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Everything was working fine previous day when i turn on my laptop I'm stuck on restart loop unable to boot after GNU GRUB screen. My Ubuntu did updated previous day and i selected Restart later option

When i select Advance Option for Ubuntu i get 4 options as seen in image below

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Selecting both recover mode options i get 

Loading Linux 5.3.0-42-generic ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...

then black screen then my system restart

and selecting other options i get black screen then my system restart

I have Tried this but don't work for me

Some posts suggested this solution On GRUB menu Press 'e' and changing quiet splash nomodeset Pressed Ctrl + X

still get black screen and computer restart

I have Ubuntu IOS on usb but the installing Ubuntu i don't get reinstalling Ubuntu while keeping my data

Recovered my data but fresh installation also have same problem after Update

My system: Dell inspiron i3 15 3567 Intel HD 520 integrated

Thanks in advance

Edit 1:

i tried to apply these solutions but none works for me Ubuntu 18.04.2 boot stuck on purple screen after updates

After trying to fix my problem i know my Ubuntu Break (hang to purple screen) after these updated is installed and computer is restarted as shown in image below

Ubuntu update list

I really cant do any more debugging because i need my laptop for work 

System info : 
     Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6006U CPU @ 2.00GHz
     VGA compatible controller
     product: Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]
     vendor: Intel Corporation
Numan Hassan
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  • Welcome to AskUbuntu, to salvage your data, create [system rescue](http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/)CD and cope your home directory to another media. Or use `fsarchiver` to backup the entire partition then you can try anything. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Mar 26 '20 at 01:41
  • @SadaharuWakisaka but i can't go pass the GNU GRUB screen system keep restarting – Numan Hassan Mar 26 '20 at 02:21
  • From the GRUB Additional Options menu, try and boot the -40 kernel. Does that fully boot? Report back. Start comments to me with @heynnema or I may miss them. – heynnema Mar 26 '20 at 02:49
  • System rescue CD/USB is another way to boot your computer, it's independent. Enter BIOS and select external device, but you need another computer to create it. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Mar 26 '20 at 05:36
  • @heynnema I recovered my data using USB boot and did the fresh Ubuntu installation then after update same problem this time i get purple Screen instead of black screen – Numan Hassan Mar 27 '20 at 01:42
  • @heynnema i guess i use Ubuntu with disable update, Other people have same issue like this https://askubuntu.com/questions/1144800/ubuntu-18-04-2-boot-stuck-on-purple-screen-after-updates – Numan Hassan Mar 27 '20 at 02:12
  • The key would have been to see if the prior -40 kernel still booted, as per my comment from yesterday. We would have learned a lot from that. Oh well. – heynnema Mar 27 '20 at 03:21
  • @heynnema sorry but i don't know what --40 kernel is im noob at Linux – Numan Hassan Mar 27 '20 at 03:26
  • GRUB menu, Additional Options, and you'd have seen all of the older kernels that you could have tried to boot from. Look closely at the image in your question. The -40 refers to that kernel. Had you tried it, and had it booted, then the fix for the -42 kernel might have been real easy. – heynnema Mar 27 '20 at 03:29

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I have a Dell Inspiron 17 5767 which was exhibiting the same issue(s). A clean Ubuntu 18.04.4 install works fine. But as soon as I updated packages, when this jumped to kernel 5.3.0.28-generic, my laptop stopped booting, and froze at "loading initial ramdisk". Using dis_ucode_ldr did not help. Updating the Dell BIOS did not help. When adding debug options to the kernel command line, nothing was displayed.

This link solved the problem for me: Ubuntu 20.04 black screen after installing, no booting "The problem is with UEFI. To fix it you can turn off PPT in the UEFI/BIOS options and enable Legacy Boot."

When I disabled PPT and enabled Legacy Boot, my Dell laptop recovered and can now boot successfully. Hopefully this might help.

Michael Becker
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