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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Dennis, there was a delay. At least 15 minutes. And it didn't start up normally. It never showed the Dell screen. It never showed the Xubuntu screen. It just showed the DDR3 and Master/Slave stuff. Then that disappeared and 'Loading Operating System' came on, then the screen went black and a 'no input signal' came on. Only after 15 minutes or so and only after I rolled the mouse did the screen come on (fully opened).
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Like I said, you couldn't see anything.
The fact that the fully opened screen
did appear later, after you gave input in the form of mouse movement, indicates that things
were happening behind the curtain. My suspicion is the kernel loaded and the system got at least part way through the boot process before trouble occurred. It
did eventually fully boot.
When I reboot here, the first thing I see is the Dell screen, but that's displayed by the system BIOS. An OS has not yet been loaded. The next thing I see is the grub boot menu, offering me a choice of Ubuntu, Win10, or Win7, and defaulting to Ubuntu if I don't specify otherwise at that point.
I have Enlightenment, a couple of flavors of Gnome, LXDE, Unity, and XFCE installed as GUIs, and can select which to use from the Login screen. The default is the last one used.
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The computer no longer boots from the power switch. It only boots from the GRUB loader and only the 15.10 kernel. Not the two 16.04 kernels that are there. It used to boot from the power switch to the latest 16.04 kernel but no longer does.
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I'm not quite sure what you mean.
If I power cycle, I see what I mentioned above. It sounds like what you expect is to go automatically into Ubuntu with no grub screen. Personally, I wouldn't want that, even if I didn't dual boot. Grub lets you do things like select an older kernel to boot from in the event of unexpected problems.
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Dennis