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I have an MSI GS63VR. It has an i7-7700HQ CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060.

I just installed Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS using the steps described on the site. I allocated 40 GBs to Ubuntu. Everything seemed to install correctly.

Once I saw the notification about the installation being successful, the machine said I'd need to restart. I press ok (or whatever the prompt said). It froze there. I left and came back a half hour later and saw it hadn't changed so I manually shut down the machine.

It restarted just fine. Instead of going straight to windows, it brought up the screen where I can choose ubuntu or windows. I chose ubuntu. After that, a black screen came up and nothing happened. It just froze there.

Is there something I can or should do to fix this?

Martin Schröder
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Carlos Diaz
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Did you follow proper procedure, ie first disable windows fast boot and UEFI secure boot?

This should be done before attempting to install Ubuntu (or any other OS/Linux).

Secondly, upon installation and later upgrades, never do a hard-reset. It may seem the PC is doing nothing and is stuck - but allow it plenty of time.

Since it is a fresh install that have turned sour, I'd just as well go ahead and install from scratch. And maybe allow a bit more space for Ubuntu.

Some time ago I set up my ASUS N552VX with Ubuntu 16.04, allowing it 60Gb of the SSD. Which later turned out to be a mistake and increased it to 120Gb. Luckily did not have to do any reinstall, just some partition juggling and resizing.

Roy Dybing
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  1. Escape from black screen

    When you stuck on black screen, you can use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to select terminal. Then you can type your username and password to login.

  2. edit /etc/default/grub

    Modify the line of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='pcie_port_pm=off acpi_backlight=none acpi_osi=Linux acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009"'

    Then reboot again. You should be able to see login page.

  3. Re-install nvidia driver (If step 1 & 2 cannot help)

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-390 nvidia-settings
Ping Chu Hung
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