[SOLVED] Just installed Mint 14 but it crashed...

[hitr87]

So I am brand new to linux, a friend suggested the Mint distro so I downloaded the image and put it on a USB drive with UNetBootin.I get it to boot from the live USB with no problems and install it along side windows. I created it's partion, created a user, it says it was intalled properly then I rebooted, all is fine up to this point. On the reboot, I get a message about "one of my disks needs to be checked for consitancy" files could have errors on them and it proceeds to check the files... it found no errors but it appears the distro didn't load on the partition. It still shows the Install linux Mint icon, it does not have the user I created, and it doesn't save any files ( checked with just a simple .doc file) Here is a look at what I got, it appears it created way to many partitions but like I said I am a total noob and I am in dire need of asstistance.




mint@mint ~ $ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8a2bd119

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 204800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 411648 2044300419 1021944386 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 3854446592 3907029167 26291288 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda4 2044301310 3854446591 905072641 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 2044301312 3820965887 888332288 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3820967936 3854446591 16739328 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 3876 MB, 3876225024 bytes
107 heads, 43 sectors/track, 1645 cylinders, total 7570752 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 8064 7570751 3781344 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
mint@mint ~ $ sudo parted -l print
Model: ATA ST2000DM001-9YN1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ntfs boot
2 211MB 1047GB 1046GB primary ntfs
4 1047GB 1973GB 927GB extended
5 1047GB 1956GB 910GB logical ext4
6 1956GB 1973GB 17.1GB logical
3 1973GB 2000GB 26.9GB primary ntfs diag


Model: Memorex Travel Drive CL (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 3876MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 4129kB 3876MB 3872MB primary fat32 boot, lba


mint@mint ~ $

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[hitr87]

Fixed, just had to re-install GRUB on the right partition!