Ubuntu boots to black screen after restart but works after being shutdown

Question

I've been facing a strange issue with my Ubuntu for a considerable time now.

If I reboot it, it will be stuck in a black screen after grub. If I completely shutdown it, it will boot normally.

It's been this way long before I upgraded to 17.04. I think it started happening when I migrated my "primary partition" from an HDD to a SSD.

How do I fix this?

OS Info:

• Ubuntu 17.04 64-bit (dev branch)
• GNOME Shell 3.24.0
• NVIDIA 378.13
• GRUB 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2 (for dual boot with WIN10)
• Samsung SSD 850 250GB (Primary SSD)
• TOSHIBA MK6461GS 640GB (Secondary HDD)

• Partition information:

  sda      8:0    0 232.9G  0 disk 
  ├─sda1   8:1    0   100M  0 part 
  ├─sda2   8:2    0    60G  0 part /media/WIN10
  ├─sda3   8:3    0 124.7G  0 part /media/SSD
  ├─sda4   8:4    0     1K  0 part 
  ├─sda5   8:5    0  40.1G  0 part /
  └─sda6   8:6    0     8G  0 part [SWAP]
  sdb      8:16   0 596.2G  0 disk 
  ├─sdb1   8:17   0  39.2M  0 part 
  ├─sdb2   8:18   0     8G  0 part 
  ├─sdb4   8:20   0     1K  0 part 
  └─sdb5   8:21   0 588.1G  0 part /media/HDD
  

Answer 1

After some more meddling, I've found a solution: just edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash reboot=pci" and run sudo update-grub (or do the same using grub-customizer).

Other possible values:

• warm - don’t set the cold reboot flag
• cold - set the cold reboot flag
• bios - reboot by jumping through the BIOS (only for X86_32)
• smp (reboot by executing reset on BSP or other CPU - only for X86_32)
• triple - force a triple fault - init
• kbd - use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
• acpi - use the RESET_REG in the FADT
• efi - use efi reset_system runtime service
• pci - use the so-called “PCI reset register”, CF9
• force - avoid anything that could hang