Help with Linux Mint

Marvzl1357 · May 28, 2014

Hullo,

I've tried installing linux mint 16 onto my old laptop to dual boot with windows 7. Obviously, I set it to "install alongside windows 7"

I created a new partition through Mint to install Mint on, and set the partition position to be "at the end" (don't know if that's any significance), and the mount point to be /.

Now that it's "installed" it isn't letting me boot into windows OR Mint, it just sits there with the blinking console underscore thing and makes sounds when I type anything.

So...I went back to the Mint install usb drive to check what it's done to my drives. It's showing that my previous partition is now a "Linux Mint 16 Petra (16)" system, and so is the supposed Mint partition...

Anyone know what might have happened and/or how I can fix it?

Help appreciated.

joshuamurphy · May 28, 2014

This sounds VERY weird. Sometimes with my Ubuntu install (which ment is based on) will boot up to a weird terminal. Have you tried the startx command? This should start the display server and let you start up applications or packages in Mint.

Edit: Also when I stuffed up in Ubuntu I would just reinstall the whole OS. Even small things like not knowing to uninstall stuff.

Edited May 28, 2014 by joshuamurphy

Marvzl1357 · May 28, 2014

So...coming back with the bootable usb, I went to the disk management/viewers and found that mint has quite kindly (sarcasm) installed mint onto the main partition and is showing that I have 379 of 410 GB free...

SO...I assume that means it has kindly deleted my windows 7 files for me?

Edit: Hmmm...I suppose I should have put this in the troubleshooting topic shouldn't I