Last night I finally got around to setting up a triple boot with Tiger, Jaunty and XP on my MacBook. All three OS' are working perfectly, but there's just one little thing nagging me.

From the rEFIt menu, selecting the Mac icon takes me directly into Tiger. Selecting the Linux icon takes me to the grub menu, which lists Jaunty and XP. The same thing applies if I select the Windows icon.

I don't mind that the Linux icon takes me to the grub menu, because I can just edit the menu.lst file and set the timeout to 0, making it automatically select Jaunty everytime, which essentially means that selecting the Linux icon will take me directly to Jaunty, similar to how selecting the Mac icon takes me into Tiger.

I do, however, find it annoying that selecting the Windows icon takes me to the grub menu, which I then need to navigate to select XP, meaning I need to make two selections upon booting before I can get into Windows.

What I need to do, is make rEFIt make the Windows icon point directly to Windows rather than the grub menu. How can I do this?

Cheers for your time

Well guys I just got this sorted there now. Here's what I did:

Basically, I had to boot into Ubuntu, and install grub from there. To do this, in the Terminal, type:

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sudo grub
> find /boot/grub/stage1

This returned "(hd0,2)" for me, so then I typed:

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> root (hd0,2)
> setup (hd0,2)

Which then produced a few lines of output. After this, I rebooted, to find that I now had one Mac entry, two Linux entries, and one Windows entry. This was a little alarming, but after a little experimentation, it seemed both Linux entries pointed to my good Jaunty install.

So then I continued on with my refinement.

I booted off my Windows XP CD, and entered repair mode. After selecting the first (and only) entry for the Windows entries, I then typed FIXMBR into the repair console. The console warned me that my MBR was potentially damaged, and that executing the command could cause the end of the world as we know it, but I decided to go ahead with it anyway.

After exiting the repair console, and rebooting, my rEFIt entries were restored to one Mac, one Linux and one Windows entry. I tried booting into all 3, and the Mac icon took me directly into Mac, the Linux icon took me to grub, which then took me to Jaunty when I selected it, and the Windows icon took me directly to XP - happy times!

So then, I just modified the menu.lst file in Jaunty to give me a timeout of 0, and list only the main Jaunty install, and now, all three icons take me directly to their corresponding OS'!

Cheers to anyone who took the time to read my first post, and I hope this is of help to someone else in the future!

Credit goes to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=868363
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=330...mp;postcount=11