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sunwarr10r
Asked: 2021-01-09 22:44:14 +0800 CST

XPS 15: Black screen with blinking cursor after update

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I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 along with Windows 10 on XPS15 9500 and everything worked fine until Ubuntu asked me to do some updates. I clicked ok and after the updates finished I rebooted the system and landed on a black screen with a blinking cursor.

What works is: alt + ctrl + F4 so that I land on tty4, then I can click: alt + ← OR → which brings me from tty2 to tty6, if I click further I land either on tty1 or tty7 (where the login GUI is, which I have expected to be there by default).

So I would like to know how to land on the Login GUI by default without the black screen at the beginning?

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2 Answers

  1. The solution was:

    sudo nano /etc/default/grub

    Find the line with the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, and add nomodeset to the variables, so it looks like this:

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

    Then update-grub:

    sudo update-grub
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  2. Have you done selected correct settings while making live making live usb because I also faced same issue while installing Ubuntu It was working fine but after rebooting it disspeared and the grub screen was not present so I refer rufus software while making a live usb and selecting GPT or MBR partitioning scheme according to your laptop.

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