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First of all, the grub shell is not the bash shell. Or the cshell or z shell. fdisk is a file in the /sbin directory which you access through one of the shells I just mentioned. What you would have to do is reboot into the Linux Mint Live CD open a terminal on that and type fdisk -l because THEN you would be in the bash shell.
Checkiing the grub manual at info grub gets the following:
http://info2html.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/info2html-demo/info2html?(grub.info.gz)Commands
(actually I was going to cut and paste 13.3 from the info manual installed on my slackware box but it is obviously on-line too). Those are ALL the commands you can use for the grub shell. I would grab your Mint CD or a Knoppix disk (and make sure you type “knoppix” at the boot prompt) and get into a bash shell. Do your diagnostic work there and then you should be able to figure out how to fix it.
This posting is about the same problem on Ubuntu. It doesn’t solve it but it shows you thigs to look at:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/156932-ubuntu-9-10-mint-8-0-error-out-disk-install.html
Here is a page for Linux Mint 9. It was solved but with a reinstall:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=48346
Good luck.
Experience.
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