SLV Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hi everyone. Hope you'll understand what I want . So. I have 3 HDD. One - for Windows Vista or Windows 7 and Local disk D:, second HDD - Gentoo Linux and its /home and the last one is for my experiments with MacOSX Leopard - in fact has 3 partitions - 1Gb - Fat32 for syslinux etc, 20 - For Mac_Root and the rest - for data. Now the quesion. If Vista or Windows 7 and MacOS are already installed, how can I setup Grub on the second HDD to see Windows and MacOS? (For windows I know what to write to the menu.lst, but I don't know what to write for MacOS) And if someone knows manual setup of grub, please tell me what to do by steps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzanova Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 for windows on a different hardrive than grub title WINDOWS rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) makeactive chainloader +1 for osx on the same hardrive as grub title OSX rootnoverify (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 unfortunately i have never gotten grub to boot osx then its on a different hhd, even with the mapping entry in the menu.lst, i usually just switch the hdd order in the bios, with the hdd which has osx installed booting 1st Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/#findComment-1030375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLV Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Thanks a lot, but should i disconnect windows and macos Hdds when installing grub or there will be wrong partitions written to config? And there's (i hope) the last moment that i still don't understrand: map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) How will it look like if my linux hdd is recognized as (hd1,0) and windows is (hd0,0)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/#findComment-1030505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzanova Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Thanks a lot, but should i disconnect windows and macos Hdds when installing grub or there will be wrong partitions written to config? Yes that would be a good idea, less confusion And there's (i hope) the last moment that i still don't understrand: map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) How will it look like if my linux hdd is recognized as (hd1,0) and windows is (hd0,0)? maybe title WINDOWS rootnoverify (hd0,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) makeactive chainloader +1 but i usually have grub on the 1st hhd (hd0,0) with the linux install usually on there as well, so you may have try different settings until you find one that works for you the easiest way and since you have linux and windows on different hdd would be to change the boot order in the bios and maybe install osx on a different hdd so each OS has its own hdd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/#findComment-1031369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wernerb Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I'm assuming you got vista to work with gentoo using grub? After the osx install just install grub again and in the livecd or whatever you use to reinstall grub download PC efi v9 or PCEFI. Download the file called 'boot' in the archive to /boot (it's a single file called boot.) Then simply add an entry to menu.lst for Mac OSX Leopard and under it add '(hd0,x)/boot/boot' Where x is is where your ubuntu is installed. You can get the number by doing 'find /boot/grub/stage1' in grub And your done! Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/#findComment-1031402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLV Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 and maybe install osx on a different Well, they all have their own HDDs. gazzanova Hmm, I got windows boot even without these maps. About grub. Its installation is my main problem, because for now i can make linux boot only by setting rootnoverify in menu.lst. And any my attempts to reinstall it finish with the same result. Grub can't recognize my ext3 FS. And complete reinstall of gentoo doesn't seem the rightest way for repairing loader And a question about leopard. How did you all get it booting without FlashDrive? I created a FAT32 partition at the beginning of leopard's HDD: erased its 200mb EFI Boot Drive (from Ubuntu LiveCD, using Gparted), made a 1GB partition for booting (using windows partition manager), used syslinux and copied needed files. And still can't boot without FlashDrive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/#findComment-1031842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverZero Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I'd try to dig up all the info you can by user "wmarsh" on these boards - he (she?) has a good grasp on booting PC EFI from GRUB. I've used his guides to get my iDeneb 10.5.5 booting on my 2nd hard drive from GRUB on my 1st hard drive (and XP and Linux as well). I'm still working on understanding how it all works so I can write my own guide, but wmarsh helped me the most on this topic. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145203-vista-windows7-gentoo-linux-macosx-1056-retail-grub/#findComment-1039810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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