I recently wanted to "clean up" my SSD (1TB Samsung 940EVO) so I made an image of my OS's: Linux Mint 17.3, Windows 7 ULT + SP!, and Windows 10 PRO. I am using the latest BIBM version (don't remember the number). I made sure they were good images by restoring each to a blank portion of my SSD and booting them. (NOTE: I only booted each once during checkout). After checking, I removed all, cleared the boot sectors, and reinstalled Linux Mint as the first partition. It booted okay once and the second time all I get is a flashing cursor at the top left part of my screen. I wanted to resize it so I tried KB 590 using fsck -fy with the Linux Mint Live CD on a USB flash drive. This didn't fix the problem and it still will not boot. I uninstalled everything and restored Linux Mint again and it booted once and then won't boot the second time. I then reimaged Win7 as the second partition to write this post. I haven't reinstalled Win10 and I don't intend to at this point in time. All of my images are on a second 1TB Hitachi HD. I am going on an extended weekend so will not see this until Sunday but any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.
Bob S
Linux Mint won't reboot aafter restore.
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Re: Linux Mint won't reboot aafter restore.
sounds like something in linux is alternating something after booting. You
could try reinstalling grub if that's what it's doing. or perhaps if you're
using a linux av program it's putting back a bad mbr.
"RFSndrs" wrote in message news:11885@public.bootitbm...
I recently wanted to "clean up" my SSD (1TB Samsung 940EVO) so I made an
image of my OS's: Linux Mint 17.3, Windows 7 ULT + SP!, and Windows 10 PRO.
I am using the latest BIBM version (don't remember the number). I made sure
they were good images by restoring each to a blank portion of my SSD and
booting them. (NOTE: I only booted each once during checkout). After
checking, I removed all, cleared the boot sectors, and reinstalled Linux
Mint as the first partition. It booted okay once and the second time all I
get is a flashing cursor at the top left part of my screen. I wanted to
resize it so I tried KB 590 using fsck -fy with the Linux Mint Live CD on a
USB flash drive. This didn't fix the problem and it still will not boot. I
uninstalled everything and restored Linux Mint again and it booted once and
then won't boot the second time. I then reimaged Win7 as the second
partition to write this post. I haven't reinstalled Win10 and I don't intend
to at this point in time. All of my images are on a second 1TB Hitachi HD. I
am going on an extended weekend so will not see this until Sunday but any
suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.
Bob S
could try reinstalling grub if that's what it's doing. or perhaps if you're
using a linux av program it's putting back a bad mbr.
"RFSndrs" wrote in message news:11885@public.bootitbm...
I recently wanted to "clean up" my SSD (1TB Samsung 940EVO) so I made an
image of my OS's: Linux Mint 17.3, Windows 7 ULT + SP!, and Windows 10 PRO.
I am using the latest BIBM version (don't remember the number). I made sure
they were good images by restoring each to a blank portion of my SSD and
booting them. (NOTE: I only booted each once during checkout). After
checking, I removed all, cleared the boot sectors, and reinstalled Linux
Mint as the first partition. It booted okay once and the second time all I
get is a flashing cursor at the top left part of my screen. I wanted to
resize it so I tried KB 590 using fsck -fy with the Linux Mint Live CD on a
USB flash drive. This didn't fix the problem and it still will not boot. I
uninstalled everything and restored Linux Mint again and it booted once and
then won't boot the second time. I then reimaged Win7 as the second
partition to write this post. I haven't reinstalled Win10 and I don't intend
to at this point in time. All of my images are on a second 1TB Hitachi HD. I
am going on an extended weekend so will not see this until Sunday but any
suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.
Bob S
Re: Linux Mint won't reboot aafter restore.
Thank you, Terabyte Support. That was my problem. I reinstalled grub according to the TB Knowledge Base 408 and I have booted into Linux and Windows 7 several times with no more hiccups. Sorry to come here for Linux help, but I am not limiting primaries and don't want to screw anything up with pure Linux advice.