Dual Boot Mint & Win7 menu.lst Issue

[Cubby]

Hi Froggy,

How are you editing the menu.lst?

for me I would use terminal command

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gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Concerning the blinking cursor means you have no x session. Looks like you'll need to post a copy of your dmesg and xorg.o.log. What graphics do you use? On board or a card?
At blinking cursor can you get to console by entering Ctrl+Alt+F1 or maybe try Ctrl+Alt+F7? And if you can get to console and enter login name and password, does x session start by typing in " startx". When did the blinking cursor occur?

[Cubby]

Hi Froggy,

I'm a newbie, too, but I do have some recent experiences with some of the terminal commands that give specific outputs as I've been doing a bit of debugging-and learning along the way.

Let's see, I don't know if this forum can minimize a dmesg output, but if you do post the output of dmesg (go to terminal and type "dmesg), it's always nice to use code. And, output of xorg log:

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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and

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lspci -vv

As for the boot option. what does your fstab file look like:

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cat /etc/fstab

do this command as normal user, not as root or superuser.

Maybe this will give more information so that others can help, too.
Regards, Cubby

[Cubby]

Hi Froggy,

You also should read the following link, using GParted live disk to first set up your partition, and then try installing Mint. Sometimes it makes for a better install of a distro when you prepare your partition first using this utility. I am not familiar with Windows Seven, especially if it you have bought a computer/laptop with it already installed. It's one reason I use nLite version of XP Pro.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=32769