I am thinking of dual-booting Linux Mint on Mac OS X, and for that reason I was reading a tutorial about it (http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1643).
After Mint's installation the tutorial focuses on changing the boot order (because OS X would be booted first by default) to make the system boot into Grub . I was wondering if this step is necessary, considering I would run Linux occasionally, while using mostly OS X.
Can't I just use OS X boot manager (holding the option key at start-up) to choose the Mint partition when I want to use it? Would there be side effects?