[SOLVED] Dual-boot or multi-boot of Linux Lite (and others) with Windows 7

[gold_finger]

Well, didn't take long to find out the result.  Rebooted, got to Mint's Grub screen, and...... no change.  The listing of options (Mint, recovery mode, memtest, Win7 etc) all exactly the same as before.  No trace of Linux Lite as an additional option.  So the alternative route of inserting LL into Mint's Grub, seems not to have worked, which is a pity.  But what puzzles me is why it worked for austin.texas (who suggested it) and isn't working for me.  The "syntax error" must surely be part of the reason?

Just in case it helps with the detective work, once I had rebooted into Mint I went into the file manager and had a look into its /boot/grub.  In there I noticed two grub (menu?) files, grub.cfg and grub.cfg.new.  The latter was modified today. ......and it includes the Linux Lite entry - in fact more than one.  And line 386 in that cfg.new file is actually the very last line, not a part of the body of the LL entry.  I have no idea what this means....!  I can copy and paste the whole of that grub.cfg.new file if that would help to figure out the error.

"syntax error" probably the cause.  Could be (and probably is) something stupid like a missing parenthesis, a space in the wrong place, etc.  Suggest you copy/paste the full contents of that grub.cfg.new file to site like pastebin, then post link to it back here and also to the Mint forum for austin.texas to take a look at too.  Before posting the output, open gedit and changes preferences so it shows the line numbers.  That will make finding the mistake a lot easier for us.  Gedit -> Edit -> Preferences -> View -> Display line numbers.

Just one additional or supplementary question on the "gold_finger route" to make all this work, since I have been thinking-through what to do while awaiting comments on my description of the unsuccessful efforts so far.

This may be an obvious, or dumb, question.

If - as suggested - I go into Mint and delete all its grub packages (and remove the Mint entry from EasyBCD), then even if EasyBCD is able to find Linux Lite, will Linux Lite (whose grub does currently list Mint) then be able to boot Mint into action?  Doesn't LL's grub need to see and hand over the booting task to Mint's own grub?  Or can LL's grub boot Mint up if Mint itself doesn't have any grub packages?

Grub packages in Mint are not needed for LL to be able to boot it.  I have one computer with AntiX and Arch on it.  Installed Arch second and did not install any grub packages for it.  AntiX boots it no problem.


I've got a computer with LL and Mint on it with LL's grub currently in charge.  Going to try austin.texas method on mine to see what happens switching control to Mint.  Will report back when done.