Hopefully this feedback will help improve the installer, or others that are having problems.

acpi=off (note that whilst the system will boot, it is slow, screen refresh rate is poor - manifesting in jerky mouse movements or juddery movement when moving/resizing windows, and the system fails to power off when shutting down or rebooting).

Any one of the following kernel parameters will allow the system to boot properly:.

AT THIS STAGE, THE OS WILL NOT BOOT CORRECTLY - THE SCREEN IS DARK - NOTHING APPEARS.Choose “Nvidia driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-390”. Open “Software & Updates”, “Additional Drivers” tab.sign up for Canonical Livepatch and update OS.Boot into 18.04 for the first time (requires kernel parameter ‘nomodeset’, but the installer has already added this - Nice!).

(Both the live OS and the ‘install’ option require kernel parameter ‘nomodeset’). Realtek Audio Drivers for my InspiSeries So I had been having audio problems with my laptop for a while, so I saw as a common solution was to uninstall the Realtek Audio Driver through the device manager and reinstall it. After struggling with days trying to manually install the current Nvidia driver, I found that “software & Updates” will do it for me - almost.

Inspiron 15 5577 intel audio driver