amp_man Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm trying to do a quad boot, with Dell Mediadirect (XP embedded), Vista, Ubuntu, and iDeneb 10.5.5. Because of hard drive limitations, OSX is on an extended partition. Currently it boots and works fine if I pop the DVD in, and let the timer run out. I've tried chainloading, it didn't work. I tried the /etc/chain0, but chain0 doesn't exist. Is there any way I can find out the kernel options, and put my grub entry in as "kernel /mach_kernel [options]", like a normal *nix kernel? Here's a look at some of what's on my OSX partition, thanks! amp@Mobulus:/media/OSX86$ ls AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin cores Network AppleIntelGMA950GLDriver.bundle dev private AppleIntelGMA950.kext etc sbin AppleIntelGMA950VADriver.bundle FireWire_Backup System AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext home tmp AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext Library Users Applications mach_kernel usr bin mach_kernel.ctfsys var boot net Volumes amp@Mobulus:/media/OSX86$ ls etc/ 6to4.conf irbrc podcastproducer afpovertcp.cfg kern_loader.conf postfix aliases krb5.keytab ppp aliases.db localtime profile amavisd.conf locate.rc protocols apache2 mach_init.d racoon asl.conf mach_init_per_login_session.d rc.common authorization mach_init_per_user.d rc.netboot autofs.conf mail.rc resolv.conf auto_home man.conf rmtab auto_master manpaths rpc bashrc manpaths.d rtadvd.conf csh.cshrc master.passwd services csh.login memberd.conf shells csh.logout moduli smb.conf cups named.conf smb.conf.old defaults nanorc smb.conf.template dnsextd.conf networks snmp efax.rc newsyslog.conf ssh_config find.codes notify.conf sshd_config fstab.hd openldap sudoers ftpusers pam.d syslog.conf gettytab passwd ttys group paths xgrid hostconfig paths.d xtab hosts periodic zprofile hosts.equiv php.ini.default Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129246-quad-boot-on-single-drive-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
reeve Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 hey - i'm also having major grub/osx boot issues. from what i've heard, though, osx isn't supposed to be on an extended partition? When booting from grub, have you made sure that OSX is Active? What is your grub boot entry, and what is the output of diskutil or fdisk -l? Have you tried netkas's pci_efi boot_v8 or chameleon bootloader? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129246-quad-boot-on-single-drive-issues/#findComment-916029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amp_man Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 I got boot_v8 working last night, but that's an ugly solution, I have to press a key during the second wait and select the OSX partition. It does work though, but I'd like a cleaner solution Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129246-quad-boot-on-single-drive-issues/#findComment-916272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
reeve Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 boot_v8 lets you choose which partition to boot from? you talking about the 0x80 0x81 etc? because if it does let you choose partitions, i would love you forever Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129246-quad-boot-on-single-drive-issues/#findComment-916291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amp_man Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 Yeah, at least the version I have does. 0x8* is the hard drive, but if you wait through the first timer to the second one and press a key, it should give you an option of what partition to boot to, and also allow you to pass kernel parameters Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129246-quad-boot-on-single-drive-issues/#findComment-916815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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