13.10 new install not booting in W530

[railmeat2]

I just installed 13.10 desktop on my Thinkpad w530. The install ran fine, with no reported errors. When I restarted I got a black screen. I am not sure if Linux started properly and cannot display, or if the initialization did not complete.

I can start up Live Linux from the USB stick.

Anyone know how to fix this?

How can I troubleshoot?

I have not found anything that directly addresses this in the forums. I did see a suggestion to add "nomodeset" to a line in grub and tried that to no effect.

[oldfred]

Just to confirm it is installed correctly.
Post the link to the Create BootInfo report. Is part of Boot-Repair:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info

What video chip do you have? If Intel different boot parameters than nomodeset may be required.

At grub menu you can use e for edit, scroll to linux line and replace quiet splash with nomodeset.
How to set NOMODESET and other kernel boot options in grub2 - both BIOS liveCD & grub first boot ( also UEFI with grub)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132
Possible boot options suggested by ubfan1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...0#post12871710

[railmeat2]

This is resolved by setting nomodeset on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line of /etc/default/grub, then running sudo update-grub.

All seems well now.