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I struggled to install Ubuntu on my laptop after a disaster happened when I was using Windows 8. All the partitions were wrong and I had to search the forums for the correct ones. The last ones I tried (with a live USB install) after a lot of failed installations were:

  • /dev/sda5 swap 2gig (logical)
  • /dev/sda6 ext3 7gig (logical)
  • /dev/sda7 ext7 310gig (logical)

It finished the installation successfully, but whenever I boot up the machine the only thing that appears is a blank command line that I can't write on no matter what I do. I re-loaded the live USB and it does detect the OS. I don't want to re-install it again without knowing what to do. (I am installing Ubuntu 12.04)

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Are you manually partitioning the drive? I'm pretty sure swap should be in it's own extended partition; at least this is the default. – Mark Paskal Feb 10 at 1:24

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