Not sure where to post this, so if I should move it somewhere else, please let me know.I recently got a new laptop, Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 64 bit CPU.I stripped out the Dell stuff by reformatting the drive and installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 I had available. Windows works fine on the 1TB hybrid drive that came with the laptop (typing this on the Windows side now). I also installed a second drive in the M.2 slot, a 275GB SSD.The next step in the plan was to install Linux on the extra drive as a dual boot as I do plenty of work in Linux as well. I used Rufus to make a USB boot drive about a week or so ago. Ubuntu 16.04 if it helps.I used the boot drive today and everything loaded fine, but I was having some trouble getting the partitions to work correctly and install Linux, so I rebooted the computer. Now, whenever I try to load from the USB stick it hangs on the Ubuntu splash screen. It does this even after redownloading the ISO of 16.04, and 14.04 Trusty distributions using Rufus on the USB boot drive.I hit esc to look at the boot loader, and it appears to get stuck in a cycle of soft-lockup CPU#1 lockup for 22s!  Just prior to that, it says it has an error and it can't access a memory region. I infer that it was trying to load the OS into Ram, and it hit a block of memory it couldn't access and hung. I have slight Linux knowledge, but since I can't actually get into Ubuntu to run any commands I don't know what to do at this point. I need Linux and at this point I'm down to using a Mint VM, which seems ridiculous given that I should be able to dual boot.Thanks!
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