Linux Mint No Longer Boots

[Clyde Machine]

Okay, so I've got an.... interesting issue.

Went to try openSUSE and decided to install it on my system, which is already running Windows XP and Linux Mint 9 Isadora. I've triple-booted this computer before with no problems, but I had problems installing openSUSE that seem to have now ruined my Linux Mint partition.

When I go to log in to Linux Mint, the splash screen loads with the colour-changing dots, but when I hit the left/right arrow keys to see what's going on the screen overflows with errors. I'll go back and get details of what it says, but if anyone can help me with where to go from here to fix my Mint partition short of reformatting and reinstalling please do!

Thanks,
- Clyde

[framp]

We need some more details
Pls post the result of

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fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | egrep "Disk /|/dev/" | sed "s#^/dev/#Part /dev/#" | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/://' | xargs -n1 -IX sudo sh -c "hexdump -v -s 0x80 -n 2 -e '2/1 \"%x\" \"\\n\"' X | xargs -n1 -IY sh -c \"case \"Y\" in '48b4') echo X: GRUB 2 v1.96 ;; 'aa75' | '5272') echo X: GRUB Legacy ;; '7c3c') echo X: GRUB 2 v1.97 or higher ;; *) echo X: No GRUB Y ;; esac\""

which will tell us on which partitions there is a grub installed and

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fdisk -l

which displays your disk layout with it's partitions. You also should tells us which OS you have installed on which partition.

[Clyde Machine]

Alrighty, output of both commands:

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/dev/sda: GRUB 2 v1.97 or higher
/dev/sda1: No GRUB 8cd
/dev/sda2: No GRUB 00
/dev/sda3: No GRUB 00
/dev/sda5: No GRUB 00
/dev/sda6: No GRUB 00
/dev/sdb: No GRUB 00
/dev/sdb1: No GRUB 8cd

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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x282d282d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4570    36700492    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4571        9728    41431635    5  Extended
/dev/sda3            9729        9729        8032+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5            4571        7571    24105501   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7572        9728    17326071   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398933504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00015934

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1      243201  1953512001    7  HPFS/NTFS

Other details:
/dev/sda1 is Windows XP Pro.
/dev/sda2 is an extended partition.
/dev/sda3 is 8MB of swap space.
/dev/sda5 is Linux Mint 9 GNOME.
/dev/sda6 is now openSUSE.

/dev/sdb1 is my external harddrive, only for storage.

Before discovering my Mint crashing, I opted to not install a new bootloader during openSUSE's install process, and since I haven't been able to get into Mint at all to update the GRUB2, I can't boot into openSUSE yet. Don't know if that's worth mentioning, but there you go.

I hope that's all the info you guys need. I attempted Mint's Recovery Mode and still couldn't get past a giant deluge of errors.

EDIT: Error information:

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Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-misc.c: 216: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion '! "invalid format specifier"' failed!
INIT: ld "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: ld "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: ld "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: ld "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: ld "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: ld "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Waiting for a minute or two makes it cycle the same errors. And yes, they fill up the screen.