how to install linux mint with windows 7

It's quite possible that in fact I copied too big a chunk of the text from the LL grub menu entry in my earlier attempt, so I'll take the blame for that! To be honest, I still don't know how that 40_custom file had extra entries for LL. Then I went into the 40_custom file as root and edited it so that it only had the one entry for Linux Lite (as best I recall, I kept the first entry of the three or more that were there), and saved that. I deleted the cfg.new file which we believed was not in use. I pressed on with trying to sort this before seeing the latest forum posts above. We seem to have made progress, after a fashion. We have emerged into the light at the end of the tunnel!

As I understand it, EasyBCD can apparently handle Grub Legacy separately without getting it tangled up with the Mint/Lite Grub2. I think I'll do the PCLOS install first, just to check and verify that EasyBCD can 'see' and list this and boot into it directly since it uses Grub Legacy.

Now I just need to remember to put 30_os-prober back to its original place when, or before, I do any further grub updating. If I hit Linux Mint & Lite, I get Mint's grub screen, now with the choice of those two options and no redundant listings. On boot I get the Windows bootloader offering those two. EasyBCD now has two listings, Windows 7 and Linux Mint & Lite. So it's all good, and now tidier and simpler. I still have the original Windows bootloader and Win7 is still listed as an option from the outset in EasyBCD. Loss of these latter two is no problem as of course I don't need to get to them via Grub. The two non-working entries for LL have gone - as have the entries for Win7 and Windows Recovery. and the one entry for Description: Linux Lite 2.6 which works. This now contains only Linux Mint 17.3, and its Advanced options, and the two memtests. Sure enough, it re-did Mint's grub boot menu. So I went ahead and put 30_os-prober into a saved file in /etc/grub.d, then hit sudo update-grub. Well, I thought I might as well go down to the wire on this.

How to install linux mint with windows 7