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I was delighted when my daughter asked me to convert her laptop to Ubuntu after being very disappointed with Windows 10, so quick as a flash I built a new 14.04.3 LTS USB and tried to 'Try Ubuntu without installing'...

And it just freezes at the splash screen.

Checking a number of posts, I have updated the BIOS to the latest version and when I run the boot in verbose mode, it just hangs after the comment

*Starting system logging daemon

I've not had a problem either installing Ubuntu before (either full drive, dual boot and Ubuntu Studio) so any help would be greatly appricated so I can get my daughter back into real computing.

Prashant Chikhalkar
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Ok I think I have solved it: I used USB 2 to install and in the bios changed 'OS SELECTION to WINDOWS 7 ( Instead of Windows 8 ) '

Works for me.

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  • Beyond amazing! That did the very trick! My daughter is going to be delighted when she gets home to her 'new' computer! The question I would ask - for my own information - why would the OS selection in BIOS make a difference? – JaysPlays Sep 04 '15 at 08:36
  • Not sure why this was downvoted. This worked for me too! (Although my use case was to boot an existing 14.04 install with a 3.13 kernel. Previously only 3.5 kernels had booted.) – joeytwiddle Nov 30 '15 at 06:55