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gun1t2014-03-24 17:08:00
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gun1t, 2014-03-24 17:08:00

How to install Linux mint 16 as a second system after Windows 7?

Hello, this is the second day I've been sitting on google, and I can not find an answer to my question. The problem is the following, when installing Mint, it does not show the Windows bootloader. I put it not for the first time, before that I had Ubuntu, there, during installation, the Windows bootloader itself was picked up in grub.
Already tried to put it differently, does not see and point-blank. The disk is marked as follows. 100mb partition reserved by windows, 85gb drive C where windows itself is installed, and 64gb allocated space.
When installing Mint, I break it like this: 8gb swap area, 15gb / root directory, and the rest under the /home partition. The installation runs without errors, after a reboot it immediately loads into Mint. Tried to play with grub, got confused already.
I'm not asking you to completely solve the problem for me, I'm asking you to point me in the right direction, maybe someone has come across it. Thank you very much for your time.
UPDATE:
I solved the problem in the following way. I opened the grub config: nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg , and added the following to the ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### section :

menuentry "Windows 7" {
set root=(hd0,msdos1)
chainloader +1
}

Now the boot menu has an item with Windows 7, and successfully loaded. Thank you all very much.

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wolf-9830, 2014-03-24
@gun1t

Hello! I think you are not asking the right question in the search, try restoring the grub bootloader.

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Sild, 2014-03-24
@Sild

sudo apt-get install grub
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/dev/sdxN
sudo update-grub

This is already from under the mint. My Mint immediately picks up Windows, and in Ubuntu it was necessary to update it with my hands.

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