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I've been trying since yesterday to dual boot my new HP Pavilion Power 15, but apparently there's something wrong with it. I've tried dual booting Windows 10 with both Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04. I followed this guide more than once and without missing anything and everything seems to work fine until the installation ends and asks me to reboot. As I do that computer freeze (maybe there's a GPU problem?). I tried a forced shutdown, but it doesn't seems to work after that.

PC Specs:

  Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ | 2.8 GHz - 6 MB L3
  HDD: 1000 GB
  SSD: 128 GB
  RAM: 8 GB
  Display: 15.6" WLED Full HD
  WiFi IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
  Bluetooth 4.2
  Windows 10 Home 64-bit
  Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, 2 GB

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So apparently my problem (but it may affects many more users) simply was that nvidia graphics were "getting in the way". A simple solution after spotting that has been adding in GRUB-edit (e-key right before going for "Live test") nomodeset in front of quiet splash and the ctrl+X to temporally save. After that shutting down/rebooting was just a distant nightmare.

UPDATE: with Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) it was introduced with ubiquity installer a safe graphics mode that automatically activate the nomodeset option.

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