New Install Advice (update included)

[gold_finger]

Good job getting it up and running!

For the benefit of others who may be in similar situation with Nvida card, what exactly did you do when editing /etc/default/grub?  Did you just add "nomodeset" to it or something?

Nevermind.  Just saw your solution on your other post:

*  Open a terminal and type following to open /etc/default/grub file with text editor as root.
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gksu leafpad /etc/default/grub

*  Look for this line:
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

*  Change it to this:
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modeset=0"

*  Save file, then close text editor

*  Still in the terminal, enter the following:
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sudo update-grub

For some reason, I thought that line was only for Intel-based cards -- but what do I know?  If it worked for your Nvidia card, that's all that counts.  Good job.

My only remaining issue is that it boots up without displaying the grub screen choices.  I tried a suggested "no menu" fix but that did not work.

Not 100% sure what you mean here.  Will have a look at your new post for details.