undadawg316 Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Hello all, thank you for taking the time to read my post. My machine currently is successfully dual booting windows 7 and snow leopard. I used this guide to set it up. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208724 Windows 7 is installed on a 1TB hard drive(i want to install ubuntu here) and Mac OSX is installed on a 640GB Hard drive. I attempted to install ubuntu from a liveCD and created a 300GB partition for ubuntu using the installer. The setup ran succesfully but when I rebooted, ubuntu didn't show up in chameleon (only Windows and Mac are showing up). I read around and found out i needed to install ubuntu with the 'GRUB' bootloader in the ubuntu partition. So i tried this aswell but ubuntu still isnt showing up in the chameleon bootloader. When i go to the chameleon preference menu in OS X, There is an untitled disk that chameleon recognizes to have a linux file system but even if i set it to my primary boot hard drive nothing happens during boot. Please help me ! cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charred Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 try easyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undadawg316 Posted April 30, 2010 Author Share Posted April 30, 2010 try easyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 will easyBCD get chameleon to recognize it? i want to be able to access all three OS's from one bootloader if possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasch007 Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 will easyBCD get chameleon to recognize it? i want to be able to access all three OS's from one bootloader if possible I'm not familiar with Chameleon I dunno if I have it or what it does all I can tell you is on my distro I get the Darwin boot menu when I choose Mac. Anyway I've had decent success with EasyBCD 1.7.2 and 2.0 beta. I used it to create a boot entry in windows 7 bootloader for my Fedora 12 installation. Being that it's on a Linux filesystem I assume it will work the same with your Ubuntu. When I installed Fedora I had to make sure to install the bootloader not the the MBR but to the actual partition... it's one of the last steps, I forgot to do it the first time and I couldn't figure out why my Fedora would not boot. It was overwritten in the MBR when I installed the next OS... D'oh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateGuy Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 ok bro , the most important step in triple booting windows , SL and any linux distro is to install the GRUB bootloader in same linux parititon , ok. when you get this step click on advanced and choose the ubuntu ext3 or ext4 parition after complete the installtion you will get linux option in chameleon . i hope its usefull , and sorry for bad english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyCarlos Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I have a triple boot functioning on my Asus netbook. First, I partitioned my disk using GUID with three partitions, the first and third being formatted as FAT for now, and the middle being HFS+ for Snow Leopard. I installed Snow Leopard first. I then installed Windows 7 to the same drive, on the first FAT partition. (It had to be erased). Windows is fine installing on GUID here, I'm not exactly sure why but it might have to do with the patches for SL needed to put it on a netbook. When Windows installs, you can install Ubuntu. The most important step is changing the bootloader's location to the Ubuntu operating system partition, /dev/sda4 if you followed this guide. When Ubuntu finishes, nothing should boot. I then reinstalled Chameleon to the Snow Leopard partition. Windows is still broken. Boot into a recovery disk and enter the command prompt. diskpart list disk select disk 0 (or whichever is the hard drive you're triple booting from) list partition select partition X (whichever partition is the Windows partition) active exit Now run startup repair and if anything is wrong it'll fix it. Windows is now booting. Once in the environment, enter the command prompt once more. Use the same commands as above, but select the Snow Leopard partition and make it active. Upon reboot, all three OSes functioned for me. Ubuntu boots into GRUB by default; when I have the time I'll edit the settings so the timeout is 1 second or so. If you want to pursue this method of triple booting but found parts of this vague, I'll help as much as I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I have a triple boot functioning on my Asus netbook. First, I partitioned my disk using GUID with three partitions, the first and third being formatted as FAT for now, and the middle being HFS+ for Snow Leopard. I installed Snow Leopard first. I then installed Windows 7 to the same drive, on the first FAT partition. (It had to be erased). Windows is fine installing on GUID here, I'm not exactly sure why but it might have to do with the patches for SL needed to put it on a netbook. Windows installed because you're not using a "straight" GUID Partition Table (GPT) setup; you're using a hybrid MBR setup. Apple's Disk Utility turns GPT into a hybrid MBR whenever you use it to create a FAT partition. This helps with situations like yours (or using Boot Camp to install Windows on a real Macintosh), but hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous. You should definitely be aware of what you're using so that you can avoid doing dangerous things with it, such as editing your partition table with GPT-unaware MBR tools or hybrid-unaware GPT tools. FWIW, both OS X and Linux use the GPT side of a hybrid MBR disk, whereas Windows uses the MBR side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilol18 Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 my question around this topic is about the windows7 activation. everything goes normal (dualbooting in my case) snowleopard and windows 7. but when i use some activator to make my win7 genuine, it breaks my the boot of win7 and SL. any idea of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyCarlos Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 my question around this topic is about the windows7 activation. everything goes normal (dualbooting in my case) snowleopard and windows 7. but when i use some activator to make my win7 genuine, it breaks my the boot of win7 and SL. any idea of that? How specifically does it break the boot? If only Windows boots, you should reassign the Chameleon partition as active. If Windows is broken, (boot error immediately), fix it with the install/recovery disk, then set Chameleon as active. If you just have a flashing underscore, I recommend just redoing it and not using the method of activation that you used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilol18 Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 How specifically does it break the boot? If only Windows boots, you should reassign the Chameleon partition as active. If Windows is broken, (boot error immediately), fix it with the install/recovery disk, then set Chameleon as active. If you just have a flashing underscore, I recommend just redoing it and not using the method of activation that you used. yeah. i got an underscore blinking anytime i try... gotta test another activator/loader so? which one did you use?? thanks man.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyCarlos Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 yeah. i got an underscore blinking anytime i try... gotta test another activator/loader so? which one did you use?? thanks man.. I know you know that activators aren't entirely legal; take your search elsewhere. In the meantime I suggest reinstalling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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