I installed LMDE along with Debian Squeeze (with MATE only). In the latter I had some problems with the display manager (http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=125) that I believe caused the problem. From what I remember, after I installed LigthDM I booted in Debian without problem but when I tried to boot into LMDE I ended up with a frozen welcome screen (no mouse, and no reponse for alt+f1). Searching on the internet I found and tried various solutions, like updating grub, reinstalling grub. After reboot a strange thing happened, the menu showed a simmilar entry for both distros; something like
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LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (recovery mode)
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (recovery mode)
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (on /dev/sda6) #This is where Debian is installed
LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda6)
Next I tried to solve this with an old version of Rescatux, and that's when I started to really mess up my system Depending on which system I choosed as the main one (as explained in the help menu of Rescatux) the grub menu above was reversed, i.e. Debian booted correctly and the LMDE appeared as:
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Debian wheezy, with Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (on /dev/sda5)
After this I tried to go back to the previous situation booting the live-cd of LMDE and installing grub on /dev/sda but nothing happend, well, nothing good because other problems appeared (the sector 32 FlexNet issue and a error in cylinder boundary). In the past few hours, luckly I made some progress. I booted the Mint 12 live-cd, and restored grub with boot-rescue as explained in http://ubuntuisit.blogspot.com/2011/06/ ... buntu.html
Now I'm back to my first problem. I have similar entries for both distros. Interesting when I type update-grub I get
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Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-amd64
Found Debian GNU/Linux (wheezy/sid) on /dev/sda6
done
Any suggestion?
Regards
Saúl
P.S. First, Sorry for such a long-winded post. Second, information about my system is in the output from boot-rescue http://paste.ubuntu.com/918176/