Before the black screen with blinking cursor, I get the Ubuntu loading screen. I can use the tty terminal.
A comment under the answer here: "dev/sda1: clean, ..." This message appears after I startup my laptop, then it won't continue booting Says that a similar issue is probably due to the incorrect graphics driver being used. If this is so, how do I know which is one is wrong and vise versa?
I have an Acer Spin, and it's the the one that doesn't have full bios, only uefi, so no legacy mode option and no ptt security option. It seems I'm pretty stuck.
I have Intel processor core i5, Intel graphics controller HD graphics 620 ddr4 sdram i915.
I have access to a live boot USB of Ubuntu 16.04, and it works.