12.04 alongside Win7 HP Pavillion i386 chipset black screen on boot

Asked by Mark Wetzel

I used the Wubi to install 12.04 alongside WIn7 on a brand new HP Pavillion G7 with the i386 shipset. On reboot I get the now infamous black screen. I made a CD and using nomodeset as a boot option I can boot via CD. When I select to install 12.04 then it immediately tells me to remove the CD and it then attempts to reboot to where we all began.

It appears to acknowledge that I have 12.04 installed however that obviously is a bad decision.

Where do I go next?

I searhed launchpad and haven;t found anything exactly similar. Most seem to be having problems with the Nvidia driver, however i hae the Intel chipset.v

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Hold shift at boot and reapply the nomodeset option

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Mark Wetzel (mark-wetzel) said :
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Since this is a Wubi install I edited the boot options in \ubuntu\install\wubidr-disk.cfg, however it stll behaves the same.

As a work around I can boot to recovery mode and it boots fine.

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Mark Wetzel (mark-wetzel) said :
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Update. I also edited grub2 and then updated grub.cfg and I seem to have fixed the problem.