After intitial installation, Ubuntu 18.04 boots to blank screen...and I mean blank... no cursor, no splash screen, nothing.
The install process went flawlessly, but after initial reboot, it always boots to a blank screen. I have tried this several times using several different USB sticks from several different download sources.
On this same computer, I have installed Manjaro, Fedora, Opensuse and LMDE without any problems. Debian didn't boot to a blank screen, but the resolution was AFU/unusable. Linux Mint(all DE) gives me the same problem...always boots to a blank screen and no possibility to enter GRUB menu.
My question is, how can I enter the GRUB menu?
I've seen about 75 trillion posts about this on the internet, so this is obviously a common problem, but every suggestion that I've read doesn't work for me.
I've tried -- escape, space, shift(both) repeatedly pressing and/or holding down, nothing has worked.
I'm not ranting here, and I understand/appreciate all of the effort/work that has gone into all Linux distros, butI have to ask myself...why in the hell isn't the GRUB menu defaulted to display upon start-up in case people have any problems?? Surely this would save a boatload of posts on many forums...I have been on many and read many similar problems, but never a DEFINITIVE solution.
Like I said, I appreciate all of the hard work that has ggone into these distros- but sometimes I think they're not helping themselves...maybe a sticky of some kind when you download Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, "if system boots to blank screen" do this; with specific terminal commands.
If it don't work, it don't work.
Thanks for your help
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