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I recently installed 12.04 alongside Windows 8 on my ASUS laptop. I ran boot repair after the install in order for grub to show up and let me have a choice between windows and Ubuntu. However, upon choosing Ubuntu the system hangs at a purple screen and the recovery mode goes to black. I have integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000). Please let me know what information I need to provide/how to get that information. I've been through multiple posts on this issue but the solutions didn’t seem applicable since I don’t have access to a terminal. Any help would be very appreciated.

Attempts at fixing this: Editing the kernel by removing quiet splash, replacing with nomodeset, no splash, and all other similar suggestions. RESULT: No effect. No dump of information on the screen. Additionally, Ctrl+X would not work. Had to F10 out of the editor.

Should I reinstall? Installing it through my flash drive (the current installation) alongside Windows 8 was very sketchy. I had to make three partitions one for the ext4 file system, one for swap, and one for a reserved boot space.

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  • possible duplicated askubuntu.com/questions/162075/…
    – Braiam
    Sep 20, 2013 at 16:33
  • I have looked at the above possible link. It addresses Nvidia and AMD but i am running integrated Intel graphics. Replacing "quiet splash" with "no splash" and "nomodeset" still leaves me at a purple screen if in fact I edited things correctly.
    – Zeke
    Sep 20, 2013 at 16:57
  • actually you only have to "delete quiet splash" not "replace quite splash"
    – Braiam
    Sep 20, 2013 at 17:13
  • no dice. It seems like whatever I enter into the kernel has no effect on the purple screen. I'm stumpted as to how to proceed.
    – Zeke
    Sep 20, 2013 at 17:30
  • Edit your question and add every attempt to fix this. Also, if you delete the quiet splash there should be a dump of information scrolling in the screen, can you take a picture and add it in your question?
    – Braiam
    Sep 20, 2013 at 17:52

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Some newer Intel need this instead of nomodeset.

Asus i3 with Intel graphics:

acpi_osi=Linux video=1280x1024-24@75

or whatever native resolution is

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  • Tried the above line with 1366x768 (the max res on my laptop). Still got to a purple screen.
    – Zeke
    Sep 20, 2013 at 17:45

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