10.10 boots to command prompt

[ihatetryingtopickaloginna]

I have a new laptop and decided to put 10.10 on it in place of win7. I burned a cd for it and started it up. It boots to the desktop with the live cd, but after installing it only boots to a command line. I don't know the command to run the desktop or how to change it to boot into the desktop. Typing in 'gnome' didn't work.

Does anyone know what I did wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks

[Dutch70]

Try...

sudo startx

If it starts, run...

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[ihatetryingtopickaloginna]

It just went to a blank screen for about 15 minutes or so. I don't think it's going to work, but I'm going to wait awhile longer and see.

[wilee-nilee]

It just went to a blank screen for about 15 minutes or so. I don't think it's going to work, but I'm going to wait awhile longer and see.

Try a low graphic login, hit the power button and hold down the shift to get the grub menu. Hit e and use the arrow keys to get to no splash at the kernel end and replace it with nomodeset, then hit crtl-x to boot. If this gets you in look at the menu-system-admin-additional drivers.