4 OS, Xp,Windows 7, Ubuntu and Mac OS X

[ostaryus1]

Hello everybody,

 

I was able to install 4 operation system on my HP DV2700. Here what did I do step by step;

I began the installation with 250gb one primary partition;

1. First of all I installed Windows XP

2. Second one I installed Ubuntu with option that "Install Inside Windows".

3. I repartition my hard drive with acronis disk director suite. Ihave 250gb hard drive. I partition 50 gb for MacOsX and make it primary, I partitioned another 50gb for windows 7 x64 as a logical partition. So the rest of the hard drive reserved for Windwos Xp. So my partition table has two primary and one logical partition.

4. I install Mac Os X with iPC 10.5.6 (It works perfectly except WiFi Intel 4965agn)

5. I boot into Windows Xp and make my xp partition as active and use "Chain" for able to boot Mac

6. So far on boot screen windows xp shows 3 options, WinXP, Ubuntu and Mac OS X.

7. Last one was Windows 7. I installed it into logical partition so that Mac partition did not corrupted. Now, I have four operating sytem on my computer.

 

I guess the key point is using Chain and provide second primary partition for MacOsX. Fist primary partiton disk0 and second one disk1 primary.

 

Sorry for my english. I hope this expalins the process clearly.

[durain]

Hi,

 

Can you please provide a more detail explanation on how to set this up. I am interested in booting multiple os as well.

 

Thank you.

[ostaryus1]

First of all I installed Windows Xp on the whole hard disk drive without partitioning it. After installing Xp, I installed Ubuntu into Windows Xp with the option "Install Inside Windows". In this installation Ubuntu did not partition hard drive and it is installed like a regular xp program. Also you can uninstall Ubuntu from Add/Remove Program from inside Xp. After installing Ubuntu, Xp boot screen shows two opeating systems 1. Windows Xp and 2. Ubuntu. After this step, I partition my one xp partition into three paritions by using Acronis Disk Director Suite. 50 gb as a primary partition and 50 gb as a logical partition. About paritioning, the order is very important. First partition should be reserves for Xp, Second partition should be set as primary partition, third partition should be logical partition. Acronis doing this easiliy. If the logical partiton is placed just after windows Xp Partition this multiple boot wil not work.

 

Summary of partitions;

 

1. Windows Xp , Primary, Active (NTFS)

2. MacOsX, Primary (FAT32)

3. Windows 7, Logical (NTFS)

 

After doing partitioning I can install MacOSX and Windows 7.

 

Install MacOSX into second partition (I installed it by using iPC 10.5.6), After installing Mac, Xp boot screen is replaced by darwin boot loader. Make sure that Mac is working properly. In Darwin Bootloader select Xp and boot into xp. Using acronis make Xp partition as active and restart computer. In this case darwin boot loader should be replaced by Xp bootloader and there are only two operating sytem should be listed Xp and Ubuntu. Select Xp and boot into Xp. Now, It is time to list MacOS into Xp boot loader. I used chain (you can find it in the attachment). Copy chain into xp partition in this case into C:\chain

And modify Xp boot loader. You can access boot loader by right click on my computer, advenced option start up option and modify boot.ini. Add the line c:\chain0="Mac OS X86" at the end of the lines in boot.ini file. If everything is correct, at the boot screen you should see Mac OS X on the list and successfully boot into MacOSX.

 

Finally Windows 7 can be installed. (I used RC1 x64 build 7100). Install windows 7 into logical partition. After installing Windows 7, Xp boot screen will be replaced by Windows 7 boot screen. And all 4 operating systems will be listed in this boot screen. Optionallyi You can costumize Windows 7 boot screen by using Easy BCD from inside of Windows 7.

 

I hope this is detailed enough:)