What is Arg1?
 

Just the other day I decided to see what was wrong with my Mint installation (version 17 Rafaela). Here's what the error message said.

There was also a list of hard drive divisions, and a line reading "BIOS: Drive=0x0, H=0, S=0". I'm running Windows 7 with (I think) EasyBCD as a boot manager. Please help.

It would be useful if you were to indicate exactly what you did to get that information?

When I start the laptop, it presents me with a choice of booting Windows or Mint. I chose Mint and the 'arg1' screen came up. Is there any way I could take a screenshot of the screens in question?

Smartphone and upload to say imgur.com or postimage.org

did you by chance run or LET run all on it's own the Microsoft Windows Update??????

i am betting you did

i would reinstall grub2


by chance you did not use something like easyBCD did you ????
-- you are !

there is and never was a need for that
grub can boot windows JUST FINE

install grub2

not only can the FREE default grub2 bootloader boot windows
but will auto ASK you if you want it to at the time of install
and would AUTO add it ( and a nice fancy icon ) to the boot menu

I am just curious what is an Arg1 is. Tried to search it google, doesn't find any relevant one.

The trouble with that is, I don't have a smartphone.

My brother didn't know that. Chill.

I'm sorry, all; it seems the relevant term is 'ang1', not 'arg1'. I found this thread about how to fix the problem, but then when I tried Mint couldn't mount /dev/sda5 from the terminal.

You have to be root to mount a drive. How did you try to mount /dev/sda5?

I did use sudo. The odd thing is, when I looked in GParted, it showed my extended partition as being mounted even though I'm running Mint from a USB key.

How did you try to mount /dev/sda5, what commands did you use, or what program? Sda5 is usually an extended parition, which can't be mounted as such. You mount the logical partitions inside the extended partition. GParted doesn't really show what is mounted, only existing partitions.