Dual boot Ubuntu 16.04

[Erisa]

I have a Maximus VIII Gene with Windows 10 installed. I created a bootable USB flash drive with the recent released Ubuntu 16.04 distribution. It showed up on my list of bootable devices and when I booted it I reached the Grub boot menu. When I selected "Try Ubuntu" it displayed the colored Ubuntu background and then several flickering alert windows, with no way to proceed. Do I need to make any BIOS changes? I tried to disable secure boot, but the option was set as enabled in grayed out fashion, making it impossible to disable. Any ideas?

[sk2play]

What are your system specs such as
SSD/HDD available free space?
GPU?
32 or 64 installation on both Win10 and Ubuntu?
Do you have more than one optical\USB drive with media in it during this process?

[sk2play]

duplicated post with the one I replied to above, delete mods -- TIA

[cekim]

sk2play, there is an option to delete your post - edit the post, then select "Go Advanced". Look towards the top, there will be an option to delete.

Erisa, your GPU specs would be helpful here. Personally, I've had a fair amount of trouble with "nouveau" (the opensource nvidia driver) and 980, particularly SLI, but frankly even a single GTX980 or ti will hang on me trying to install CentOS.

Again, it would only matter with an nvidia gpu and I haven't tried Ubuntu on this system, but at the grub level when it first comes up, you have the option of editing the command line (even for the install boot).

I add (to the linux kernel boot near other rhgb quiet rd.xxxx type arguments on the linuxefi line):
rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset

In CentOS/RHEL, the installer lets you hit "e" (I think) on the first screen you see to edit this line prior to booting the cd/usb. Tap the up-arrow when that first screen comes up (to stop the count-down to auto-installing) and read it carefully.

p.s. to play nice with win10 - I've had to make sure I boot the EFI version of the USB/CD. There are often 2 in the boot menu one with UEFI in the name, the other without. At least in CentOS, this changes what happens down the line.

[sk2play]

Thanks cekim, much appreciate. REP + (on the comment re: deleting a duplicate post). It obviously worked. Kudos!