MacAllah Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Hello! I'm new here and have spent the past hour browsing the forums, but I haven't found a solution to my specific install. This is what I want to do: I have two HDs (Hitachi and Raptor). I'm going to be using Windows for daily stuff and I want it alone on the larger (Hitachi) drive. I also want to partition the Raptor in 1/2 and install Ubuntu on one half and OS X on the other half. How can I do this so that I get a boot-loader when I start-up? I want to be able to choose my OS and I see FAQs here for multiple partitions of the same HD and for multiple HDs, but none for multiple HDs and multiple partitions. I'm thinking I want to use GPT (instead of MBR), but beyond that... I'm clueless. I'm doing a fresh install of everything using Vista Ultimate, Ubuntu 8.04 and iATKOS 4i (10.5.4), so if I need to install everything in a certain order... that's fine. Thank you in advance for your beautiful, beautiful help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Use Grub, here is my tutorial. It will recognize Vista and Ubuntu (obviously) automatically. You have to add OS X to boot menu. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752 The order you install is not really important. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-828420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin R. Johnson Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 If you're attempting to use GRUB2 and not the aforementioned GRUB Legacy: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry828196 If you need help understanding the mount point change notation between Grub and Grub2 just look at your /boot/grub/device.map and then note that any and all drives partition mount points index no longer starts at 0 but at 1. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-828594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacAllah Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 I'll try both of these methods this weekend. Thank you both, so much! (If anyone else has other methods, feel free to keep posting!) Thank you, again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-829457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I'll try both of these methods this weekend. Thank you both, so much! (If anyone else has other methods, feel free to keep posting!) Thank you, again. Try EasyBCD 1.7.2 in Vista.....hopefully it will work for you.....it does for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-829479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprjacob Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 If you are using any Windows OS, use GRUB Legacy, not GRUB2. GRUB2 does not have NTFS support, so you won't be able to boot Windows. I installed my system by installing Windows (Vista) first, then Kalyway OSX (10.5.2), then Ubuntu 8.04 (which has GRUB preinstalled). Then I edited my menu.lst for GRUB. Here is an easy OSX GRUB entry that I use: title Mac OSX Leopard root (hdx,x) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Replace the (hdx,x) with your partition that has Leopard on it. If you need help finding this, tell me. And make sure you GRUB's menu.lst in your Linux OS. I tried editing in Windows. Messed everything up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-829710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin R. Johnson Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 If you are using any Windows OS, use GRUB Legacy, not GRUB2. GRUB2 does not have NTFS support, so you won't be able to boot Windows. I installed my system by installing Windows (Vista) first, then Kalyway OSX (10.5.2), then Ubuntu 8.04 (which has GRUB preinstalled). Then I edited my menu.lst for GRUB. Here is an easy OSX GRUB entry that I use: title Mac OSX Leopard root (hdx,x) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Replace the (hdx,x) with your partition that has Leopard on it. If you need help finding this, tell me. And make sure you GRUB's menu.lst in your Linux OS. I tried editing in Windows. Messed everything up Incorrect on the NTFS Mod support for GRUB2. It's right there, but you don't use Chainloader and you use Multiboot which correctly loads the ntfs.mod. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-829899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprjacob Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 mmm... Last i checked there was no NTFS support at all. Google might be wrong though But I still wouldn't use GRUB2 anyways - it's still in alpha/beta stages and hasn't been released (unstable in some cases). GRUB Legacy will be more than sufficient for what we use it for and how much we actually see it (not that often). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-832079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin R. Johnson Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 I've been using GRUB2 for over a year. GRUB2 is standard in Debian Sid and if there is any unstable distribution that is far more stable than most distributions it is Debian. Grub2 has migrated to Debian Testing with the exception of the latest GRUB2 that now has the following options: Binaries : grub-efi : GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI version) grub-ieee1275 : GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Open Firmware version) grub-linuxbios : GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (LinuxBIOS version) grub-of : GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (some PowerPCs.. ?OpenFirmware?) grub-pc : GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) grub-rescue-pc : GRUB bootable rescue images, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) grub2 : GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package) Debian QA Page: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html From the Developer Mailing List: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-dev...7/msg00495.html It looks as if they are going to work on dealing with drive translations from hd1 to hex addresses : We need at least a simple fix for cross-drive installs. Perhaps we needa PC specific function to translate device names like hd1 into BIOS IDs like 0x81. This fix seems to me to address when multiboot into OS X that it can manage to translate the drive and assign the proper hex address without us having to explicitly typing it--the very thing the efi loader stages for us with boot_v8. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-832962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamezo Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I'm in a similar situation. I have a 200GB drive with a Vista partition taking it up completely, as well as a 250GB drive with 200GB NTFS storage partition (am considering converting to FAT32), 40GB blank FAT32 to use for other OSes, and 10GB HP recovery partition. It's a HP DV9700T, and I am planning to use Kalyway 10.5.2. I was planning to either dual boot Vista/OSX or triple boot Vista/OSX/Ubuntu. I am wondering whether throwing Ubuntu and GRUB into the mix will help to make it easier to locate OSX on the second hard drive. Otherwise, I can just split up the primary drive for another OSX partition. Thoughts would be appreciated! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-837505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I am wondering whether throwing Ubuntu and GRUB into the mix will help to make it easier to locate OSX on the second hard drive. Having Linux and OS X on the same HDD makes it very much easier to set up grub. Here is my tutorial. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116951-triple-boot-with-two-hard-drives-help/#findComment-838411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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