Fix black screen in tty mode with Ubuntu 16.04.1 on ASUS Prime Z270-K with KabyLake CPU

After installing Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS via USB in UEFI mode, I rebooted and was met by a black screen. From another machine on the local network, I was able to ssh into the newly-installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 box and noticed the following in dmesg:

[  +0.000000] Call Trace:
[  +0.000002]  [] dump_stack+0x63/0x90
[  +0.000001]  [] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
[  +0.000001]  [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80
[  +0.000014]  [] __unclaimed_reg_debug+0x80/0x90 [i915_bpo]
[  +0.000012]  [] gen9_read32+0x35e/0x390 [i915_bpo]
[  +0.000002]  [] ? __pm_runtime_resume+0x5b/0x70
[  +0.000016]  [] intel_digital_port_connected+0xf8/0x290 [i915_bpo]
[  +0.000013]  [] ? intel_display_power_get+0x3b/0x50 [i915_bpo]
[  +0.000015]  [] intel_hdmi_detect+0x4b/0x140 [i915_bpo]
[  +0.000003]  [] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes_merge_bits+0x235/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper]

Google reveals many similar issues with i915 Kernel Mode Setting for Intel integrated video on newer intel CPU's (Skylake and beyond).

At the GRUB menu after rebooting, I added the kernel boot parameter nomodeset and booted with F10 after which I was able to boot to a visible login prompt now that Linux is no longer trying to automatically set the video resolution.

To make the kernel boot parameter changes permanent in GRUB menu, I had to edit /etc/default/grub and edited the following:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"

I then ran sudo update-grub to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Some other hardware info:

$ lscpu
...
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz

$ dmidecode -t 2
...
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: PRIME Z270-K
Version: Rev X.0x


References:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu/38782#38782