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Ubuntu Not Booting

Asked by Korbinian Schauss

I have a dual boot setup with Vista where Vista was installed first and I wanted to try out Ubuntu. After I installed Ubuntu using the default settings of automatically partitioning it worked fine and then a window popped up asking if I wanted to activate my Nvidia graphics drivers and since I didn't think this should cause a problem I did. After this I rebooted and tried out if Vista still worked, it did a hard drive check and after that it booted fine. Now after I restarted my system again Ubuntu won't boot past the screen where it says battery (ok) or something along those lines. After this I thought I might just get rid of Ubuntu and install it again this time without activating the graphics drivers, but the partition doesn't even show up which leaves me with an operating system installed on my computer which I cannot use and which will try to load every time I turn on my computer. By the way like I stated I am completely new to Ubuntu so please forgive my possibly very stupid question.

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David Jones (dj) said : 		#1

I am also a newbie and believe me there is no such thing as a stupid question!
Have you tried to completely power down your machine? turn off unplug from power supply and the hold in start button for 5 seconds?
The same thing happened to my brother inlaws pc after I installed Kubuntu on it. That did however fix the problem. Give it a try.

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Korbinian Schauss (korb-schauss) said : 		#2

Yeah, I tried that and it still doesn't work. Thanks for the reply though.

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Best Federico Vera (fedevera) said : 		#3

Well it seems that the problem is with your nvidia drivers, you could try this (there would be some console involved so try to avoid skipping steps):
Try starting ubuntu, when it hangs up press "ctrl+alt+F1" this SHOULD open a console...
If that worked, it will ask you for your username and your password.
After that is done, type "sudo killall gdm" it will ask you for your password again, this command will terminate the gnome desktop manager (It doesn't actually KILL it =)
then write "sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf" navigate (press the down arrow) to the "Device" section. Locate the Driver string which must say "nv" or "nvidia" and change it to "vesa" (a generic video driver)
Once you do this; press "Ctrl+X" and then press enter.
Now it's time for the truth... type "gdm"
If everything went all right this should fix your problem.

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Korbinian Schauss (korb-schauss) said : 		#4

It worked thanks for being so helpful.