Triple Boot JaS 10.5.2/Win/Ubuntu

[morrie]

I have tried successfully with this current system and TWICE successfully gotten a Mac install, but now I am trying to do a multi-boot (Mac/Win/Ubuntu) and it it's not making any sense.

 

Here's my system:

Intel i865 chipset (Asus P4SD-LA "stingray")

P4 2.8 GHz, 768MB RAM

Sata DVD (LG)

Sata HD (Seagate ST320500AS)

 

I thought I needed SATA drives from what I had read (plus I had tried everything to repeat my initial success) so I ordered the above drives new, and the first install I tried actually worked!!! (I had a working Hackintosh for two days)!

 

(I used this very simple tutorial located here (http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1135890.htm)After the first step, I tested it, and had at least internet(ethernet) working (if not sound). I didn't test Mac after installing Windows, and I went ahead with Ubuntu. I think I screwed up while installing Ubunutu, panicking over the Linux swap partition (I tried to carve it out of the remaining free space - maybe this wasn't important).

So, after the last step in the tutorial (installing Ubuntu and adding it to the bootloader) I restarted to find that choosing "Mac" at bootloader yielded a partition or boot error (if I remeber correctly).

 

So I have even done a 7-step deletion of the drive, re-partitioned it thus (following the above mentioned guide):

Partition1: Mac 20GB GUID Mac Extended Journaled

Partition2: Win (FAT) 20GB

Partition3: Linux(FAT for now- can't do Ext3 in Mac as teh tutorials suggests).

Parition4: Storage (FAT)-I have also tried partitioning this one as Free Space only, didn't work.

 

Then I put it in the Jas Osx86 10.5.2 SSE2/SSE3 Disk (the same one that worked twice) and boot to setup. In Customize, I choose "Apple AC97, PC EFI GUID, KERNEL, and (yes) Darwin Bootloader (It says not to, but it didn't read it the first time, and it worked!!. But trying to duplicate the result has proven about as fruitful as panning for gold. I have tried every combination (adding ICH(5) driver, removing both AC97 and ICH driver, and just installing with KERNEL, and EFI GUID, heck I even tried it as MBR (after 7pass deleting the Mac partition from the above re-partition job, and re-partitioning it as MBR in Disk Utility-Parition-Options). At best, I get "B0" error, or it just Kernel panics (most of the time). Some times it even hangs at the BW pinwheel. Can someone tell me form I have given you what I might be doing wrong? How can it work one time, and not the next? ( I have had enough success to believe it's possible, but enough frustration to drive me mad.)

 

morrie