Difference between installation restart vs desktop restart

[Jim Byrnes]

On 12/11/2016 12:14 PM, Peter Silva wrote:
> If you do <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F1>
> do you get a login prompt at the top left of the screen?
> you can then enter your username and password and at least get a
> termninal window to start figuring this out.

No. ctrl-alt-F1 does nothing.

Regards, Jim

>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 to a machine I just built. It has an
>> Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 LGA1151 processor, 32 GB ddr4 dram and a Geforce GTX
>> 750Ti video card.
>>
>> The first thing I did was to just "Try Ubuntu". The screen flashed dark pink
>> then went black.  The harddrive led flashed for a while but in the end the
>> screen remained black.
>>
>> Then I tried to "install Ubuntu". This seemed to work. The install screen
>> was at a nice resolution. I checked the "download software while installing
>> option" and the "third party software option". When prompted I restarted the
>> machine.  Again I got the pink flash and then the black screen.
>>
>> Some googling led to the suggestion not to allow third party software, so I
>> tried that and I also did not check "download software while installing" and
>> it seemed to work. After the restart I was booted to the ubuntu desktop. At
>> this point I ran the software updater and restarted at the prompt.  At this
>> point I again ended up at a black screen.
>>
>> I then repeated the above procedure but did not run software updated once
>> the desktop came up.  When I restarted I again ended up with just a black
>> screen.
>>
>> So what is the difference between a installation restart and a normal
>> desktop restart?
>>
>> Most of the suggestions I see from google pertain to dual boot situations
>> which is not the case here. They talk of grub options and ctrl-alt-F1 to
>> tty. I don't see a grub menu, but could edit grub.cfg if that would help.  I
>> tried ctrl-alt-F1 but that does not bring up a tty.
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
>>
>> --
>> ubuntu-users mailing list
>> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>