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ksteezy: please provide some more information. What do you mean by: "can't access my computer at all"? Blank screen, no cursor, nothing?

If you hit escape at the grub prompt (the short count down at the start of the boot) you should get a menu that will let you boot back into Windows.

As for your Linux problem, why can't you get into Linux, specifically?

Yes I was just trying to imagine what "can't get into it", looked like?

Lolo Uila: how's the weather there right now?

ksteezy,

Linux log-ins are case sensitive. Make sure you are using the proper case when logging in. Usernames are all lower-case, and passwords can be anything.


newW2,

The weather has been very sunny and hot lately. I rained today, though, which was kind of nice. Rainy season doesn't really start for another month or 2 (late october).


Aloha, Tim

Take a look at NiksaVel's post here. I think you may be onto something with the login info being different than what you thought it should be ... one key away or case difference.
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... ecd&t=1555

So you are at the login splash that is asking for your login information and you press Ctrl+Alt+F1 at the same time and you don't see a text based screen with the last two line of a text indicating a username (I'll assume it is ksteezy for you) - looks like this:

Linux Mint Cassandra ksteezy-desktop tty

ksteezy-desktop login:

so in tty you can type in your user name and then enter and you get the prompt for password, but you can't type anything in for password (all you will see are asterisks)? Or you can enter the password and then enter but .... ? then what?

Hi, have you tried typing the password anyway and hitting enter? I think that the asterisks not showing is normal - I don't remember them showing when I login...

newW2 wrote:(all you will see are asterisks)?

Nope, he won't.

ksteezy wrote:then the password thing will show up, and its just blank and nothing I type shows up.

Of course not. Passwords are never echoed back. Never. Ever. Just type your password and hit the Enter key.

Ha ha! I'm not a total amnesiac then.

Sorensei wrote: I'm not a total amnesiac then.

Nope, absolutely not. Your previous statement that it is normal for the console password dialogue to remain completely black when something is typed is absolutely correct.

Thanks for the correction Scorp and Sorensei. I don't know where I got the asterisks I must have been thinking of something else.

Ksteezy: I looked back at what the initial post was, and I have to wonder. What is happening at the normal mint login when you boot? You type in the user name and hit enter .... and then .... ?

When using a text log-in you will not see anything when you type the password. That's normal. Just type the password and hit enter. It will look like you are not typing anything, but will work.

It's only from the GUI log-in you see the place filler characters.

Hey, here comes a Linux nerd to the rescue. I'll provide you with a sure-fire step-by-step way of getting your brick operational again.

But, it involves the command line.

Grab your Mint Linux CD and put it in your drive. Boot from it. Log into it.

Now, do you know where you installed Mint? In Konqueror, under Storage Media, you should be able to find it. double-click the drive you installed Mint onto.

Now, press F4.

In the Konsole window that opens up, copy and paste this into it, line by line (in Konsole, Shift+Insert is paste): Type a root password. You will not see anything on the screen as you type. This is normal, for security reasons.

Now, after that, keep typing exit until the Konsole window closes, and reboot into your installed Mint Linux. DON'T boot off of the CD.

Login as root, and immediately create a new user and log out as fast as possible. You don't want to use root for very long...

After you make your new user, open a Konsole window and type to re-scramble the root password.[/code]