Mint never gets passed loading screen

[MagnusB]

Use Ctrl+Alt+F1-F7 to get verbose boot, and see where it hangs.

[MagnusB]

I left it running for a while on terminal mode while it was tyring to boot and it eventually said:

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Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sda4 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

But then in the shell, I can cd to /dev and sda4 does exist. Unless I'm reading that error wrong.

In the shell, it looks like the whole filesystem of Mint is intact - I can see all the same folders I usually can when I boot with the livecd.

/dev contains many folders, doesn't mean /dev/sda4 works properly. Try running a fsck of sda4, and make sure that sda4 is your root file system

[-al-]

I had this same problem on my laptop when installing elyssa, the only way i could get it to boot was to format the drive as Ext2 rather than Ext3.

Alan