Comment 20 for bug 1738105

Attempted with mainline generic kernel at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.15-rc3

The issue persists. I can boot into the 4.15-rc3 kernel in recovery mode fine. In that case it comes up with the built in intel 800x640 resolution, not the nvidia graphics.

I've attached a zip folder of screenshots i took with my phone showing the boot log errors in non-recovery mode.
graphics.txt is the output from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicsTroubleshootingProcedure
using the 17.10 stable image.

A few other notes:
When I first installed I chose "other configuration" and created a partition for ubuntu (140 Gb) and a 32Gb swap partition. Early on in troubleshooting I saw it hanging on mounting the swap so I used grub 2 superdisk live usb to delete the swap partition and in recovery mode removed the swap line from /etc/fstab

cat (hd0,gpt5)/etc/fstab

UUID=1b38 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
was on /dev/nvme0n1p5 during installation

UUID=a22E /boot/efi. vfat umask=0077 0 1
# swap was on /dev/nvme0n1p6 during install
#UUID=ed1d219b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0

I commented out the /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 line