Comment 50 for bug 1371651

I've experienced the "no GUI after installing lubuntu" problem.

Here are the details relevant to my case:-

Here are the technical details:-
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 630M Sep 28 17:10 lubuntu-14.10-beta2-alternate-i386.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 444 Sep 28 17:07 MD5SUMS_lubuntu
ian@rutherford:~/isos$ md5sum lubuntu-14.10-beta2-alternate-i386.iso
62da9daeaa314fa22b6fbced57568827 lubuntu-14.10-beta2-alternate-i386.iso

It installed OK with no problems. However, when booted up, apart from the BIOS screen, nothing is displayed. This PC originally had a working lubuntu 14.04LTS running on it perfectly.

Hardware used:-
Dell Optiplex GX50
1.3GHz Celeron
512MB RAM
20GB Hard disc
CD-ROM drive

Grub2 does run. I've switched it on and pressed the left shift button to get to the Grub2 screen and played around with that to no a