friendlyed Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hey everyone , I need some help with my triple boot. First will give you the specs of my pc mobo: msi p55-gd65 cpu: core i5 hds: 1 samsung 1tb f3 & 1 samsung 1tb f1 gfx: gtx 260 ram: 4gb ok i have been trying to get a triple boot system working with chameleon as the main boot loader. samsung f3 : windows 7 ultimate 600 gb and fedora 11 330gb (about 70gb is lost through all the partitioning) samsung f1: mac osX 1tb i seperated them so that they cant mess with each other because of the partitioning (gpt and ms dos partitioning tables). I installed osx on the f1 first , then 7 on the f3 . This worked fine and chameleon recognises 7, but when i tried to install fedora 11 . Chameleon recognises a linux boot but when i try to boot it there is just a flashing "_" coming up. BTW chameleon will be on the f1 just to be clear. The grub boot loader i installed into the "first boot sector" not the mbr of the f3. I think the partitioning of fedora is confusing chameleon but thats just a theory partition of f3: windows 7 ntfs (600gb) /boot 200mb ext3 logical volume 330 gb which holds : / 325gb ext4 5 gb swap Fedora 11 needs the boot outside of the logical volume because it cannot boot from a ext4 formatted drive . I have tried various partition set ups but nothing seems to work, including putting the grub boot loader on the mbr (f3) which showed windows and linux but not osx and chameleon still didnt like linux . It has taken me a while just to get this far since p55 mobos havent been out for that long, and this is my first hackintosh and triple boot build. So . . i dont really want to spend much more time doing this . If anyone can give me some help, about partitioning fedora 11 , or doing something with grub to fix this , or anything else that can help, that would be great Thanks Ed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205240-p55-triple-boot-snow-leopardwindows-7-ultimatefedora-11-problem-with-fedora/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
friendlyed Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 can any1 help ? any suggestions ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205240-p55-triple-boot-snow-leopardwindows-7-ultimatefedora-11-problem-with-fedora/#findComment-1377418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
friendlyed Posted January 18, 2010 Author Share Posted January 18, 2010 figured it out in the end. The automatic partitioning for fedora 11 was fine. There was an option in the fedora 11 install which i kept setting wrong. I though i wanted to boot fedora from the the drive it was on. What i really needed to do was set this to where chameleon was booting. Chameleon automatically found the partition, booted, and it works fine !. BTW just if anyone wants to know, i set the bootloader to install on the first sector thing on the drive where fedora was. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205240-p55-triple-boot-snow-leopardwindows-7-ultimatefedora-11-problem-with-fedora/#findComment-1388764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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