Frankly, I'm a bit nervous playing with this. I could use some help.
As the subject says, I was running Mint 10 for quite a while and then, two months ago, I installed Mint 12 in a dual-boot setup (to see if I liked the new Gnome 3). With extensions I do like Mint 12 and would like to drop Mint 10 from the drive. My problem is, Mint 10 is listed as the boot device in Gparted.
Can I get some advice on getting rid of Mint 10 and making Mint 12 the boot device? Logic would dictate that if I delete the Mint 10 partition the boot process will switch to Mint 12. However, I fear I'll be left with an unbootable machine.
I'd appreciate your advice,
arkiedan
Sorry for the double post. Actually didn't know I did it.
Dual boot Mint 10 & Mint 12 (Solved)
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Dual boot Mint 10 & Mint 12 (Solved)
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Re: Dual boot Mint 10 & Mint 12
Please don't double post, you can delete your other post using the small [x] at the top.
On your problem, is mint 12 in the boot menu? I assume you installed mint12 2nd, in which case it should have control of grub and you should have a /boot/grub folder and in there the grub files and the grub.cfg?
On your problem, is mint 12 in the boot menu? I assume you installed mint12 2nd, in which case it should have control of grub and you should have a /boot/grub folder and in there the grub files and the grub.cfg?
[Edit] your original post and add [SOLVED] once your question is resolved.
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Re: Dual boot Mint 10 & Mint 12
From Linux Mint 12 you can try to use Boot Repair, to reinstall GRUB2 to the MBR so Linux Mint 12 holds the GRUB2 files. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot- ... _in_Ubuntu
