site itself and downloaded  "kubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-am64"  Then the problems started flowing in. Some of it user error I admit... first the CD I got wasn't big enough, then I forgot you can't copy past an iso file, then I couldn't get the Acer to boot from cd drive  Eventually, I fixed these... I burnt the iso image right, used a larger DVD, and changed the bios to boot from the cd. I went to try to just 'try' Kubuntu but that just wasn't working very well, so I just went and tried to go ahead and replace the OS. I knew it would kill everything on the Vista, but I already transferred the files I wanted to keep and the computer was unusable as it was, so I figured why not.   I went through with trying to do the installation, and the first time got to about 80% when I got the Errno 5 Input/Output Error  Alright then... it said something about heat so I placed the computer on a low running box fan as a make shift computer fan (It was getting hot anyway), and I tried again. Made it to about the mid-60s and got the same error.   This time, I went and I double checked the iso... it's indeed the most recent one on the Ubuntu site, and then I used winMd5sum, which says the checksum is correct. I then got another disk and downloaded imgBurn and burnt a new disk at the lowest possible speed (tried for 1x, but it did 2x).   Tried again and it still pulled the same error around the same spot.  So this time at the bootup screen I pressed shift and chose Check for Defects, it returned with Errors found in 1 file  The memtest86 says no errors.  So I'm assuming that means there's a problem with the CD/iso? The check sum was supposedly correct and it was burnt on the lowest possible burn with trusted software. Also, the cd drive works just fine and the disk itself is brand new without a scuff on it.  I'm pretty stumped what to do. I'm going to try to find a cheap flash drive at the dollar store or something to try to boot from USB, but if there is any troubleshooting I could do to get this to work without having to spend money I can't really afford, that'd be really helpful.   As it stands I have a nearly 10-year-old computer with no OS whatsoever on it because the windows section is all deleted, but the Ubuntu section is not fully installed.
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I'm stuck on this screen. I've edited the Ubuntu boot partition while running Windows now Ubuntu does not boot anymore. In depth I have seen a lot of question like this one on here, but what I have not gotten is the replies from the people who have asked about whether the answer has worked or not. Basically tried to boot Ubuntu and it went well. It worked and I installed it something somewhere went wrong and now when I try to boot it. I looked at the other answers that said troubleshoot. So I did it ctrl-alt-1-7 but 1-6 just tells me to log in and runs a whole script than stops unexpectedly and 7 is where it says /dev/mmcblk0p2: clean Booting Ubuntu worked earlier (yesterday) but I trashed a file and then  renamed the file trash 1000 but kept the files so I renamed it ubuntu. Then I tried to restart it up on my Chromebook. It still has old entries from it but I don't know how to delete those to start ALL over. This on Ubuntu 20.04.
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Actually, I have done something terribly wrong. I did not want Ubuntu 13.04 on my PC anymore. I was sick of dual-booting every time the PC starts, and I wanted to return to Windows as well. (My version is Windows XP MCE SP2). The mistake I did is that I simply used EASUS Partition Manager to delete the Ubuntu partitions. But what went wrong here is that, even when I did it, the GRUB keeps trying to load. It says that GRUB could not be found and finally ends up running GRUB Rescue.  I cannot "Repair" my PC using the Recovery Discs (containing Windows XP MCE), it only gives me an option to press "F", which will format the HDD to re-install the OS.  Although, the best part is that I can still log in to Windows. Because, when I boot from the CD's, it does not give me a "Repair" option, but only "Format" and "Quit". By using "Quit", it takes me straight to Windows.  But I do not want to keep doing this same thing every time I start my PC. Neither do I want to Format my Hard Disk. I have tried a few applications, like EasyBCD which do nothing. So I want a good solution for it.  Is their any way to install MBR through Windows or maybe Ubuntu terminal? Even if i can't access Ubuntu again? And what after installing Ubuntu again. Any safe method to uninstall it?