Have been using Kubuntu 16.04 on new Lenovo H30 AMD A8 7.2G ram.

Downloaded Neon user and used Rosa to write to usb. Installed Neon using complete hdd so that I had a clean system = sda1 EFI, sda2 ext4, sda3 swap.

Rebooted but went straight to grub console. Googled advice, followed it and eventually booted from grub - straight to initramfs. This is a whole new learning curve so I ducked out. Rebooted with Kub 16.04 usb, installed it exactly the same way and got back to a working system.

I'd like to use Neon so I can select programs rather than having to accept a total package but confusion reigns. If Kubuntu and Neon are both based on Ubuntu how is it one installs without problem where the other fails at the start? Has anyone come up against, and possibly solved, this?

Thanks

yes, I've got similar issue. I don't know exactly why, but grub2 installs some files as 'ubuntu' and some as 'neon' which of course breaks boot.

Here I described how to "fix' it:
viewtopic.php?f=309&t=134976&p=361816#p361816