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I have the same problem as My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? and the solutions there did not help me fix it. I want to dual boot this to my Windows 8.1. I disabled fast and secure boot, when I restart my computer it does not detect the LiveDVD, I have to shift+restart for it to detect it, and when it does it shows me a black screen with three options (Try, Install, Check for Problems) and not the purple one where I can press F6 and solve my woes. When I press 'e' to edit the boot parameters, there are only three lines of parameters, the second one ending in quiet splash --. I tried adding nomodeset after the word splash then pressing F10 to boot with those configurations, and that did not work either. It's probably relevant information that I have two graphics cards: an integrated Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M.

What should I do?

--EDIT:

Ok, so, I managed to install it, by deactivating UEFI and going through lengths and pains. Then I used a boot repair disk to make it possible to boot into Ubuntu, and all. Ok, so now I boot, and I get these options:

  • Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-32-generic
  • Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-32-generic (recovery mode)
  • Windows UEFI bootmgfw.efi
  • Windows Boot UEFI loader
  • EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
  • System setup

Choosing the 3rd or 4th option loads Windows normally, choosing the 5th causes me to load a weird power recovery thing, choosing the 1st loads a blank purple screen, and the 2nd loads a blank black screen. System setup loads the BIOS thing.

I expect, then, that I need to get the drivers to run ubuntu. What to do?

(Possibly relevant: http://paste.ubuntu.com/9784753/ the pastebin my boot recovery disk created.)

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Go back into Ubuntu Recovery Mode. Look for an option "Drop to root shell prompt" and do that. By default it read only so we need to fix that 

 mount -o remount,rw /

Now that we're mounted rw and in a root shell add ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa (assuming your card is in there - Source just scroll till you get to Nvidia drivers. If you find card, add ppa) 

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

And then 

 sudo apt-get update

finally 

 sudo apt-get install nvidia-verson#

Then restart

Also you can remove if needed by using 

 sudo apt-get remove nvidia-version#

Ubuntu 12.04 does not support UEFI

My bad, it does

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Because also get black screen in recovery, as suggested in comments - if you can get a livecd to boot using try ubuntu (think you said it worked after you disable UEFI) you can then mount your root partition and then add the ppa

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I have managed to do it.

I formatted the partitions I'd dedicated to ubuntu, then activated Secure Boot again, at which point my computer started detecting the LiveUSB I'd started using even with UEFI activated. I was still getting a black screen, but the fact that it flashed me a view of the desktop before going black suggested that all was not lost. I removed quiet splash and added nomodeset to the configurations, et voilà, I could install it.

After finishing the installation, I restarted my computer, went to the UEFI menu to change the boot priority, and successfully booted into ubuntu, though no grub menu with the list of operational systems showed up.

Still, victory! It works.

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