Uninstalling the nvidia binary driver (367.57) and moving back to
Nouveau "fixed" the problem for me. The reproducibility of this problem
seems to dependent on the nvidia video card model, as I have another
workstation with another nvidia card model and the other one had no
issue with the boot prom
I've done a fresh install of 16.04.1 desktop amd64 this weekend; after
the first kernel upgrade from 4.4.0-31 to 4.4.0-57, it refused to boot.
I had to manually select -31 back in grub to be able to boot the system.
In my case, /etc/crypttab is my root partition so I can't comment it
out. I'm surp
Same problem with nvidia NVS 450 with 3 monitors. I got it to work
intermittently with only one monitor connect with similar to comment #10
but slightly more newbie-proof:
Close any open application.
If in X, you need to kill and and switch to a text terminal with the following:
open a terminal
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