[SOLVED] Peppermint 7 Fresh Install Won't Boot

[minhtung91]

I downloaded the Peppermint-7-20161201-amd64.iso which is the respin.

[minhtung91]

Not sure if this will help but I tried to install both Lubuntu 16.10 and 16.04 and both times I ran into the BusyBox issue. I am not too sure if this is a version problem...

[PCNetSpec]

Well I'm baffled by that because Lubuntu 16.04 and Mint 18 are both based on Ubuntu 16.04

I'd have to check if they were using a different version of GRUB, and there's always the slight chance it's that Mint are loading different modules (but I doubt it) .. so all I can think of is comparing the grub.cfg from a Mint install and a Peppermint 7 / Lubuntu 16.04 one.

[PCNetSpec]

Do you know how to edit the GRUB kernel boot line ?

and do you know your monitor resolution ?

[minhtung91]

Does editing the GRUB kernel boot line start with pressing "e" at the grub menu?
My monitor resolution is 1028 x 768

[PCNetSpec]

it does yes

At GRUB, hit "e" to edit.

Now find the line that ends with:-

quiet splash --

and make it end with

quiet splash vga=791

then hit Ctrl+X to boot.

does it boot ?

[minhtung91]

No. Nothing changed... 

[PCNetSpec]

try making it end with

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quiet splash nomodeset

or

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quiet splash radeon.modeset=0

or

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quiet splash ati.modeset=0

[minhtung91]

Nope. Didn't work either...

[minhtung91]

Yep. It was a live USB problem. Maybe something to do with unetbootin. When i remade the live USB with the "dd" command, the error disappeared. I am typing this from my new install of Peppermint 7!  This thing is super fast! Feels even faster than Lubuntu! Thanks everyone for the help! Especially, PCNetSpec! 

[AndyInMokum]

Yep. It was a live USB problem. Maybe something to do with unetbootin. When i remade the live USB with the "dd" command, the error disappeared. I am typing this from my new install of Peppermint 7!  This thing is super fast! Feels even faster than Lubuntu! Thanks everyone for the help! Especially, PCNetSpec! 

Good old "dd" to the rescue  .  It's really reliable as long as you know what you're doing.  If you don't, it'll jump up and bite you hard  . 

It’s great to know you’ve resolved your issue .  Thanks for marking the topic as, [SOLVED]  .

[PCNetSpec]

Yep. It was a live USB problem. Maybe something to do with unetbootin. When i remade the live USB with the "dd" command, the error disappeared. I am typing this from my new install of Peppermint 7!

Terrific news .. glad you figured it out because this one had me stumped

Weird that it ran from the USB and only failed post installation