01-13-2016, 01:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2016, 02:08 AM by gold_finger.)
EDIT ADDED LATER: Just saw that you have similar post for help on Mint forum. You received a reply with possible solution to booting both Mint and LL from austin.texas that sounds like it may work and should be easier than what I have posted below. Would recommend you try his solution first. If doesn't work, then try mine below.
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Learn something new every day. I had no idea EasyBCD had that problem.
Based on your description of problem, I'm going to make a purely speculative guess at a possible solution. Here's my thought process.
From the sounds of it, if you choose to boot Linux, EasyBCD passes booting responsibility to grub which then boots the distro. If more than one distro uses grub2, it only recognizes and lists one of them for booting. If the distro's grub that takes over has been updated to include boot choices for other installed distros, they will then show on the grub menu and can boot from there. (That is my speculation. I don't know that to be true.)
I'm guessing that when you choose Mint from EasyBCD menu, it either boots straight into Mint, or shows grub menu with only Mint choices for booting and no choices to boot LL. I say that because I'm guessing you never went into Mint and updated grub to include LL because you knew ahead of time that LL would not boot properly that way.
So, here's my theory: You're going to want to have LL's grub be the one referred to by EasyBCD and you should also be able to boot Mint from LL's grub menu.
Boot into Mint and delete grub packages so it's no longer installed there. (Use "Quick Search" box in Synaptic Package Manager to search for "grub" and "Mark for complete removal" any grub packages that show as being installed.) Then reboot into Windows and remove the Mint entry from EasyBCD. Then tell EasyBCD to look for distros to boot again and it should only find the grub for LL. Add that to EasyBCD, then reboot and see if you can boot into LL.
Also, since you installed LL after Mint, I'm guessing that LL's grub will already have a boot choice listed for Mint (and Windows too for that matter). Boot into LL first to see if it works. Then reboot and try to boot into Mint. With any luck, I'm guessing this will all work.
If you can boot into LL but there is no choice showing to boot Mint, just open a terminal in LL and enter this command to add it to the grub boot menu:
Next reboot should now have Mint listed and I'm guessing that it will work.
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Learn something new every day. I had no idea EasyBCD had that problem.
Based on your description of problem, I'm going to make a purely speculative guess at a possible solution. Here's my thought process.
From the sounds of it, if you choose to boot Linux, EasyBCD passes booting responsibility to grub which then boots the distro. If more than one distro uses grub2, it only recognizes and lists one of them for booting. If the distro's grub that takes over has been updated to include boot choices for other installed distros, they will then show on the grub menu and can boot from there. (That is my speculation. I don't know that to be true.)
I'm guessing that when you choose Mint from EasyBCD menu, it either boots straight into Mint, or shows grub menu with only Mint choices for booting and no choices to boot LL. I say that because I'm guessing you never went into Mint and updated grub to include LL because you knew ahead of time that LL would not boot properly that way.
So, here's my theory: You're going to want to have LL's grub be the one referred to by EasyBCD and you should also be able to boot Mint from LL's grub menu.
Boot into Mint and delete grub packages so it's no longer installed there. (Use "Quick Search" box in Synaptic Package Manager to search for "grub" and "Mark for complete removal" any grub packages that show as being installed.) Then reboot into Windows and remove the Mint entry from EasyBCD. Then tell EasyBCD to look for distros to boot again and it should only find the grub for LL. Add that to EasyBCD, then reboot and see if you can boot into LL.
Also, since you installed LL after Mint, I'm guessing that LL's grub will already have a boot choice listed for Mint (and Windows too for that matter). Boot into LL first to see if it works. Then reboot and try to boot into Mint. With any luck, I'm guessing this will all work.
If you can boot into LL but there is no choice showing to boot Mint, just open a terminal in LL and enter this command to add it to the grub boot menu:
Code:
sudo update-grubNext reboot should now have Mint listed and I'm guessing that it will work.
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