Dual boot, Mint wont load to desktop help!

[ghostgrrl]

I am having the exact same issues -- I too have an Acer (Aspire 5610Z).

Sorry, I inadvertently cross-posted to the Installation & Boot forum, hoping for help. My bad.


Okay, this is what was happening yesterday:
<<<Sometimes I receive the blank screen, with mouse pointer only. Today I've been getting a GRUB Error 21 (I read somewhere that means "cannot find disk"--?). Tried several approaches with no success. Only thing I can do right now is run from the LiveCD.>>>


I then came across a post on another webpage that said you had to burn the iso at slow speed, as it was compressed onto the CD and might not work the first few times you try to install. I decided to write to a 4GB USB instead, and this time the install worked fine. However, I'm experiencing a few issues:

1. Cannot cancel any downloads - they sit in the lower right hand corner of Firefox, occasionally indicating there isn't enough space to download

2. Somehow ended up with not nearly enough room on my /home partition -- I followed advice to partition as:

• /dev/sda1 swap 2GB
  dev/sda2 ext3 mount point / 10GB
  dev/sda3 ext3 /home all the rest (total 160GB hard drive)

However, when I check /home I only have 22MB!

Will try changing partitions with gparted, but I'm a total noob in Linux, so I may just have to reinstall (again.... ).

Suggestions?

If anyone finds a solution, please post it here!

Thanks,
Karen

[tubguy]

I had the same problem after installing with XP in the "side by side" way...twice. On the third attempt I chose the manual
partition set up and put Mint 7 there and it works perfectly. Hope this helps