Elementary OS – Black Screen and Blank Desktop error

This is personal note regarding installing ElementaryOS from USB which lead to Black Screen during installation which later after installation booted into a Blank desktop enviroment without any icons or taskbar.

1. Create USB Linux install using YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator - [LINK]
2. Boot up via USB
3. At Elementary OS menu, select TAB to edit the command line. remove "quiet" and replace with "nomodeset"
4. Proceed with normal installation
5. After installation, boot into Elementary OS and press CTRL+ALT+F1
6. Login using the credential created during installation

   # cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak
   # nano /etc/default/grub

7. Add “nomodeset” to GRUBCMDLINELINUX_DEFAULT so it looks like this:

   GRUBDEFAULT=0
   GRUBHIDDENTIMEOUT=0
   GRUBHIDDENTIMEOUTQUIET=true
   GRUBTIMEOUT=5
   GRUBDISTRIBUTOR=lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian
   GRUBCMDLINELINUXDEFAULT=“quiet splash nomodeset”
   GRUBCMDLINE_LINUX=”“

8. Save by hitting Ctrl-O, then exit nano with Ctrl-X.
9. # sudo update-grub
10. reboot into the Elementary OS