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The first things I did was boot into Windows and flash the bios t the latest 1.3.4.

I then made a USB stick with usb-creator-gtk (on my other laptop) and installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.3 with the following partitions replacing the Windows partition:

/boot: 2GB
/    : 65GB
/home: 92GB
swap: 16GB (RAM is 16GB)
rest (~340GB) left unused to make an encrypted data partition with gnome-disks.

When booting up with the USB the it gets stuck at the Ubuntu Gnome logo. And once I was lucky to be able to install it it also kept getting stuck at the same place.

I turned off secure boot and UEFI. I tried combinations of these as well.

The weird thing is this doesn't happen with Ubuntu Gnome 17 (and Ubuntu server) even though I installed it with UEFI enabled. Also, the grub menu includes entries for the Windows Boot Manager and System Stratup but those weren't included when I installed 16.04.3

I haven't found anything that answers my question. I think it's a kernel problem because the Ubuntu server I installed (without eth network) has kernel version 4.4.0.

Regarding graphics, the laptop comes with an NVIDIA GTX 1050 card.

Solution (use nomodeset) provided in the comments by MichaelBay. Follow this during both the installation until you update the system and install the drivers.

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    it could be your graphics driver, provide details about your hardware – techvish81 Aug 13 '17 at 14:59
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    UEFI has NVRAM so it remembers old entries. And the ESP - efi system partition will probably still have the /EFI/Microsoft folder, so grub finds Microsoft boot files (only delete Microsoft folder, not Ubuntu folder). You can use efibootmgr to remove old UEFI entries. Install: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2357321 & Similar 9360: http://askubuntu.com/questions/884991/ubuntu-16-10-dual-boot-error-grub-efi-amd64-signed-package-failed-to-install & http://askubuntu.com/questions/867488/dell-xps-13-9360-dualboot-windows-10-and-ubuntu-16-04?noredirect=1#comment1344306_867488 – oldfred Aug 13 '17 at 15:09
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    @techvish81 I've added it. It's an NVIDIA GTX 1050 – user10853 Aug 13 '17 at 15:18
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    You need Nvidia proprietary drivers. Open Additional Drivers, select and apply the recommended version. Reboot. –  Aug 13 '17 at 16:25
  • @MichaelBay I can't install in the first place. The only two I managed to install and present no problems (i.e. don't get stuck) are Ubuntu Desktop 17.04 and the server 16.04 – user10853 Aug 13 '17 at 17:09
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    You need nomodeset until you install the Nvidia drivers and this means adding it to the "Try Ubuntu" when booting the installer and then also in the new installation, again, until you install the drivers and no more after that. You can use this as a guide: https://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu –  Aug 13 '17 at 17:13
  • @MichaelBay I just switched from GPU to CPU in the NVIDIA X Server Settings and rebooted. I got stuck the same as before. I used nomodeset and installed the X.org server then reinstalled NVIDIA (I thought maybe that would revert things back). But the problem persists. – user10853 Sep 07 '17 at 18:34
  • Update: It is solved by choosing the X.org rebooting and then choosing the Nvidia and rebooting again. Maybe the first time I did that without rebooting in between the two installations. – user10853 Sep 07 '17 at 19:10

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