No display upon installing ubuntu

Welcome. Try this. When you boot from the install media, you will see a purple screen with a little icon down the bottom. Hit a key (any key from memory, but try F6 also if none work). That should take you to the options screen.

In there, you'll see 'Try Ubuntu' 'Install Ubuntu', etc. Hit the F6 key. A pop-up should appear. Choose 'nomodeset' then proceed with the boot and 'Try Ubuntu'.

Get anywhere? The nomodeset method can also be used if you have already installed and are having this issue, just a different way of going about it. Have you installed already and now you get a black screen or you are trying to install and only getting that far?

(PS: We don't officially support Mint here so please stick with your Ubuntu discoveries as we dig deeper, but good to know that the same happens in Mint. If the solution above works with Ubuntu, though, it should work with Mint also. )

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