PremiseI am running Linux Mint on my sister's computer. Everything was working fine, but than one day she turned it on and she got a strange message she didn't understand.  I think it was some kind of question in terminal. Unfortunately my sister despides her natural inteligence didn't know what to do and decided to simple turned the computer off. Since then everything goes wrong.The problemWhen booting i got classic Linux Mint splash screen, when pressing ESC I get this: The message on third row and later mean:/dev/sda5 clean, 182625/1602496 files, 1140445/6401536 blocks/dev/sda6 clean, 20551/10928128 files, 14921843/43686912 blocksPartition for /home is not readyor present.Continue waiting or press S for skipping the mounting or M for manual mount.Pressing neither of those buttons work. It is simlpy stuck and does nothing.Attempt 1 - recovery modeSo I've realized I am having problem with /dev/sda5 or /dev/sda6. I booted into recovery mode. I tried to check for consistency of packages and I got:Again the same message, only one more:/dev/sda6: the journal is renewingAgain nothing happens. Choosing different operation in recovery mode menu leads to the same thing.Attempt 2 - gpartedI've downloaded a live cd with gparted to check out the disks. In gparted I've checked the disks, no errors. Hm. I mounted the both /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda5 in terminal, which worked. I was able to see all data unharmed.Attempt 3 - getting rid of /homeBecause everything has been about the bloody /dev/sda6 which is automaticly mounted to /home I've decided to remove it from /etc/fstab and leave only the system disk /dev/sda5. It was easy hence I was in gparted already. I rebooted and nothing happened. Not even splash screen, no message, no sound from computer at all. It was running, but doing nothing. Uff.EDIT: I am still able to get past grub. This nothing happens AFTER choosing Linux Mint in grub.Attempt 4 - reinstall?Since I have the /home on seperate partition I was wondering I could simple reinstall the system. I've downloaded ISO, put it on USB and I was astonished to get another terminal like text and freeze:Attempt 5 - Stack ExchangeYou are on, guys.Final notesI have the feeling all this leads to hardware problems, but a) i've successfully mounted both partitions and b) i have windows 7 on another partition (but same disk) that works. I guess formatting the disk using gparted and install linux mint again would work, however I would prefer saving all the data (I would have to back up everything).Any help how to debug or fix this problem will be much appreciated.Reportsfdisk -l https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71390144/keepers/fdisklfsck -n /dev/sda6 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71390144/keepers/fsck6cat /etc/fstab https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71390144/keepers/fstabsmartctl -a /dev/sda https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71390144/keepers/smartctl
Linux Mint freezes on startup
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It's hard to say how much I can concider this as an answer, but it is a solution. I finally decided to give a try to 32bit installation ISO, which miraclously worked. I installed the system and everything works fine. When I tried again (after the install) the 64bit ISO could be loaded. I have no idea why what so ever.Anyway, if you experience any trouble similiar to this, just try to use 32bit installation ISO.