Triple Boot Sequencing vote

[waldoer]

Lots of great tutorials here, but I can't decide which I should use on my big new empty harddisk. Have posted this poll to help me decide.

[waldoer]

FWIW: I decided to use this install sequence: Leopard, XP, Win7

• Leopard to partition 3 - first
  
• WinXP to partition 2
  
• Win7 to partition 1 - last
  

EasyBCD Beta was used to add the other OSs on the Win7 bootloader menu.

 

Ubuntu 9 is on a second internal disk since EasyBCD Beta hangs when trying to add Linux to Windows bootloader. Currently using the BIOS to flip boot between Disk 2 (Win7 XP Leopard) and Disk 1 (Ubuntu 9). Shall add the Win7 boot option to Grub tomorrow.

 

If I had to do it all again on one disk, I would probably choose: Leopard (part. 3), Windows (p2), Linux (p1) using Grub for the main bootloader.

[vilpostus]

As my experience shows in case of dual booting (WinXP Linux) Windows must be installed first cos' it must be on the first partition of the disk.

In triple boot system accordingly the sequence could be as follows: Windows > Linux > Leo or Windows > Leo > Linux. The choice is mostly predicted by the boot loader one would use. If it's Grub then Win>Linux>MacOSX or Win>MacOSX>Linux. If it's anything else (eg. Chameleon or Boot123) then I guess sequence could be any.

[waldoer]

As my experience shows in case of dual booting (WinXP Linux) Windows must be installed first cos' it must be on the first partition of the disk.

 

Right enough, Windows needing partition 1 had slipped my mind in my last sentence. Thanks for that.

 

Anyways, I replaced the Vista entry in Grub's menu.lst to get it work with the Win7 bootloader. Now everything boots nicely without the need to touch the BIOS.

 

In the end, I used a two disk solution rather than a single. But I'm happy with that.