What I found works is a modification of Chenxi Yang's answer above. The sequence of events in those instructions was incomplete and some steps were unnecessary. However, I thank Chenxi Yang for the step of editing the grub startup by pressing e in grub and adding nomodeset
. That is the key. What worked for me for Ubuntu 18.04 was:
- When booting from Ubuntu 18.04 install media from either the first or second item in the grub list, press e.
- Replace the
---
after splash with nomodeset
, and push F10. As the previous answer states, this will bypass the ACPI error, which seems to be with the Intel graphics and not NVIDIA.
- Let the system startup. Run the
Install Ubuntu 18.04...
.
- After installation, remove the install media and allow the system to restart. However, you need to boot into the grub menu. If it is not setup to go into grub automatically, press Esc during initial bootup to go into the grub menu.
- In the grub menu, press e on the top choice (boot Ubuntu normally).
- Edit the line that starts with "linux" and change the end of the line where it says
splash $vt_handoff
to splash nomodeset
(no quotes). Hit F10 to continue booting.
- Once into Ubuntu, edit
/etc/default/grub
(e.g sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
)
- Find the line that says:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Change it to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
- Save the file and close it.
- In a terminal, run:
sudo update-grub2
Reboot. Then you should be able to boot correctly and you can install the NVIDIA drivers if you want. You can also choose the drivers from the Software & Updates App