A boot manager app. for Mint?

Edward78 · 23 Jan 2014 at 04:34

So reinstalling Windows on a dual boot system sucks, the evil MS OS wipes out grub/lilo. So I was wondering if there is a boot manager app. for Mint 16? When I used OpenSUSE many years ago, I remember YaST2 had a Boot manager setup app., it let you save lilo/grub to a drive, set order if the OSs in menu & time for auteo boot of a OS. does I think I have Cinamin have a tool like that?

Reza86 · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:40

If you've installed in UEFI mode the I recommend rEFIned. Easy to set up and manage.

Edward78 · 23 Jan 2014 at 16:35

rEFIt is distributed in the hope that it will be useful. EFI is a powerful environment, but it also makes it easy to destroy your data or disable your computer altogether. rEFIt comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk. You have been warned. Ya, I think I won't try it.

Reza86 · 24 Jan 2014 at 13:03

Up to you, just a suggestion. The risks are actually minimal, it just installs to the EFI partition, you can always disable it in the BIOS and revert to loading using the default bootloader.