Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:52 pm
Hi. I have 64-bit Mint 9 installed inside Windows 7 with mint4win/wubi. Eariler today, Mint locked up on me. This has happened before so all I did was hold down the power button for a hard reset. That's never caused a problem before.
But today, when I tried to start Mint back, all I get after choosing it from the Windows Boot Manager menu is a Grub prompt. I don't get the Grub menu like I used to.
I've tried the sticky at the top of this forum about fixing a borked mint4win, but I don't have a "disks" subdirectory there (unless I'm in the wrong place, but wubildr.cfg seems to confirm my fears that the directory's gone).
That kind of scares me. It looks like something has deleted my Mint partition but I have no idea how it happened. It's not a big deal, I'm just curious to see if anything can be done about it. (I hope I'm wrong about the deleted partition though )
But today, when I tried to start Mint back, all I get after choosing it from the Windows Boot Manager menu is a Grub prompt. I don't get the Grub menu like I used to.
I've tried the sticky at the top of this forum about fixing a borked mint4win, but I don't have a "disks" subdirectory there (unless I'm in the wrong place, but wubildr.cfg seems to confirm my fears that the directory's gone).
That kind of scares me. It looks like something has deleted my Mint partition but I have no idea how it happened. It's not a big deal, I'm just curious to see if anything can be done about it. (I hope I'm wrong about the deleted partition though )