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i just installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and can't boot anymore. Neither the default installation, nor manual partitioning worked.

My last configuration can be seen here.

As you can see I already tried Boot-Repair, but it made no difference.

I exchanged the HDD by a SSD 2 years ago. Installing Ubuntu 14.04 worked. Now I wanted to make a fresh install with Ubuntu GNOME 16.04, but nothing worked.

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Have you tried switching boot mode in your BIOS?

I don't know if your computer is currently set to Legacy or UEFI, but I presume it is currently set to legacy. Change it to UEFI and see what happens.

Cheers

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  • There is no such option in the bios, the notebook is 7 years old i think and i doubt there is an update.
    – Philipp Wrann
    May 23, 2016 at 17:56
  • I doubt Gnome is going to run well on 7 year old hardware. I suggest using something like Ubuntu MATE: ubuntu-mate.org
    – Bram Koert
    May 23, 2016 at 18:06
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Soo, well... in the third try i did the following partitioning:

1) primary [boot] - ext4 - 2GB - /boot 2) logical - swap - 4GB 3) logical - ext4 - REST-OF-SPACE - /

Installed and works. I made some bootrepair runs in between and tried to fix MBR, etc - nothing worked. So i think the solution could be (i may blame myself here because i do NOT have the knowhow to tell for sure), that the first partition needs to have the boot flag and the boot mount on that specific BIOS version.

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