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How could you possibly install Ubuntu on a MSI Prestige Laptop?, mine has some problems also when booting on Ubuntu, it freezes right after it starts loading the Ubuntu Logo, i had tried legacy and csm with legacy, but it still isn't working correctly, and also, does ubuntu work on a Realtek HD Sound Card? thanks for replying -EDIT-

And my Graphics Card is Nvidia Geforce 960M, Processor is Intel HQ6700 i7 Skylake Processor, so does ubuntu support the recent Intel Skylake Processors?

~Martin Josef

Martin Josef
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  • Two other threads with similar systems: Failing to Boot Ubuntu 16.10 in MSI GP72 http://askubuntu.com/questions/838212/failing-to-boot-ubuntu-16-10-in-msi-gp72 [SOLVED] MSI GT72S 6QE - Freezes on boot unless acpi=off is used http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2303544 – oldfred Dec 13 '16 at 21:29

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I have a MSI GE62 with i7-6700 Skylake and Nvidia GTX970M, and It finally works with ubuntu 16.04 so here are the different steps:

  1. BIOS: Enter the Bios by pressing the delete key.
    Choose UEFI-disable Secureboot and disable Fastboot(for Fastboot maybe its not obligatory)
    By installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: type the e key to access the Grub and it must look like that: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
  2. Now Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed you must change the GRUB: Please type in the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) :
    gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Then you will see a text editor that will open with the grub configuration file. I changed mine and my Grub configuration file looks like this :

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modeset=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
  1. now type: sudo update-grub

  2. update your kernel:

    sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install ukuu

  3. Restart your computer by typing: sudo reboot
    Please note the only line I changed in the Grub configuration file is this one: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modeset=1"

  4. Please also note it may take a few reboots with some updates of Ubuntu so that your computer can be turned on and turned off normally
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