Linux hanging at boot after fsck

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Apologies for the bad photo but it's a big hassle to type it out as a dualboot user:

It hangs there for ages, no matter how long I leave it. I've had this twice and the first time I reinstalled. Both happened after restarting after installing NVIDIA drivers (ensuring that the installation finished first)

Tried manually doing the fsdk from a livecd and it didn't help the problem.

What is your graphics adapter? Which drivers did you install and how? — Pilot6, Oct 14 '15 at 22:44
Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' terminal command. — Pilot6, Oct 14 '15 at 22:45
I can't exactly remember which drivers I installed. I have 2 NVIDIA GTX 760s in SLI. It was some single terminal command to install some Steam OpenGL dependency. Will post output in a minute when I switch over — lordnoob, Oct 14 '15 at 23:01
Here's the output for the command - again, sorry for the abhorrent photo quality: http://i.imgur.com/mP1wsOZ.jpg — lordnoob, Oct 14 '15 at 23:15

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 23:16

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You need to install proprietary Nvidia drivers. Run in terminal

sudo apt-get install nvidia-346

and reboot.

answered Oct 14 '15 at 23:16

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On my rescue cd thing it apt-get doesn't work (unknown command). Bearing in mind that the only way I've been able to access the console is this bootable USB, (recovery mode even hangs), how should I go about executing this command? – lordnoob Oct 14 '15 at 23:22
boot with nomodeset http://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it Then install the driver. – Pilot6 Oct 14 '15 at 23:24
Is it just the general pendrive/live installation that works (I have a similar thing with another distro - debian, and was wondering if I could save some time and use that), or should I specifically use Ubuntu? – lordnoob Oct 14 '15 at 23:26
Hi can you help me? So when I boot into the live installation, I need network drivers to get the package. How can I include network drivers with the live install? – lordnoob Oct 14 '15 at 23:52
You need network drivers? How old is that dinosaur of a computer you have? – Daniel Oct 15 '15 at 00:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

To all users from future

Solution:

IN GRUB click e and in wall of text replace :

quiet splash

with

nomodeset

(RUN ctrl+x) This is temporary to make it permanent use grub-customizer

It should run now.

If you are stuck in login loop, do this:

First in tty (ctrl + alt + f1)

sudo apt remove --purge nvidia*

ctrl+alt+f7 to go back, log in and:

https://askubuntu.com/a/848668/657988

This was the only answer that help me install newest drivers on GTX960M

Linux hanging at boot after fsck

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