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

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Next test complete.

In Mint, got rid of the 40_custom file first to make sure that doesn't come into play.

Then booted into LL and purged all grub packages with this command:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge grub*

A long list of things showed in terminal, which I ignored, but near end it said that it was going to purge 5-6 grub packages and asked for "y" or "n" confirmation.  I hit "y" and let it remove them.  (I only briefly looked at the other stuff that showed in window and got the impression it related to available updates.  I have not updated the LL on this computer for 1-2 months.  So I just ignored it.)  For whatever reason it also installed some ubiquity-artwork during the purge.  I just let it do that.

Note:  during purge process a screen will pop-up asking if you want to delete grub.cfg file (if I remember right).  Answer is defaulted to "No".  Change that to "Yes" and hit enter.

Then rebooted into Mint and did sudo update-grub again.  This time, without the 40_custom file in play, the only LL listing that resulted in the menu was the one found by 30_os-prober (which is the file that normally looks for and adds other found OS's to the menu).  It found LL as it should.  Rebooted computer and chose the LL listing and it worked.  The only thing different this time is that you don't have the normal LL splash screen -- it shows the lines of output going down the screen during startup (which is normally what's going on behind the scenes of the splash screen -- so it's not a problem).

So, you can accomplish goal by either austin.texas method (easiest), by deleting Mint's grub and letting LL's grub be in charge, or by just deleting LL's grub and letting Mint continue as-is (second easiest).  Just remember to update grub in Mint after deleting LL's grub.