linux mint crash
Raymond House
raymondh40 at gmail.com
Sat May 30 14:27:42 UTC 2015
I'm just trying to reinstall Mint 17.1.But when you get to the partition
window and select "something else" I know that mint is in sda4 ext4 so I
click on it and on "continue" and I get " no root file system is defined"
so what do I do with that? That's my question.
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I tried that and it went into a long list, did not equest password, and
> rebooted in fallback mode
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm working with a group on the Mint forum and I'm trying to do a new
>> install but when I select "some other way" in the partition in order to
>> just replace Mint with the live DVD one I keep getting "no root file system
>> is defined" and I don't know what to do with that
>>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using Mint right now in fallback mode and cant get a
>>> terminal.Firefox works.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:55 AM, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> /var/log/apt/term.log or history.log
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30 May 2015 at 09:55, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Use the live CD / DVD to look into Matt suggestion.
>>>>> "No change in grub could do this, in all cases grub changes would only
>>>>> affect booting, not even shutdown.
>>>>>
>>>>> See in /var/log/apt/term.log or history.log for the full list of
>>>>> things that came with the last few updates, and file a bug report if
>>>>> possible so that the Mint developers can have a look.
>>>>>
>>>>> / Matt"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 May 2015 at 09:52, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Chris, I tried it this am and all OK with the live DVD, without
>>>>>> installing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:41 AM, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Use a live CD / DVD "try without installing".*
>>>>>>> This is why I stopped using HDD Encryption.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 28 May 2015 at 13:01, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello Mathieu, how do I check the log exactly?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <
>>>>>>>> mathieu.tl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On May 28, 2015 12:02 PM, "Raymond House" <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Hi, this morning I got an update for Mint 17.1 which included
>>>>>>>>> something about grub2, after updating Mint crashes on start up.I get no
>>>>>>>>> bottom tool bar and I have no way to see what is working and no way to shut
>>>>>>>>> down so I use the power button.I get a window that says Mint has crashed
>>>>>>>>> and to click if I want to restart it but it does not work, it just brings
>>>>>>>>> up the same window again. Is there a way to restart it the way it was
>>>>>>>>> before the update? I tried to reboot in recovery mode but it does not work.
>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No change in grub could do this, in all cases grub changes would
>>>>>>>>> only affect booting, not even shutdown.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> See in /var/log/apt/term.log or history.log for the full list of
>>>>>>>>> things that came with the last few updates, and file a bug report if
>>>>>>>>> possible so that the Mint developers can have a look.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> / Matt
>>>>>>>>>
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