beavervalleymall Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 I haven't been able to find anything really clear on how to get all three to co-operate. I currently have XP installed, with 130 GB of free space after it. Any guidelines I should follow? I have an nVidia chipset. Is Kalyway 10.5.2 the best tool I should use for installlation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBuntu Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 I haven't been able to find anything really clear on how to get all three to co-operate. I currently have XP installed, with 130 GB of free space after it. Any guidelines I should follow? I have an nVidia chipset. Is Kalyway 10.5.2 the best tool I should use for installlation? I had this configuration working successfully. Install Ubuntu next. During installation configure the partitions manually and make one ext3 and one swap for Linux and leave some space for the OS X install. Leave the current XP partition intact. Ubuntu will install grub and detect the Windows partition and let you choose which one you want to boot. Install Kalyway next on the free partition. Make sure to use the disk utility to format the partition to HFS+ Journaled first. You will need to edit the menu.list for grub to add Kalyway to the boot menu. It's under /boot/grub/menu.list I think. Just look at the Windows XP entry and copy and paste it. Change the partition number accordingly. Ask me if you have problems. Oh, choose nForce kernel during OS X installation. Vanilla kernel will not work with nForce boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavervalleymall Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 I have installed Kalyway and now I can't seem to boot from it. I have set up grub the way mentioned above and when I select OS X I get the 'press F8 for advanced startup options' message and then it seems to look at the CD drive quickly, then reboots. Any advice? My entry for OS X in grub is: # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title Mac OS X Leopard root (hd0,2) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 EDIT: After researching I have found that others are having the same problem. I get a couple quick messages, one about EFI enhanced bootloader, one about SMBIOS table, the last about ACPI, then a quick reboot. I have tried to enable execute bit. I could not find option to disable speedstep, also could not find acpi2 to enable. I tried other kernels. Of them, sleepkernel, speedstepkernel, and modbinkernel got the gray loading screen to show up, hard drive was active for about 15 seconds, then nothing. I have an nForce board but the nforcekernel does nothing. I have a Pentium D cpu. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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