I have a HP Pro 3130 MT and just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. When I restart, instead of getting a ubuntu logo or going to the login page, the OS takes me to the grub2 screen that has the "Advanced options" but the astrick(*) is next to Ubuntu. I don't understand why I am not getting a normal boot to the login screen.
I figured I might be having graphics problems so I try to boot into recovery mode using the Advanced options but after I select recovery mode and hit enter, I never make it past the loading linux kernal text. I just get a frozen cursor underneath the text.
Here's the lspci
information about my graphics chipset:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a9c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at fb800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
So I changed the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
line in /etc/default/grub
to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
but that didn't work. So I changed it one more time to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modest=1"
, but I am still unable to boot correctly.
I am really confused because the live disk works just fine.