Da_MerV Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I've searched all over with no avail. I was attempting to triple boot Leopard, XP, and Ubuntu. I started by reformatting my 60 GB HDD with the tool in the OSX installer. I made 3 equal sized partitions, Leopard (journal extended), WIN (fat32 but i was going to reformat to NTFS with the xp installer), and free space (which i would format to ext3 with ubuntu). I installed using Leo4All and tried several times to get my resolution supported (1920x1200) but it would only show up as 1024x768. I have a Geforce 6600 Go, a Intel Pentium M @ 1.83 GHz, Intel 915 chipset, and 2 GB ram. I finally gave up as no one could get my high resolution supported. So I went to reinstall ubuntu (my previous configuration was 2 partitions with Vista and Ubuntu, so I know both work) and it loaded up normally as a livedisk until it got to the opening screen. I could hear the Ubuntu startup sound but the screen was black with strange lines in a checkerboard like pattern. I'll try to take a picture if I can find my camera. Has leopard damaged my chipset or graphics card? Or did it modify the firmware? How can I fix this? I want to get rid of this Leopard but I don't know how to fix my display. At least it displays a picture in Leopard. But I don't want leopard anymore, I want to go back to XP and Ubuntu. I don't know much about firmware, but if that is whats causing the problem, how do I revert the firmware? Please help, I'm desperate, I need my $2200 laptop back. EDIT: I didn't realize, but I haven't yet tried to install XP before installing Ubuntu. I am now attempting to install XP. So far, I have erased the Leopard partition and have begun to install XP. Hopefully, it will display properly and restore my ability to display properly on other OSes. UPDATE1: XP seems to be installing properly. Will XP fix the laptop so Ubuntu can run too? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121069-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_MerV Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 So no one has any ideas? Well XP installed properly, Ubuntu 8.04 still had problems so I used an older disk and it worked (mostly). But why can't I have Leopard and Ubuntu? And why won't Ubuntu work with the latest updates? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121069-please-help/#findComment-858828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_MerV Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 I finally got everything sorted out, triple booting XP, Leopard, and Ubuntu. The only pressing issues now are the wifi and graphics card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121069-please-help/#findComment-862411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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