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Abhishek Kamal
Asked: 2021-10-02 16:54:22 +0800 CST

My laptop is not booting after running "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall"

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My laptop has 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650.
I am using dual boot (Ubuntu 21.04 + Windows 10).
Today I used a command -

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

After it I reboot my laptop and choose for boot with Ubuntu from Grub menu. But my laptop is not booting with Ubuntu now. Continues with black screen and a white blinking cursor at the top left corner.

What should I do ?

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2 Answers

  1. I recommend doing this:

    Can you get to a plain terminal shell? Try hitting Ctrl Alt 3 and logging in that way. if that works, do this after getting a terminal shell.

    Can you boot into safe mode? if so, go into safe/recovery mode and try this How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ?

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  2. There a few things you could try. Diable Windows 10 fast start: [https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1045548][1]

    Reboot into Ubuntu. If you still get the ominous blinking cursor, hit CTRL+ALT+F3, and log in from there. Type sudo apt-get -f install Look at the errors, if any.

    If you can't get to a terminal, reboot into Ubuntu and hit 'e' really quick. That will bring up the boot layout of GRUB. At the end of the kernel line put /bin/bash or init 1 Then hit CTRL+x.

    Enter the root password, if you made one. Otherwise, I'm not sure how Ubuntu handles login from init 1 But once you're in, sudo apt-get -f install again.

    If none of that works, but you can get to a terminal, or log into init level one init 1 try sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-driver then reboot or gdm3

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