PvP_LostKnight Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Hi all, first post here. I researched around for 3 days and finally was successful in installing 3 OS onto my Laptop. Laptop= DV6449US, Turion x2, 2gb, 160gb hdd. First I popped in Vista and partitioned 2: NTFS and freespace. After installation of Vista, I downloaded POWERISO and Ubuntu and mounted Ubuntu. I then installed Ubuntu within windows so window's MBR has 2 OSs now: Vista and Ubuntu. After installing those 2 OS's, I popped in Kalyway 10.5.2 pressed F8 then -F. It booted up into OSX installer and I installed OSX. Now if you restart it, you will now get some crappy errors. I then popped in gparted and made window's flag boot. I restarted my laptop into Vista and downloaded freeBCD. I then clicked on add/remove and made a OSX boot command to be joined into the MBR. Upon doing this, when I restarted it will show me 3 OS: Windows, Ubuntu and OSX on my MBR. Clicking on OSX, it will take me to two options: OSX NTFS and OSX. I clicked the down button to get OSX since clicking on the NTFS will just bring me back to the MBR. Then I clicked -F and it booted up into the first time setup installer shield. Upon completion of the shield, I was able to boot up into OSX. I did a time trial from booting up cold to OSX and it took 5min15sec. Hope that helps everyone! Also does anyone know if I can setup the darwin so it can boot into -F instead of the original verbose mode? And does anyone know how to speed up the load time? Thanks for reading! Good luck! EDIT: Just got the -F to autostart. I just went into the com.apple.boot.plist file and changed -v to -F. Still need to delete the NTFS OSX option in window's MBR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schwamm Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 I set up a triple boot with OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 on my PC simply by editing the entries in the GRUB bootloader. It was quite simple and provides a quick and easy interface for choosing an OS. It might be slightly easier for me though, as I have OS X on one hard drive and Ubuntu and Windows on another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acfrazier Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Hey, thanks. This really helped me as I was having issues getting set up on my HP DV6449US Laptop. I wanted to have the best of all worlds, Linux, Windows, and OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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