Mint fails to run after installation

[David Hunter]

Please boot to the live cd, go into the terminal (click Menu, then Terminal) and then type

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inxi -p

and press enter. Then, copy the output to here so that we can see how you've arranged your drives. Also in terminal, type

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sudo gparted

and press enter. In the top right corner of the screen there'll be a device selection menu. The menu should show one option for each drive you have connected. It should read something like (if you have only two drives):

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/dev/sda   320 GiB
/dev/sdb   160 GiB

or it may say the opposite:

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/dev/sda   160 GiB
/dev/sdb   320 GiB

If that's the case, you've installed Mint on your second drive, which I believe GRUB cannot boot to (experts please correct me if I'm wrong). Either way, please take a screen shot of the menu and post it here so we can see it.

'GRUB' is the menu that loads at boot and lets you select which operating system to load.

Good luck!

[David Hunter]

Hi Orval.

*IF* I am correct about the issue of not being able to boot onto a second drive, then it's a simple fix: open your computer, and swap jumpers on each drive so you're 320gigga is the master and the 160gig is the slave. Then ensure the BIOS realizes that change, and then reinstall.

Failing that, my last suggestion would be to rip out the 160 gig drive entirely, then install mint on the 320, and after installation reinsert the 160gig (but you'll still have to ensure that the 320 is the master drive and not the slave).

If you have no idea what I'm talking about with regards to hard drive jumpers, see http://www.buildeasypc.com/hw/howto/insthdd.htm for some guidance.

If neither of the above don't work, apologies.

Of course, it's more than possible that GRUB can boot to a second hard drive... in which case, this has been a wild goose chase!