Comment 2 for bug 1666063

hi ,
i have the same problem on Supermicro motherboard X10SRM-F. Bios is latest (2.0a).
Either Ubuntu 16.10 or Beta 17.10 - whether in UEFI mode or Legacy mode , both from USB key as well as from Virtual CDROM drive - after selecting on 1st screen (GRUB screen) - "Install Ubuntu Server" screen goes black and nothing happens.
Will try your workarounds (...16) but suspect something is wrong with BIOS or Ubuntu installers.

In addition I upgraded from 16.04 (which can boot/be installed) to 16.10 and it worked fine. But when i upgraded to 17.04 (beta) - i can only boot with kernel that i carried over from 16.10 (4.8 version ) and new 4.10 and even one manually installed from kernel PPA result in black screen after selecting grub entry. That is when i tried to re-install 16.10 or 17.04 and simply cannot make any progress.