Stephen Hart Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I have a computer that has all three on it. the problem right now is that I cannot afford to lose my windows or OSX install and I can't get GRUB2 to boot OSX properly. I have been using a USB boot disk to boot OSX and it works but I would like a more permanant solution. What methods are there for setting up a boot menu for all three besides GRUB? I have googled this and have not understood the information I found and so I am not sure where to start. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
peabrain Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I have a computer that has all three on it. the problem right now is that I cannot afford to lose my windows or OSX install and I can't get GRUB2 to boot OSX properly. I have been using a USB boot disk to boot OSX and it works but I would like a more permanant solution. What methods are there for setting up a boot menu for all three besides GRUB? I have googled this and have not understood the information I found and so I am not sure where to start. Any help would be appreciated. try installing the chameleon bootloader this was part of the tutorial i followed on getting 10.6.4 on a eee pc 1000h, posted on this forum Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingViper Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 try installing the chameleon bootloader this was part of the tutorial i followed on getting 10.6.4 on a eee pc 1000h, posted on this forum Agreed. What motherboard do you have? If you use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] it will auto install Chameleon for you. The only issue you may run into is if you install Grub into your MBR or onto the Linux partition. (I assume you're using an MBR partition scheme since you have all 3 OS's on 1 disk?) Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enochpc Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I have a machine with the same situation. I had all three OS's booting from Chameleon, but every time Ubuntu updates grub2 it would wipe out chameleon. I currently have a somewhat messy setup that has grub2 as the boot loader, which boots everything but OSX. I then have EasyBCD installed on the Windows partition, that boots everything, including OSX. Chameleon is installed on the OSX partition. When you install EasyBCD, it will automatically setup a Mac selection for the boot loader, but it won't work. If you set up your own it will, not sure why, but that's what I found. It's a messy setup, but at least Ubuntu updates don't kill my installs anymore. I'm willing to except the extra step at boot time to avoid the headaches that fixing chameleon caused. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeFriend Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 It is very tricky to do a three way multiboot with Windows 7 on one harddrive. If you can, install Windows 7 on another harddrive that has an MBR partition table. It will make your life a lot easier. When you install Chameleon or Grub into your harddrive's MBR, Windows will stop booting. I suggest that you install Chameleon on your MBR. Follow the steps in this guide to get Windows 7 booting again: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=165878 Then install Linux in its own partition. Make sure you use an ext4 filesystem and you install GRUB into the Linux partition, not the MBR. For example, /dev/sda4 and not /dev/sda. TF Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emitflesti Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Definitely place Win7 on a different hard drive, unless you're really familiar with Grub and its partition swapping capabilities. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hart Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Definitely place Win7 on a different hard drive, unless you're really familiar with Grub and its partition swapping capabilities. Windows is on a separate drive, i have the only option of putting linux snd osx on one drive with separate partitions. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hart Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Agreed. What motherboard do you have? If you use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] it will auto install Chameleon for you. The only issue you may run into is if you install Grub into your MBR or onto the Linux partition. (I assume you're using an MBR partition scheme since you have all 3 OS's on 1 disk?) yeah, i'm trying to remove GRUB right now, I can independently boot each OS as long as I use the BIOS boot menu or a third party boot manager. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1624992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingViper Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Windows is on a separate drive, i have the only option of putting linux snd osx on one drive with separate partitions. I'm running Windows7, Ubuntu, and OSX on 1 drive and it works fine. The key is to perform the OSInstall MBR mod located at this link. http://osx86.sojugarden.com/downloads/ Replace the files on your install disk with the ones from that site. This will allow OSX to install onto an MBR partitioned drive. They key to getting this working though, is to install Windows7 on the drive FIRST. It will install like normal, and boot properly. Then install Ubuntu and do what TreeFriend mentioned. Use EXT4 and install the grub to the partition you're installin Ubuntu to. After that, install OSX. After your install and once you're at the desktop, use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to install either your custom DSDT or a predefined one. This will also install Chameleon. Your computer should now boot to the Chameleon boot loader and show all 3 operating systems. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1625035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hart Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 does the myHack Installation Package support AMD processors? the included Chocolate Kernel does not appear to. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243768-multi-boot/#findComment-1625320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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