Help with muti-booting.

[seangibbz]

Currently have:

MBR Partition Table

285.98GB NTFS (Windows, already installed)

12.11GB NTFS (RECOVERY partition)

 

Wanna Get:

100GB HFS+ (Snow Leopard)

175GB NTFS (Windows)

12GB Ext4 (Ubuntu)

11GB NTFS (RECOVERY)

Chameleon 2 RC4 BootLoader

 

How could I do this? Would I need to change to GPT? Will the RECOVERY pose any problems? Would I be able to use a retail DVD of Snow Leopard (Boot-132 method of loading)? How do I install chameleon? Do I need a swap partition (I don't even know what that is)? Is what I want to acheive even possible? Would it be possible to keep my Windows partition (just shrink it)[i could also back it up to an image and restore it after table reformatting]?

Any help would be appreciated

 

My System Specifications (HP)

 

I'm not quite sure how to do this because as far as I know:

Windows needs MBR

Snow Leopard needs GPT

Windows and OS X need to be primary

There should be an EFI partition

There should be a partition for chameleon

The 'RECOVERY' takes up a partition

There are only 4 primary partitions in a MBR table

 

I don't quite know how Ubuntu fits in to all of this. I beleive it can be booted from a extended partition. I heard about a MBR-GPT hybrid table, although I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.

[hardknoxni69a]

hey it is very possible i run win7-snow leo- leo(10.5.7)- linux. is ur osx already install? just read again by the looks of it u dont if i was u u should follow my guide on here about how to install snow(GUIDE).u will need leo first then snow leo u can add linux/ubuntu at anytime u like but yes go to start menu>run>diskmgmt.msc in windows shrink ur windows partition down to size u would like.>install leo from wtvr distro u choosei like iakos v7 but neways after u have leo installled from there u can start going thru my guide as long as u already have snow leo.dmg downloaded(10a432). ok on the guide there is a link to download necessary files need on tekmodz.webs.com we have the files as well and a .DMG that contains all chameleon versions. ok after u have snow installed with chameleon and everything ur gonna go to select windows during boot and its not gonna work (darn) well no biggy grab ur windows installation cd and go to repair section and reinstall ur bootloader the repair section might not show ur windows partition if that happens go to the command prompt part of the repair tools go into diskpart command is diskpart select the windows disk then partition make the windows partition active once its marked as active start the repair tools again and now will show ur windows install choose start up repair will fix bootmgr so now u can boot into windows yay but what about snow? when ur computer restarts will go strait to windows what about snow well u can go to that site tekmodz.webs.com and download EasyBCD for windows and when u run that program on windows go to add entries choose mac osx leave default settings but change to boot from mbr or whatever it says then save now when u restart voila will show 2 entries either boot into windows or into osx which will show the chameleon gui where u can choose from ur partitions what os u want to boot into ull be all set k now sum fun with linux boot ur linux live cd or whatver-- by the way u should think ahead of all this and figure what size partition u want for everything and before u even install leo use diskmgmt from windows and size up what u want all ur stuff to be dont format anything just create the partitions that way u can choose what partitions u want to use later on-- anyways at the end of your linux settings right before install change it so grub gets installed to the partition not the entire disk once thats installled u can boot into linux thru chameleon or go to windows and similar to when u chose osx go to the linux part and choose what partition u installed grub onto and save settings that way when u restart u can choose either osx or linux or windows thru the windows boot mgr or u can go into linux and add the boot flag to wtvr ur chameleon partition that way chameleon will be ur boot mgr instead of windows well good luck sry i did this kinda quick tried to add details any questions u can PM me or IM me best way is thru my tekmodz site good luck and let me know how it goes

[seangibbz]

I made a possible plan of what I may do for this installation. Feedback would be much appreciated.

http://pastebin.ca/1732553