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I forgot to close my laptop or lock the screen before I went to work the other day, and when I came home my laptop was stuck on a black screen. I should also mention I have a cat who loves to walk and sit on my keyboard and I feel like she was probably the cause of this(I left bash open). I can get to grub when I restart, but if I try to boot with Ubuntu I just get the black screen again. I can't access the login page. I also have Windows 8.1 installed and I can boot that with no problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Edit: I think it may be an issue with my drivers for my graphics card. I have an AMD Radeon HD 8510G. I haven't been able to bypass the black screen to update my drivers though. There was another post about this but the instructions weren't working for me. I tried changing quiet splash to nomodeset and radeon.modeset=0 but I still get the black screen when I boot.

Shelby
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Try Grub Rescue and type this:
ls (then select the portion that has Grub Installed)
ls (Portion name) set root=(Partion name) set prefix=(partion name)/boot/grub insmod normal normal
I recommend writing this down because until your computer updates this will continue to happen so I recommend updating ASAP

Hershey Gamer
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  • Sorry, I'm still pretty new to Linux/Ubuntu. How do you get to Grub Rescue? Also, once I'm there I'm not sure if I'll know what to put for the portion and partition names. – Shelby Sep 05 '16 at 18:03
  • Is there no option to go to grub rescue? If not then what I thought was wrong also I accidentally spelled Partion sorry. I have never seen a problem like this so I'm sorry I couldn't help – Hershey Gamer Sep 05 '16 at 20:04