I am completely new to Linux and have been having issues trying to install Mint 14 (Nadia) 64 Bit - Matte. I am using a Lenovo Z570 with 8 gigs ram and a 750 gig hardrive. I have tried to install Mint a few times and as such likely done more harm than good at this point.
So far my install attempts have gone something like this. Booted the live version off of a bootable USB and installed Mint alongside my existing installation of Windows 7. I used the Mint program to create a new partition to put Mint on (one thing to note here is it would be nice if the wizard/program let the user know which was the existing partition and which was the new one being created - it may show this but I might have missed it?). I restarted my computer and windows booted up normally without showing a bootloader screen. It did however want to run a check disk (and it seems to after every time I tried installing and creating a partition from the live version) So i did some research and ended up installing EasyBCD and put in a new Grub2 boot record. I then restarted my computer and now had the apparent option of loading Mint. I tried and ended up getting Grub4Dos screen with minimal BASH like line editing available. At this point I rebooted into windows removed the partitions created by the Mint install and then tried again. I rebooted and then I deleted the old Linux boot record created a new one and ran into the same issue as before. I then rebooted into windows and created the partitions manually and tried doing the advanced install and eneded up with the same issue as before (though this time windows did not want to run a chedk disk).
At this point I did some research and came up with this post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... os#p656807. So I tried to mimic what was going on there and booted a live copy and figured out how to run bootinfoscript as found here:http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=64044 (which needs to be slightly updated as the syntax is no longer up to date). After running bootinfoscript I mirrored what was going on in the previously listed post and force loaded Grub2 onto Sda3 rebooted and tried again. This time when trying to boot into Linux it broot me into a different Grub screen but Mint would still not boot. So I removed the various partitions I had manually created through Windows and tried the standard install again. It still would not boot into Mint and so I tried force loading Grub2 again and recieved an error about the partition not being valid. As I mentioned before I think I have probably done more harm than good... One thing to note is that after each install I did remove the boot record with EasyBCD and created a new one.
This is the relevant info from bootinfoscript:
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Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda3
and looks at sector 1459946816 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 72 for . According to the info in the
boot sector, sda3 has 31459327 sectors, but according
to the info from fdisk, it has 31612655 sectors.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /boot/bcd
sda4: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda5
and looks at sector 1345044488 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 72 for .
Operating System: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
sda6: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Windows 7: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 206,848 1,289,998,115 1,289,791,268 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 1,433,536,512 1,465,149,167 31,612,656 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda4 1,289,998,334 1,433,536,511 143,538,178 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1,289,998,336 1,416,935,423 126,937,088 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1,416,937,472 1,433,536,511 16,599,040 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.5 GB, 15512174592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1885 cylinders, total 30297216 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2,048 30,296,063 30,294,016 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 106C70916C707378 ntfs
/dev/sda2 267A6FD07A6F9AF7 ntfs
/dev/sda3 D4CC07C6CC07A1BA ntfs LENOVO_PART
/dev/sda5 00c18a1f-bc43-458a-adf3-342fd1171dcc ext4
/dev/sda6 3e1daeed-ab2b-434f-953f-99f89db48092 swap
/dev/sdb1 927D-B3D7 vfat LINUX MINT
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 /cdrom vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone can tell me how to get wireless to work in the live version that would also be appreciated. It always says that my wireless is disabled by a hardware switch. I have flipped what i believe to be the wireless on off switch a few times and it only just turns off and on bluetooth in Mint, but it turns off and both in Windows. I also tried an external wireless card and it also said it was disabled by a hardware switch.