I am a total newbie in Linux things, I got a cd of Linux Mint 7 from a friend of mine who installed it in his laptop. He said that after I install it, my windows 7 bootloader will be taken over by Linux's GRUB bootloader. Now I don't want that to happen. I wish to use Windows 7's bootloader to give me options on whether to boot into linux mint 7 or windows 7. I am yet to install linux, please suggest me as simply as possible on how to accomplish that. I am bit of an advanced user in Windows but I am worse than useless when it comes to linux.
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Boot into Linux Mint from Windows 7 bootloader
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pjeet89, I'm no Linux expert, either, so this will be the blind leading the blind. My first thought is to use easyBCD to create a new boot entry for Linux. You might need to know which version of GRUB Mint uses, but I'm not sure. That will give you a new boot option on the Windows 7 boot manager menu to load GRUB. But, you don't actually have Mint installed. Can you install it and tell it to use the GRUB that's already there and not add it's own? I don't know.
You should probably ask in the forums at Mint. You might also check the Ubuntu forums because it is so popular and there are many guides there. There may be an Ubuntu guide for what you want to do that can easily be adapted for Mint. If you get it working, I'd be interested to hear how you did it. Good luck!
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