LINUX MINT LITE HOW TO
If your distribution is not one of the above, search how to update a bootloader of your distribution. I also explain this process for Arch Linux in more details here. Sudo pacman -S os-prober & sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg For example, if you installed the Linux Mint system without a bootloader on sda2, mount it: Also, you need to make sure that the partition with a newly installed system is mounted during the update.
Update your main bootloaderĪfter this installation process, you will need to update your bootloader, so it can see the new system. So, ubiquity with the option -b should work on Ubuntu and all its derivatives. I can also confirm that this approach works for Ubuntu and KDE Neon. I installed Linux Mint without a bootloader this way and everything went as it supposed to. Ubiquity without the bootloader installation option It will install the system without a bootloader. To see all options available in ubiquity, run:Īmong these options, the option -b is what you need. Ubiquity is the installer in Ubuntu and all its derivatives. The Linux Mint installer is called ubiquity.
I think this is a precaution of the Linux Mint team, so new users do not end up with installation without a bootloader.īut if you know what you are doing and you want to install Linux Mint without a bootloader, you need to start the installer from the command line. If you boot from the Linux Mint live image, start the installer by double-clicking on it, follow the installation instructions and select the manual partition, you will see that there is no option NOT to install a bootloader. When I talk about a bootloader here, I mean GRUB bootloader. I use GRUB on all my system, Linux Mint uses GRUB as a bootloader and you are also most likely have GRUB bootloader on your system. There are several bootloaders available for Linux.
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