[ale] Ubuntu driving me crazy (14.04)

[misrerenobis at aol.com (John Caruso)]

I have installed it 6 or 7 times and never was grub installed. I finally installed boot-repair and it allowed grub to install. It refused to install on any partition I picked

However when grub comes up it has Ubuntu at the top and if that is selected the screen goes black and nothing happens. I took the option list to boot the linux kernel 3.0***** and that seemed to work until I tried Firefox today after having it work and the screen filled with gibberish. 
Is there a better browser for Linux?

My file system is:

/dev/sda
/dev/sda    ntfs  320071 Mb   unknown
/dev/sdb
/def/sdb1 ntfs Win 7 loader
/dev/sdb2 ntfs Win7 loader
free 340791 mb

In the normal install I could not load the bootloader to /dev/sda but boot-repair allowed that. At one point I was told that I had an invalid copy of Ubuntu. 

I would really prefer to use Ubuntu but it is becoming like driving spikes under my fingernails. 

Sorry if this is to long.
John Caruso
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