Hi. I have 64-bit Mint 9 installed inside Windows 7 with mint4win/wubi. Eariler today, Mint locked up on me. This has happened before so all I did was hold down the power button for a hard reset. That's never caused a problem before.
But today, when I tried to start Mint back, all I get after choosing it from the Windows Boot Manager menu is a Grub prompt. I don't get the Grub menu like I used to.
I've tried the sticky at the top of this forum about fixing a borked mint4win, but I don't have a "disks" subdirectory there (unless I'm in the wrong place, but wubildr.cfg seems to confirm my fears that the directory's gone).
That kind of scares me. It looks like something has deleted my Mint partition but I have no idea how it happened. It's not a big deal, I'm just curious to see if anything can be done about it. (I hope I'm wrong about the deleted partition though )
Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
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Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
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Re: Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
If mint4win is still inside windows it should be recoveryable..
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Re: Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
Thanks for the reply. Those directions are similar to others I have read, but they have not worked. I get stuck at the step where you change to the "disks" directory.
After following (and changing a bit because of my folder name) the instructions in this thread I get this:
Unfortunately, I don't have the "disks" subdirectory so it's looking like I'm not going to be able to get it back. All I have are the "winboot" and "install" directories.
I wonder how that happened?
After following (and changing a bit because of my folder name) the instructions in this thread I get this:
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sudo mount -o loop /win/linuxmint/disks/root.disk /vdisk
/win/linuxmint/disks/root.disk: No such file or directory
I wonder how that happened?
Re: Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
A wrong path. Try this way:spearman wrote:Code: Select all
sudo mount -o loop /win/linuxmint/disks/root.disk /vdisk /win/linuxmint/disks/root.disk: No such file or directory
mint@mint:~$ sudo mkdir /windows
mint@mint:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /windows
mint@mint:~$ sudo mkdir /wubi
mint@mint:~$ sudo mount -o loop /windows/mint/disks/root.disk /wubi
mint@mint:~$ sudo chroot /wubi
root@mint:/# ls
...now you should be able to do something (copy, repair, ...)
root@mint:/#exit or Ctrl d
mint@mint:~$ sudo umount /wubi
mint@mint:~$ sudo umount /windows
mint@mint:~$
Re: Mint won't boot after hard freeze; just Grub prompt
Still no luck unfortunately.
I get this when /dev/sda1 is mounted as /windows
My main Windows partition is /dev/sda3 but that doesn't work either.
I get this when /dev/sda1 is mounted as /windows
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sudo mount -o loop /windows/mint/disks/root.disk /wubi
/windows/mint/disks/root.disk: No such file or directory