Successful Quad-Boot

[Rhodizzle]

Hey all, I just wanted to come in and deliver a report and do a bit of bragging. I just got a Dell Precision M6400 for work and I've successfully got it quad-booting. It's currently running Vista Business x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Beta Build 7000, OSX86 10.5.6 and Ubuntu 8.10 x64.

 

The partitioning layout is thus:

 

100GB Primary NTFS (Vista)

 

50GB Primary NTFS (Windows 7)

 

50GB Primary HFS+ (OSX86)

 

Extended Primary

 

512MB Logical EXT2 (boot)

 

50GB Logical ReiserFS (root)

 

40.5GB Logical Fat32 (shared drive between all OS')

 

I've got the Debian package for GFX-GRUB 64 bit running and all operating systems successfully boot. They were installed in their order of appearance. I've got to say that using the GParted live CD was of utmost value in doing this, as I could swap the boot partition to whatever partition I was loading to ensure I didn't have any crazy boot sector problems. GRUB is using boot_v9 to boot OSX86. Both Vista and Windows 7 are simply chainloaded from GRUB.

 

Vista, Windows 7, and Ubuntu run flawlessly, I still have quite a few hardware related issues on OSX86 but I can get to a desktop and surf the net from it so far, that's for another topic though.

[Nick7]

Well, got here 5 boot options on startup:

Windows Vista x64

Windows 7

Windows XP

MacOS

Linux (Ubuntu)

 

... used EasyBCD to set it up, thus using Vista bootloader.

Only thing that makes things much easier is using, as you also said, GParted to set up partitions and mark active one you are installing. In the end, marked Vista as active, fixed all others via EasyBCD... and voila

[kppk]

Use BootIT NG

 

It has a nice Gui. Make a 15 MB Fat12 or 16 partition to install BootIT NG into that partition.

 

BootIT NG must be on the first HD