br1anstorm
Active Member
I have been a user of EasyBCD for some years. Back in 2016 I attempted to set up my Windows7 computer as multi-boot with three different Linux OSs (Mint, Lite and PCLinuxOS).
Long story short, it worked..... up to a point. EasyBCD managed to recognise, list, and work with Mint (which uses GRUB2 as bootloader) and PCLOS (which uses GRUB Legacy). But I had problems getting Linux Lite (which also uses GRUB2) to be listed and to boot up. It appeared that EasyBCD had an issue in dealing with two Linux OSs which both used GRUB2. In the end with the help of the Linux forums I did a lot of manual editing of boot files, such that EasyBCD's MBR boot menu showed Win7, or PCLOS, or "Mint & Lite". Then, opting for "Mint & Lite" showed a 'secondary' Grub boot menu screen to give me the choice of which of those two I wanted to boot. More details in this old thread .
I have to note that I'm not sure even now whether the problem arose because Linux Lite developers had (for some reason) tweaked their GRUB2 files in a particular way. I never did try a multiboot configuration using another different GRUB2 distro instead. So for years I've been using only Win7, Mint and PCLOS.
I'm now posting again before attempting a reconfiguration of my setup, to ask what I hope is a simple question. Is it now possible to use EasyBCD to organise multiboot (in BIOS/Legacy mode, not UEFI, with either Win7 or Win10) to add two or more Linux distros, all of which use GRUB2? If that is so, are there any particular steps or actions required to enable this?
Long story short, it worked..... up to a point. EasyBCD managed to recognise, list, and work with Mint (which uses GRUB2 as bootloader) and PCLOS (which uses GRUB Legacy). But I had problems getting Linux Lite (which also uses GRUB2) to be listed and to boot up. It appeared that EasyBCD had an issue in dealing with two Linux OSs which both used GRUB2. In the end with the help of the Linux forums I did a lot of manual editing of boot files, such that EasyBCD's MBR boot menu showed Win7, or PCLOS, or "Mint & Lite". Then, opting for "Mint & Lite" showed a 'secondary' Grub boot menu screen to give me the choice of which of those two I wanted to boot. More details in this old thread .
I have to note that I'm not sure even now whether the problem arose because Linux Lite developers had (for some reason) tweaked their GRUB2 files in a particular way. I never did try a multiboot configuration using another different GRUB2 distro instead. So for years I've been using only Win7, Mint and PCLOS.
I'm now posting again before attempting a reconfiguration of my setup, to ask what I hope is a simple question. Is it now possible to use EasyBCD to organise multiboot (in BIOS/Legacy mode, not UEFI, with either Win7 or Win10) to add two or more Linux distros, all of which use GRUB2? If that is so, are there any particular steps or actions required to enable this?
