This initially shows has being unable to access /var, /usr or /bin. Checking "cat /proc/mounts" shows the root mount / has been set to read only "ro". Sometimes I get a kernel panic. Powering down and checking with a recovery disk, using fsck shows that the "recovery journal contains a file with errors... "
I've check and double checked and done the following;
- Down loaded the Mint14 Mate 64bit version direct from the Linux-Mint website, checking the MD5Sum hash on download and following burning to a DVD.
The system is (and has been for ages) a dual boot to Win7, so the first 3 Fat and NTFS partitions remain untouched.
With gpared, deleted and realigned the 4 extended partion. Reestablished the virtual partitions sda5, sda6 for / (35GB) (one for mint and one for ubuntu) and 1000 GB for /home and 8GB for swap. All have about 1MB free space between.
Created ext4 fs and surface checked for bad blocks with the fsck -cc option.
And have tried installing Mint14Mate 64Bit in sda6 and sda5 with same results.
Any guidance much appreciated!. Thanks.
Dtohjam, Perth Aust.