saul1d Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 to start off, i usually have windows 7(or vista) with osx and ubuntu all booting from chameleon. well i recently i installed xp over ubuntu since i dont use ubuntu very often, and i have set everything up right now so that osx is the main partition and chameleon will boot into leopard or windows 7, but not xp... i looked all over for solutions and what not, but the only thing ive read is that i'd have to use windows 7 bootloader to select between 7 and xp.. so im wondering, is there any third party bootloader that i can install to the xp partition so that when i select it from chameleon, it will boot xp directly? then that would work just like installing the grub bootloader to the linux partition. OR is there someway to activate the xp bootloader but just for the xp partition? any help would be great thankss Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193724-triple-boot-7xposx-with-chameleon/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 You mentioned one possible solution yourself: GRUB. If necessary, you could set aside a small partition for GRUB and install it from a Linux emergency disk. You can then use GRUB's partition-hiding/unhiding and/or drive-remapping features to help get the partitions looking like something that your different versions of Windows will like. GRUB Legacy will install fine on FAT, so you could edit the configuration from Windows or OS X once it's set up. GRUB2 will also install fine on HFS+, so in theory you could install it on your OS X partition, although I've never tried that. (I do have one system with GRUB2 installed on a Linux /boot partition that's formatted HFS+ -- that's a very weird configuration, but I wanted the option of editing the GRUB2 configuration from OS X.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193724-triple-boot-7xposx-with-chameleon/#findComment-1308425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
saul1d Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 so that would be making a seperate partition that would boot to xp.. so from startup i would see chameleon, select the grub partition, and then from there i could boot into xp? can grub be installed directly to the xp partition? sorry, im not too familiar with grub, or bootloaders in general for that matter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193724-triple-boot-7xposx-with-chameleon/#findComment-1308446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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