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I just finished setting up a dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 10 on my HP G6, and I ran into a really frustrating problem. Ever since I finished the install, my screen goes black right after I choose Ubuntu and it finishes loading. I can bypass by changing around the quick splash in grub. Or by opening in recovery and them proceeding to launch normally.

I assume it has something to do with my drivers but they're all active in additional drivers. So it's probably something I need to either change in grub that will stay permanently or find a driver update online.

I'm really new to Linux so any help is really appreciated. Very excited to get into this OS and have some fun. Thanks.

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First, boot to recovery mode and drop to a root shell.

1) Mount the file system as R/W: mount -o remount,rw /

2) Next, run sudo nano /etc/default/grub

3) Then add nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Becomes:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

And then save by hitting Ctrl+O, then exit nano with Ctrl+X

4) Finally, run:

sudo update-grub
sudo reboot
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