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mbsquare55
March 17th, 2018, 04:30 AM
In installed ubuntu 16.04.2 on Dell XPS8930 desktop alongside with windows 10. In live mode everything is fine, but when I boot into ubuntu I have only purple screen and nothing else. Tried to add to grub nomodeset, does not help. Any suggestions?

oldfred
March 20th, 2018, 04:35 PM
Dells usually just work. But may need some UEFI settings or boot parameters.

May be best to see details, you can run from your Ubuntu live installer or any working install, use ppa version not older Boot-Repair ISO:
Post the link to the Create BootInfo summary report. Is part of Boot-Repair:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info and:
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/

May be similar?
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https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2370434
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https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2360929