MacOS, Ubuntu, WinXP - Can't achieve triple booting

[fesja]

Hi guys,

 

After many tries, yesterday I achieved to install MacOS on my PC. And it worked fine, perfect. But after turning off, I can't enter into Mac and I've already tried many ways (grub, chain0) but they don't seem to work, so i think it could be a problem of partitions. This is my partition table:

 

Disco /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 24321 cilindros
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disposit. Inicio	Comienzo	  Fin	  Bloques  Id  Sistema
/dev/hda1			   1		  38	  305203+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2			  39		6374	50893920	5  Extendida
/dev/hda3   *		6375	   14023	61440592+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5			  39		5099	40652451   83  Linux
/dev/hda6   *		5100		6374	10241406   af  Desconocido

 

And part of my menu.lst from the grub is:

 

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-20-386
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-386 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-20-386
savedefault
boot

# Mac OS X86
title		Mac OS X86
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader /chain0

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda3
title		Windows XP
root		(hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

 

I've received many errors testing different solutions: "Cannot mount partition", "Partition type not known (or something like that)".

 

I've read in some posts that some people have changed the partitions but i have fear because i dont want to delete the linux partition.

 

I'd be very very grateful if anybody could help me and tell me what can I try.

 

thanks a lot

 

javier

[ljsoares]

Hi guys,

 

After many tries, yesterday I achieved to install MacOS on my PC. And it worked fine, perfect. But after turning off, I can't enter into Mac and I've already tried many ways (grub, chain0) but they don't seem to work, so i think it could be a problem of partitions. This is my partition table:

 

Disco /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 24321 cilindros
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disposit. Inicio	Comienzo	  Fin	  Bloques  Id  Sistema
/dev/hda1			   1		  38	  305203+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2			  39		6374	50893920	5  Extendida
/dev/hda3   *		6375	   14023	61440592+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5			  39		5099	40652451   83  Linux
/dev/hda6   *		5100		6374	10241406   af  Desconocido

 

And part of my menu.lst from the grub is:

 

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-20-386
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-386 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-20-386
savedefault
boot

# Mac OS X86
title		Mac OS X86
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader /chain0

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda3
title		Windows XP
root		(hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

 

I've received many errors testing different solutions: "Cannot mount partition", "Partition type not known (or something like that)".

 

I've read in some posts that some people have changed the partitions but i have fear because i dont want to delete the linux partition.

 

I'd be very very grateful if anybody could help me and tell me what can I try.

 

thanks a lot

 

javier

 

After looking througt your HD partition table, I some advice on HD partitions.

 

If you are going to Install XP, Mac OS and Linux. Your partitions should be like this

 

1st: Windows Partition (primary) 10.7GB

2nd: Mac OS (primary) 10.7GB

3rd: Linux (primary) 9.7GB

4th: Swap (logical) 1GB

5th: FAT32 (logical) 67.7GB partition to be accessed by all systems this is in cause you do have available space.

 

 

Above is my partition table on my Toshiba Satellite M100.

 

I had the same problem but I found the fix for it. first edit your Grug MENU and remove "makeactive" and "savedefault " from the menu entries to MACOS and WINDOWS XP.

 

example:

 

# Mac OS X Entry

title Windows XP

root (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

 

# Mac OS X Entry

title MacOSX

root (hd0,1)

chainloader +1

 

ATTENTION: these menu entries are based on my partition.

 

please pay attention to the root settings, these have to be set acording to the partitions that the systems are installed on.

 

Next step is to boot from the Mac OS X Install Disc, when you get to the Installation poing open "Terminal" and execute this

 

 

sudo bless -mount /Volumes/MacDisk -setBoot

 

Attention, "MacDisk" replace it with the currect name of your OSX installation Partition. Cancle installation and try to boot your OS systems.

 

The reason why you kept loosing your MAC Boot was because of the options "makeactive" and savedefault" on the WIN XP entry of the Grub Menu.

 

I hope this work for you it worked for me.