Ubuntu / Lubuntu Boot issues IBM Lenovo T60

**dorag** · February 6th, 2018

Hello I'm kinda to using Ubuntu / Lubuntu I know a bit about the terminal and its commands etc however after installing Lubuntu alongside Windows XP it loads to a black screen saying dev/sda1: clean, 552599/6111232 files, 7119295/24414464 blocks (this isn't exactly what my device said the numbers will be different but is the same message) It just stays on this screen permanently the only way to get it to load is to edit the grub and add nomodeset to the command line and it runs fine.

On the other side if I install Ubuntu everything is fine no issues after installing it loads right to the desktop.

**dorag** · February 18th, 2018

Anyone got any ideas?

**Impavidus** · February 18th, 2018

There shouldn't really be a difference between Ubuntu and Lubuntu as long as they run the same kernel. Different releases may be different though.

You already solved the problem yourself: add nomodeset.

To make this change permanent, you have to edit /etc/default/grub and run update-grub. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/3878...stalled-ubuntu. Use the answer by Coldfish. I think it's still valid.

**oldfred** · February 18th, 2018

You normally only need nomodeset until you install the proprietary video driver from Ubuntu's repostory?
Do you have nVidia or AMD?
And what video card/chip?
If you can boot:
sudo lshw -c display