zimmertr Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I will have two hard drives in my computer. One is a 500gb which will have Windows and Ubuntu on it. And one is a 120gb with Snow Leopard on it. We'll call the 500GB drive A and the 120GB drive B. 1 Pre-Install Boot Gparted and format 500GB drive to MBR + Make partitions Set bios to AHCI. Plug In Drive A 2 Windows Set Windows partition to active Install Windows Registry Hack for AHCI so that I won't get bluescreens on boot. Install drivers Update Windows Install Programs Customize 3 Snow Leopard Remove Drive A Install Drive B Boot Gparted and format Drive B to GUID Set Snow Leopard partition as active. Install Snow Leopard Install kexts and stuff Make a time machine backup Install combo update + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] hacks reboot Backup with time machine Install Programs Plug Drive A back and tell BIOS to boot from Drive B first Try and get chameleon to pick it up. If it doesn't pick it up, try and fix this. [*]Boot in to Windows and add Snow Leopard to easyBCD 4 Ubuntu Boot Gparted and Set Ubuntu as active Install Ubuntu with GRUB on the same partition Update Ubuntu and install drivers Install Programs If Grub2 didn't auto-detect Windows+Chameleon, try and add them. 5 Bootloaders - I'm sure there will be many bootloader issues, at this point I will try and fix them. This Is the desired bootloader setup: POST Chameleon Bootloader Windows [*]Snow Leopard Boots to OS [*]Ubuntu Boots to OS Most likely, this won't work/ can't be done. So if that is the case, then this is how I would like it to be set up: POST Chameleon Bootloader Windows Bootloader [*]Snow Leopard Boots to OS [*]Ubuntu Return to Chameleon Go to Windows Bootloader Boot Ubuntu Is this a proper Tri-Booting install and will my bootloader set up work? Return to Chameleon Boot Windows Go To GRUB Boots to OS If this doesn't work, try and fix it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Overly complicated. You don't have to do anything to the 120GB drive before installing OS X on it. Use Apple Disk Utility on your install DVD to partition and format it before starting the installation. Just like you would on a real Mac. Post install, install Chameleon to your OS X drive and configure it to boot OS X automatically. Refer to boothelp.txt for more information. Only use Chameleon to boot OS X. Windows 7 will not sleep/hibernate and cannot be upgraded to SP1 if you boot it with Chameleon. Work is being done to fix these issues: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,2091.0.html Follow some tutorial from somewhere else to do whatever you have to do to install Grub, Linux and Windows 7 to the other drive. And just enable AHCI before installing Windows. It works fine! Grub should be able to see Chameleon as well and let you select it I guess. You may have to add an entry for it manually. I believe this is known as chain loading, try a forum search to find more information. I'm not sure how Grub works these days, I haven't used it in a long time, I use the BIOS boot selector (F8 on my PC) to select which drive I want to boot. But I only have one OS on each drive. I agree, if you're not a mega multibooting expert it's probably a good idea to unplug one drive while working on the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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