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Dell Inspiron 7548 (laptop) - Intel(r) core i7-5500U cpu 2.40 ghz, came with Win 8.1.

Grahammechanical,

I rebooted, pressed the F12 key after the mobo splash screen, and then disabled secureboot.
I am in the GNU GRUB terminal, not the GRUB bootscreen.

Upon booting my Ubuntu...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/88384/how-can-i-repair-grub-how-to-get-ubuntu-back-after-installing-windows

I ran the commands listed in the top reply, which is what I meant when I said...

This is a bit long and may contain some noobiness, but please bear with me.

After rebooting my PC, I was met with an error, "Unable to mount /". The session prior I made my partition writable and...

*After restarting the Xserver, and rebooting, I'm welcomed by a GUI login screen, however, after inputting my password, it sends me back to the same login screen. I can use the guest session,...

Specs:


Model: Dell Inspiron 7548 (laptop)
CPU: Intel(r) core i7-5500U cpu 2.40 ghz

Notes: preinstalled, came with Win 8.1.

*** After rebooting a second time after "fixing" my PC, I yet again boot into a black screen immediately after the splash.

Since the first post, I installed XFCE and was yet again rebooting to...

Fixed it!
Thank you, Vladlenin5000, ajgreeny, and Claracc for your time and assistance!

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173808

After running the command in maxarsys response,
...

Okay, after running
egrep '\(EE\)|\(WW\)' /var/log/Xorg.0* | less
, the first part of the output reads


/var/log/Xorg.0.log: [ 75756.129] (WW) The directory...

Thank you for the link, Claracc, I'm checking it out now. :D

Claracc, I still cannot access my GUI, is there a quicker way to get the text on my phone? I'm stuck with just that right now, as I lack a GUI and don't have a CLI browser.

Thank you, Claracc, checking the post now. :)

Edit: One second please, painstakingly writing it on my phone :P

Claracc, I apologize for my noobiness, but by code tags do you mean the commented areas after sharps/hash's??

Edit:: I may not have made the lack of a GUI clear in earlier posts, my bad. Thank you...

Claracc, I can't access my desktop at all, TTY7 lacks any graphics, and is just a blackscreen. This is the primary issue.

Sorry for the late reply, but how would I go about changing the server?

E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg_7.7+1ubuntu8.1_amd64.deb. Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run...

After running that command, it outputted

'Failed to fetch..." As well as
unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Do you know what else I could do...

Vladlenin5000,
After running both commands, I got an 'E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.' Error.

I ran both with the -f flag, and got more 'Failed to fetch (link)' errors, what could I do...

After completing a security update, I had to hard reboot due to my keyboard input and mouse button presses not doing anything. Specs: Dell Inspiron 7548 (laptop) - Intel(r) core i7-5500U cpu 2.40...