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Ubuntu boots in command line, please help!

Asked by Jwad Aziz

One day, I decided that i wanted Ubuntu. I went to a cousin's house downloaded Ubuntu on a flash drive and came back to my own. i booted from the flash drive and tried to run Ubuntu from that. When i clicked the option, it beeped and did nothing. I tried that with every other option and the same thing happened. I went to the help tab and clicked on that. I pressed F3 and it told me to write install in the command line and press enter. I did just that and an error told me it was unable to find the ISO image or something like that.
The other option to install it was to type in expert and install everything manually. I did that, and it worked. It took me to a screen where i installed things separately. After I did everything, thinking I did it right(which I most likely didn't) i clicked finish installation and when it booted again I removed my flash drive and it took me to a big black screen with options on it. I waited and it automatically went on with the boot. It then took me to another black screen looking much like command prompt for windows. It told me to enter my hostname and password which i did and it started a command line.
WHAT THE HECK? Why didn't it take me to Ubuntu's loading screen? is it possible to get there from the command line? If i did something wrong, what was it and how would I fix it? Did I install it on the USB wrong? I can't boot into windows and install it manually because i completely overwrote windows with Ubuntu. I am completely dumbstruck. have no idea what to do.

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Steven Richards (steven.richards) said : 		#1

Sounds like you installed fine, that black screen you saw was most likely the grub bootloader and the default option could've been set on recovery mode for your ubuntu installation. When you see that black screen again try moving your selection up and down using the arrow keys and hitting enter onto the installation that isn't for recovery console.

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Dermot Haughey (hderms) said : 		#2

Jwad, when your system boots up, are you given some kind of prompt that asks for your username and password? If this is the case (whether it asks for it in a graphical window, or pure text), you can easily correct any problem you may be having. It sounds to me that you are more comfortable with a graphical environment. What I would then recommend is to either A. re-install Ubuntu with a fresh install CD (not entirely necessary, but since there is nothing important on your disk at the moment), or you can attempt to start a graphical environment (xorg) from the console. As of now I am uncertain whether ubuntu is installed properly, and so I can not instruct you further.

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