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When I type my password, it only shows what is being typed in the top left and doesn't actually input the password

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You need to disable the "splash" screen. Once you power on, when it asks to choose the operating system (Ubuntu, Advanced, etc.) , press E . It will take you to another screen, remove the string "splash" from the line which says something like "quiet splash video="...

Press Ctrl+X to boot without splash.

After the system boots up, to save this change, you need to modify the file /etc/default/grub and remove "splash" from the line beginning with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=".

Don't forget to do a

sudo update-grub
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    They can't do this if their drive is encrypted typically.
    – Thomas Ward
    Nov 28, 2018 at 18:20
  • @tw: It's possible, but you have to boot from LiveUbuntu, mount the crypted hd (of course you need the valid pwd phrase) and make a chroot.
    – abu_bua
    Nov 28, 2018 at 19:10
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In the end I reinstalled Ubuntu with Secure Boot disabled and not encrypting the drive

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I had the same problem. It appears to occur if you set the VM's ram to 1024 (the default) and OS runs out of memory.

To fix: turn off the VM, go to settings and change the RAM under Memory to 2048.

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