New User from Surrey

[steveking]

Hi everyone, I'm a new user to Linux Mint. Never tried it before but am currently testing the new 'Maya' so expect my personnal thoughts! I am relatively new to the Linux World.

[xenopeek]

Hi steveking, welcome to the Linux Mint forums Thanks for joining the forums! I hope you will enjoy using Linux Mint, and please share on the forums if we can help with getting something solved or clarified for you

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[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the mint family forums


wizard
[a kentish man in exile]

[steveking]

Many Thanks to the warm welcomes.

Unfortunately since installing Maya grub seems to have failed. It is the second time this has happened to me. The first was with Ubuntu 11.04 and my fix was to reinstall so the grub that failed would be over written. But this wont seem to work this time round?

I have no idea what has gone wrong, I can only guess that grub installed on the MBR and then failed? any opinions or links to relevant posts would be appreciated!

It is a new SATA drive with (shudder) Windows installed on it, I tried to install another OS on my spare HDD but it desided to ignore me and write on the windows HDD. Then grub failed.

[xenopeek]

I'll respond here, as I didn't see a separate topic from you on this. Can you share what the symptoms are? "grub seems to have failed" is a bit open to interpretation, and could be anything from black screen during boot (i.e., grub video resolution not supported by monitor) to grub having been installed in the wrong partition You can easily reinstall grub from the installation DVD/USB, using Boot Repair: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot- ... _in_Ubuntu

[steveking]

Sorry I was abit vague there! it says that there was no harware detected. Then takes me to then grub rescue menu. I may have found a fix for this an will test later on tonight. My fix should be simple - remove windows and use just Linux Mint on my PC. I think there may be clashes with windows 8 boot loader and the grub2 boot loader so I will try it and see what happens.

ps. very speedy replies! On the ubuntu forums I useual have to wait a few days for replies

[steveking]

Ok fixed my problem by completely removing Windows. The only problem is the additional drivers wont install to my system, leaving me with 2nd rate graphical capabilities and no sound what so ever. This has popped up in the forum afew times I believe mainly with AMD Radeon cards using 64 bit and possibly 32 bit systems.

Is there anyone who can look into this?

I downloaded the AMD Linux driver from their website but tbh I have no idea what to do with it. It is a .run file and opens automatically with geddit. If any one knows please let me kow and then finally I can have sound to go along with my extremely minty desktop.

Many Thanks for all the help that I have found so far

[xenopeek]

Right-click the .run file > Properties > Permissions, and checkmark "Allow executing file as program". Then try again, though I would advise to start it from a terminal instead, so you can see any errors that are output to the console. To do so, use the file browser to go to the directory where you have the .run file, and then from file browser's File menu select "Open in Terminal". Then type ./ followed by the full name of the .run file (and you can press the Tab key, which will automatically complete the name as you type it if it can). So if you file is called "myamdthingy.run", you would type the following and press enter to start it:

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./myamdthingy.run

If you get errors or are unsure as how to proceed, please post a new topic in the Graphics Cards & Monitors section of the forum: viewforum.php?f=59. The guru's there can hopefully help you get a driver installed. Though perhaps check now if you are running Cinnamon; not all drivers will work with Cinnamon, so in that case better check (else you get a fallback mode, so you still boot into a graphical environment, but much less nice than Cinnamon).

[steveking]

Its all ok now i managed to get it working fine! Graphics and sound are both very good!