Help installing Lubuntu 16.04 on a laptop

[bobapplepie]

I am trying to install it on an old windows-xp era computer. The installation works fine, but when it's done and I restart it, it hangs on a black screen and says "/dev/sda1: clean, 121444/370208 files, 654953/1478400 blocks" and has a blinking cursor. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[mörgæs]

Hi, welcome to the fora.

My guess is that you have Intel graphics. We see a lot of these cases with Lubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2323514

[bobapplepie]

Thanks for the help. I followed the instructions on an old thread and got it working.

[mörgæs]

Good, please post the solution and mark the thread 'solved'.

[bobapplepie]

Solution: I went into the options menu in grub and added "nomodeset" after the words "quiet splash." Then I used Synaptic to install the packages "xserver-xorg-video-intel" and "xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg" and then rebooted the computer.