Welcome to Mint Ek0nomik
This is certainly a problem with X and you have a slightly odd ATI card - I think thats the problem
You might try the hints in the troubleshooter for the live CD
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... ur_Live_CD
There's also one other step to take I htink you should try but I'll have to come back to you when I find the reference to it again
Black Screen on Celena Install
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I also get this black screen when trying to install Celena and Cassandra on a spare PC/Server. I have read the FAQ and nothing works. My video card is a dated Asus FX5200. I have booting issues with several distros, including Ubuntu and FC >4. Mandriva seems OK though.
When I use break=top I get an almost immediate freeze
When I use break=bottom, I can change xorg from vesa to nv but instead of X starting, all I get is the black screen. ctrl-alt-F1 etc does not work. Neither does ctrl-alt-backspace.
When I use break=button, I can boot to a blank screen and ctrl-alt-F1 to console. However as I am in the process of editing xorg.conf, the PC just freezes. Reset button needed.
When I use break=top I get an almost immediate freeze
When I use break=bottom, I can change xorg from vesa to nv but instead of X starting, all I get is the black screen. ctrl-alt-F1 etc does not work. Neither does ctrl-alt-backspace.
When I use break=button, I can boot to a blank screen and ctrl-alt-F1 to console. However as I am in the process of editing xorg.conf, the PC just freezes. Reset button needed.
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Husse
Well Mint is 100% based on Ubuntu, but over time more and more changes have been made. Mostly things have been added, but also removed and changed so by now there is a considerable difference, but as I am not a developer I could not give you a percentage 
Most (but not quite all) solutions for Feisty work in Mint 3.x
No we don't have a text based installer - it would take to much resources to develop (it's not just to put the live cd in a "cruncher" and wait for the result)
The solution I mentioned but did not give is in this link
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4784
Try break=bottom or =top or =button till you get a command prompt - it's obviously varying which one will do that depending on your system
Most (but not quite all) solutions for Feisty work in Mint 3.x
No we don't have a text based installer - it would take to much resources to develop (it's not just to put the live cd in a "cruncher" and wait for the result
)Ek0nomik, does this mean that you've installed?Until that post came, I was stuck.
The solution I mentioned but did not give is in this link
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4784
Try break=bottom or =top or =button till you get a command prompt - it's obviously varying which one will do that depending on your system