USB Installation of Ubuntu 18.04 No Longer Working

Support & Help Requests
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I have 18.04 installed on a USB drive and, now, when I try to boot from it, I get a purple blank screen followed by a black one. Nothing else happens however long I wait. Nothing material has changed on my machine other than having installed the latest kernel updates the last time I ran the OS. My PC is using an AMD RX560 card with proprietary drivers.

I do get the Grub menu from which I can make a number of selections, including Ubuntu (start normally), Advanced options, Ubuntu with Linux (latest 3 kernels and recovery modes), Memory test, and boot into Windows 10; however, nothing works.

I’ve tried recovery modes for the latest two kernels and nothing happens. I read on the web that - when using AMD proprietary drivers - your system can get problematic after an Ubuntu update, but I haven’t seen that before. And, I don’t have the menu option to use generic AMD drivers.

Can anyone help me with this? I’d rather not go through the process of reformatting the USB drive for use, since I have a lot of customizations in it.

Thanks!

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check you bios … using uefi or old boot loader

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Thanks for the quick reply. I’ve been using this USB stick on this PC for years (it’s an old legacy BIOS system.). That’s not the problem. As I said, it was working just fine until an Ubuntu update and now it’s not working.