I just installed Mint XFCE and chose to formate the entire disk. It said everything worked great and asked for a restart. I did and took out the cd when asked to. Upon restart it asked me to choose what to book (normal, vs recover vs 3rd option). I chose the first, some text goes by (to fast to read) and then it seems to get stuck on the next screen. Its the screen where the bar bounces back and fourth. From here it loads into a text screen and says:
"BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Build-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(intitramfs)
"
I really have no idea what to do and I'm a complete noob (just came from vista).
Gateway comp. purchased march of 2007. 2 gigs of ram, amd turion 64, xpress200 ati card.
Any ideas? BTW this is the 2nd attempt at install.
Zack
Won't Boot
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zslates
Won't Boot
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Guest
Re: Won't Boot
Also,
When booting into recover mode it just stops on:
"[ 25.494944] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.2"
When booting into recover mode it just stops on:
"[ 25.494944] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.2"
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Guest
Re: Won't Boot
Update 3.
It actually spit out more code....
"Done.
Check root = bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing moudles, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
"
then the busy box .... thing again.
It actually spit out more code....
"Done.
Check root = bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing moudles, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
"
then the busy box .... thing again.
Re: Won't Boot
It says the hard drive you used to install isn't found.
http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/HOWTOs
This might be a bad burn or a problem with the bot options line.
How many drives do you have.
http://linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/HOWTOs
This might be a bad burn or a problem with the bot options line.
How many drives do you have.
