Need Linux Mint 9 Help

[scottd44]

I am new to Linux and got the download done and put it on a disc well i intalled it and all restarted it but when i go to login the box comes up with my login name and when i click to put my password in it goes to the welcome screen and freezes up.Then i have to restart what am i doing wrong.

im also doing a duel boot setup as well.

thank you again

[scottd44]

wow am i not going to get any help with this issue??

[kansasnoob]

I currently can't try this myself because I had a hard drive fail and I still need to reinstall Mint 9 but I'm hoping that Mint's recovery mode acts the same as Ubuntu's. It can't hurt for you to try this. If Mint is the only OS on your machine you'll need to press the Shift key just after the System/BIOS screen passes on reboot to display the grub menu.

Once there use the arrow keys to select recovery mode. It's also possible since this is a fresh install that no recovery mode is listed, if this is the case please read:

How to Boot to the Recovery Mode w/o a Menu Option

1. If you have Grub 2 set to boot without displaying the menu at all, hold the SHIFT key down until the menu displays. (In Grub it was the ESC key.)
2. Press any key once the menu is displayed to 'freeze' it. Then arrow to the kernel you want to boot.
3. Press "e"
4. Scroll to the end of the "linux /boot/vmlinuz...." line. If displayed, remove "quiet" and/or "splash". Add the word "single" to the end of the line.
5. Press CTRL-X to boot to the Recovery menu.

Credit for that goes here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Once recovery mode completes you should see several options:

resume
clean
dpkg
failsafeX
grub
netroot
root

In your case I'd select "failsafeX" and see what happens.

Note: you may have a "text based" login, not too sure. I'm "guessing" that Mint 9's recovery mode acts just like Ubuntu's but I could be wrong.

Whether or not that works it sounds like it may be a graphics issue so we'll need to see the output of:

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lspci | grep VGA

I'm assuming you can at least run the Live CD, eh?

It could be several hours before I get back to this

While I'm busy I'll start a fresh install of Mint 9 so I can check out it's recovery mode options.

[kansasnoob]

I did get Mint 9 installed and checked the behavior of recovery mode and it is just as described. Hopefully we can figure something out