[cseanc]

Yesterday I dual-boot my laptop with Linux Mint 10 and Ubuntu 10.10 i386.
At the first few boots, everything just went fine.

Then, Linux Mint started to fail booting. So I use Ubuntu instead.

However, when using Ubuntu, suddenly my laptop hanged, and my mouse could do nothing on the screen.
Keyboard is still usable, so I ran a command-line to force shutdown.

After that, my laptop just failed to boot anything, not even a live cd, or a live usb.

I ran the memory test, and also the hard disk test on the BIOS menu. No error was detected through the tests either.

Is it the problem with the computer's bootloader then? I'm totally lost.

[beju0506]

cseanc, on 08 April 2011 - 01:40 AM, said:

Yesterday I dual-boot my laptop with Linux Mint 10 and Ubuntu 10.10 i386.
At the first few boots, everything just went fine.

Then, Linux Mint started to fail booting. So I use Ubuntu instead.

However, when using Ubuntu, suddenly my laptop hanged, and my mouse could do nothing on the screen.
Keyboard is still usable, so I ran a command-line to force shutdown.

After that, my laptop just failed to boot anything, not even a live cd, or a live usb.

I ran the memory test, and also the hard disk test on the BIOS menu. No error was detected through the tests either.

Is it the problem with the computer's bootloader then? I'm totally lost.

If you're not able to boot from even a live CD or live USB, then the issue isn't your bootloader (which would be stored on your hard drive). By using a live CD you bypass the hard drive and run directly from memory. Are you able to get into the bios at all? (when you start the computer, you get the flash screen that tells what sort of computer you have and usually says something like "hit del for setup" or something like that) If you're not even getting that far, something is physically wrong with your computer. If you ARE able to get that far, you should be able to look and see if any of your drives are being recognized by the computer's motherboard. If so, and you have a CD/DVD drive that is being seen, it SHOULD boot from that. If it will boot from the live CD, it's probably your hard drive. If not, it's likely there's something physically wrong.

Hopefully that helps some... if you can give us some more information as to what the computer says when you try and start it, that would help us narrow things down some.

[no2pencil]

I would verify that your live cds boot on another machine before troubleshooting further thinking they work.

It would be odd that you can get into bios, but nothing is boot-able. Are all of the devices SATA, IDE, or a mix?

[lemonchicken]

..bios upgrade??

[DaneAU]

I used to have just this problem with my laptop when running Vista and Ubuntu. There was no solution to it other than running a virtual machine environment within one of the operating systems. I could not get this error resolved and i remember reading certain information that suggested it would always occur for some odd reason.

So perhaps try just running one operating system. It is quite odd you are running mint and ubuntu considering they are quite similar. Perhaps choose one and just stick with it