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I'm a newbie to Linux and tried to install Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Desktop (link). I had 25.1 GB of free disk on C Drive and followed this tutorial to install it with my USB drive.

After entering the Boot screen on my laptop and choosing "UEFI" -> Install Ubuntu, this screen appeared. I spent the whole night waiting for it to load, but after 8 hours nothing happened.

I've tried searching the internet but didn't see a solution that actually works on my laptop. I turned it off and turned it on with Windows 10, and saw that C drive only has 17.7 GB free disk now.

PC information Graphic card: NVidia 1050 Ti.

Edit 1: [ESC] when loading: screenshot, screenshot

Tian Shuo
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    If you have nVidia, you need nomodeset boot option for both installer and first boot or until you install nVidia driver from Ubuntu (not from nVidia). Make sure fast start up is off in Windows (note that Windows updates will turn it back on). Ubuntu cannot see your NTFS partitions if hibernated. http://askubuntu.com/questions/843153/ubuntu-16-showing-windows-10-partitions & https://askubuntu.com/questions/221835/installing-ubuntu-alongside-a-pre-installed-windows-with-uefi – oldfred Sep 03 '18 at 18:45
  • @oldfred thank you for your kind help! But I can't understand very well and don't know what exactly to do after reading the two posts. I have attached screenshots in my edit. Can you explain further? – Tian Shuo Sep 03 '18 at 19:12
  • Are you booting live installer in UEFI mode? Then you manually add in grub menu ( e for edit) nomodeset to linux line in place of quiet splash parameters. If that is still an issue then additional parameters may be required. But I still get the AE_ type errors & system works fine. – oldfred Sep 03 '18 at 19:36
  • @oldfred yes I am using UEFI. Being a complete noob, I don't understand what the rest means. How do I "manually add in grub" and do everything else? – Tian Shuo Sep 03 '18 at 19:38
  • The delay/freeze is probably the installer looking for other partitions and a fast start/hibernation in Windows prevents it from seeing it, and stops. Skip the BIOS boot screen examples and see the UEFI with grub examples. http://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it – oldfred Sep 03 '18 at 21:30
  • @oldfred Unfortunately I can't see any of the screenshots in the link. Just an Ubuntu sign I posted above. – Tian Shuo Sep 04 '18 at 00:12
  • You should be getting the purple BIOS boot screen or the UEFI grub menu for UEFI boot. Are you pressing extra keys, so it goes to next step? If not, I might try different flash drive, different installer and verify that download was correct. – oldfred Sep 04 '18 at 03:33
  • @oldfred thank you. Changed to nomodeset and done. – Tian Shuo Sep 04 '18 at 04:27

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You get it wrong about installing Ubuntu at all! you can't install Ubuntu in that way, however your problem is not related to installation progress, but to booting it from your CD (or any other similar devices like USB).

Please try again, but when you see this loading page, please use esc key on your keyboard, now you can see a black terminal with white lines. It will freeze on some level of loading (probably loading kernel modules related to your graphic card). Just attach that screen, so we can see what is your main problem...

Hamid Yousefi
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  • Edited. Can you please check? – Tian Shuo Sep 03 '18 at 19:09
  • Based on your monitors frame, you have same laptop to me :) MSI GE63 or similar model. MSI has too much problem with Linux Kernels all the time. If you try the MSI Support center, they will just give you: We recommended windows... Anyway, I was right about modules! for booting the Ubuntu you need to disable your acpi from boot record. really I don't remember how we could edit load parameters when we loading from external devices (I do it mostly with grub2) but in your case it is not suitable way to fix it. – Hamid Yousefi Sep 03 '18 at 19:14
  • There is no easy way for you as much as I know. sorry man. Maybe others can help you for adding acpi=off flag on booting the OS from external device... – Hamid Yousefi Sep 03 '18 at 19:16
  • This is an HP Omen laptop, not MSI :-). Still, thank you for your help. – Tian Shuo Sep 03 '18 at 19:24