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[Mebster]

I installed XP, OS X and then Ubuntu so that I've got grub loaded.

The GRUB shows all 3 Ubuntu options to go into and also XP under "other operating systems", but no OS X.

How do I get OS X to be reconised by GRUB?

I've looked at the wiki and found one tutorial but that didn't seem to work, or maybe I was doing it wrong. Sorry, new to Linux.


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And btw do I need the three Ubuntu options in GRUB? Just seems like to many and it clutteres the boot menu.

[fishyeah]

Boot into Ubuntu and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
add the following lines to the end:
title MacOSX
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader --force +1

The second line you have to specify the partition for your Mac OSX. Check it through:
sudo fdisk -l

/dev/sda2 is (hd0,1); /dev/sdb3 is (hd1,2)

Change the title line to anything you like, for Windows partition, change it to something like "Windows XP"

[Mebster]

Boot into Ubuntu and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
add the following lines to the end:
title MacOSX
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader --force +1

The second line you have to specify the partition for your Mac OSX. Check it through:
sudo fdisk -l

/dev/sda2 is (hd0,1); /dev/sdb3 is (hd1,2)

Change the title line to anything you like, for Windows partition, change it to something like "Windows XP"

Hi fishyeah, thanks for the great post. Really helped a lot mate. I guess sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst and sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst do the same thing.

Anyway thanks again.