Once we get that info, we can use the live CD to mount your Mint partition, and have a look at some system files to see where the problem is.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
This will mount your Mint root partition. You can access the system files by going to /mnt in the live CD file system. Then post a copy of /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst from /dev/sda2.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
I can't figure out why it can't find your root partition. When the grub menu comes up, hit "e" to edit. Then select the kernel line(second line down) and hit "e" again. Then at the end of the line add this:
Everything looks fine. It must be something to do with your sata drive, and the drivers being loaded. I saw a similar thread on the Ubuntu forums, and it was completely random. Sometimes it would boot, sometimes it wouldn't no matter what was tried. I'm at a loss. One last thing to look at is /dev/disk/by-uuid and make sure the UUID numbers there match up with what is in fstab.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
I have been following this discussion as I have a case of UUID incompatibilities which shows up with differences between the results shown by blkid and fstab. The incompatibility is not causing me any problems but which is the correct result.??