I just purchased the same laptop, with an almost identical configuration (only more RAM and larger hard disk). After trying many times to boot both Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04, but always ending up with a frozen screen (even in the "try Ubuntu" mode), I solved the issue using these steps:
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Dear Stuart,
Thank you for sharing these pointers. I just purchased a Cosmos with specs very similar to yours, and am also struggling to install Ubuntu. I was wondering how you finally managed to install Ubuntu 16.04. I have tried installing both the Desktop and the Server version. With the...
