Recently made a dual boot with Win7 and Mint 17.2 Cinnamon. I then decided i just wanted Mint. So installed Mint again choosing the erase the entire disk option. Grub loading screen was still there on reboot. Is there any way to get rid of it? Google is full of help for going back to windows.. Linux, not so much.

I have tried...

Formatting the drive with windows 7. Then quitting and installing Mint.

sudo apt-get remove --purge grub

sudo rm -r /boot

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

I know i can hide it with the grub config but i still see the blank screen where its about to load. I just installed Mint in a virtual box.. No loader scene.. the way it's supposed to be. Why cant i remove it completely from the the actual computer i want to use? I'd like it to just not be there. Like in my virtual box. I've reinstalled about 8 times now and it just wont go away! hehe

Halp!

EDIT: I just figured it out. All i did was use the usb stick that i used on the laptop i "dug out". Created by Rufus. I guess it was the stick i was using.. It was created by Yumi and had Win7 and Mint on it. Problem solved. NO Grub boot screen! I honestly can't believe not a single person on here thought it was strange to have a multi boot screen with no multi boot.

Hello and welcome to LQ.

Grub is a loader, it is generally needed to get linux running. At one time you had some other choices.

If your post is backwards and you want to install the windows loader then that is a horse of a different color.

You have to have a boot-loader - yes, even in VBox.
You don't however have to sit and wait for the menu.
Explain exactly what you did.
Simple answer should be to ensure GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is unset, and GRUB_TIMEOUT is set to zero.

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-::-Because a Linux operating system can't boot without a bootloader.-::-

I know its a loader. I know It needs a loader. I just don't get why the option screen with memtest needs to pop up. Or why i need to hide it with tricks. This morning i installed Mint. It booted directly into the OS. No screen, no configuring (just like Virtual box). Ever since i did the dual boot nothing i do gets rid of the grub screen that lets you choose between Linux and memtest.

Performing a dual boot is not going to get rid of the Grub screen.
Grub has to run in order for your os to boot up. AFAIK you can't get rid of it.
Even if you changed to the LILO bootloader you would still have the same result.

If Windows is still showing up in your Grub Menu and you told Mint to take over the Windows partitions than it's because you didn't run 'grub-update' in the terminal.

If you hate the Grub Menu that much than install 'Grub Customiser' and choose a picture of choice on your pc to load instead of that black and white Grub Menu screen.

http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-gru...entary-os-0-2/

http://linuxbsdos.com/2014/12/03/use...nux-mint-17-1/

There is no windows or dual boot involved. It's just mint. I have installed mint a few times over the last couple days. The screen i am talking about never showed up until i tried to dual boot. Which makes sense when you are actually dual booting. I am not. Ever since then it shows up every single time (about 9 clean installs of just Mint now) no mater what i do.

EDIT: Maybe i am just crazy.. You guys are saying that Mint always has that screen, no mater what. In every single install? I swear it wasn't there when i installed it this morning. And it does not show up in virtual box.

I fail to see what the problem is. The Grub boot menu is only on screen for a few seconds anyway. Good grief.

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In a dual boot or not you will always have the Grub Menu screen.

-::-Every distribution has that GNU Grub Menu screen-::-

It's not good to keep installing over and over again it (might) create a bad sector on the HDD.

I guess i just don't understand why it never showed up until i tried to dual boot...

Every distribution? Of Linux or mint? I know im in the newb forum but i have tried a few non mint distros recently and have never seen it until this afternoon. Mint Xfce didn't have it.

You could try this thread but I've never tried it-
Try at your own risk- IMO I wouldn't do it-

http://askubuntu.com/questions/11108...inning-of-boot

I have done that. It hides it but there is a brief screen where it should be. Im trying to get it back to the way it was in my other tests all the way up until i dual booted with Win7.

Well, I just dug out an old laptop. Installed Mint 17.2 Cinnamon. No GRUB screen.

The default setting with Grub2 is if only one operating system is installed, no boot menu. If two or more, there is a boot menu. You might look at the link below and see if it has the answer you want.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/14809...ult-boot-entry

Besides hidden did you set the grub timer to zero, Which IMHO isn't a good idea in case there is problems.

@ Yancek, guess I was little slow posting, and you even provided a link, LOL.