Hi all,
You can usually get around this issue caused by Nvidia/Nouveau weirdness at boot by using the boot parameter 'nomodeset' when installing, and on first boot after installation. When booting the live disk (in UEFI mode), you'll get a GRUB menu. Go ahead and select 'Install Ubuntu' and press `e` to edit GRUB before boot. Change the `linux` line:
Code:
linux /casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
to:
Code:
linux /casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash nomodeset vga=791 ---
So, you're just appending it to the `linux` line. Press F10 to boot in this configuration. You might need to do the same thing after the initial boot. In one case (a Sys76 Bonobo) we had to boot using Recovery Mode, enable networking, then resume normal boot where we could install the Nvidia drivers from our repository, though you could certainly use the graphics-drivers Nvidia repo as well. After installing Nvidia drivers, the system would reboot without issue.
Good luck, and happy computing
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