System not booting with nVidia graphics card and NOMODESET in grub

Question

Installed Linux Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Booted to black screen
Probably cause of NVidia Graphics Card
Tried to boot replacing quiet splash with nomodeset in the grub menu and then:

Nomodeset mode boots to another dead end. This adding swap thing lasts for a couple of minutes and then goes to black screen.

What can I do to resolve this?

Possible duplicate of My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? — David Foerster, May 14 '16 at 11:49
Can you boot by adding this to the end of the linux line?: "nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1280x1024x24" — clankill3r, May 16 '16 at 11:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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if you have an internal graphics card in addition to your nvidea graphics card you can try to temporarily remove the nvidea card (or disable it in BIOS/UEFI), install ubuntu, then the nvidea drivers and finally reactivate the nvidea card: see also this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/755667/538840

or you can try to use ubuntu 16.04, which may already include the relevant drivers.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered May 14 '16 at 11:38

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System not booting with nVidia graphics card and NOMODESET in grub

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