Bootloader

[Adro947]

Hello.

 

I recently installed OS X Leopard on my laptop. It works great. I love it. But I just have one problem. I cannot get a bootloader that'll boot Vista, OS X and Linux from the same bootloader in one step.

 

The setup befpre I installed OS X was great - I used easyBCD and Vista auto-booted after five seconds. If I wanted to boot Linux I could just scroll down. This would open GRUB. Now however, it's not as simple as that. I'm using the Xiezhy bootloader. It can boot Vista (Restored the original bootloader after installing OS X) but not Linux. In addition, it cannot use a timed auto-boot. So If I could set up Xiezhy to auto-boot OS X, can I make the Windows bootloader point to that? Maybe some kind of GRUB entry to point to the Mac partition made from easyBCD?

 

Thanks!

[Redspike]

Personally I use grub2 as my boot manager, the newest version will directly boot into osx although without the fancy options of chameleon etc. However you can add an osx bootloader to the grub menu if you so wish.

And from the grub menu I can boot directly into any of linux, osx or windows 7.

There are a few guides on setting up grub to work with bootloaders, if you have any trouble though I'll boot into my linux and try to write a step by step based on what I did.

[FAQBoy]

<br />Hello.<br /><br />I recently installed OS X Leopard on my laptop. It works great. I love it. But I just have one problem. I cannot get a bootloader that'll boot Vista, OS X and Linux from the same bootloader in one step.<br /><br />The setup befpre I installed OS X was great - I used easyBCD and Vista auto-booted after five seconds. If I wanted to boot Linux I could just scroll down. This would open GRUB. Now however, it's not as simple as that. I'm using the Xiezhy bootloader. It can boot Vista (Restored the original bootloader after installing OS X) but not Linux. In addition, it cannot use a timed auto-boot. So If I could set up Xiezhy to auto-boot OS X, can I make the Windows bootloader point to that? Maybe some kind of GRUB entry to point to the Mac partition made from easyBCD?<br /><br />Thanks!<br />

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You can use grub to multiboot chameleon from your macOS partition.

 

insmod part_gpt

insmod hfsplus

set root='(hd0,gpt2)'

multiboot /Extra/Chameleon/i386/boot

 

Your root and boot file paths may differ.

 

Then just set grub to boot linux and vista like normal.

 

Hope that helps.

[dake22]

Hello.

 

I recently installed OS X Leopard on my laptop. It works great. I love it. But I just have one problem. I cannot get a bootloader that'll boot Vista, OS X and Linux from the same bootloader in one step.

 

The setup befpre I installed OS X was great - I used easyBCD and Vista auto-booted after five seconds. If I wanted to boot Linux I could just scroll down. This would open GRUB. Now however, it's not as simple as that. I'm using the Xiezhy bootloader. It can boot Vista (Restored the original bootloader after installing OS X) but not Linux. In addition, it cannot use a timed auto-boot. So If I could set up Xiezhy to auto-boot OS X, can I make the Windows bootloader point to that? Maybe some kind of GRUB entry to point to the Mac partition made from easyBCD?

 

Thanks!

 

Why not using GRUB to boot all OS'? I've found some tutorials:

 

 

If you're using GRUB 1:

 

http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1135890.htm

 

 

 

 

If you're using GRUB2:

 

http://maketecheasier.com/create-a-mac-ent...rub2/2010/02/12

 

 

 

 

Hope this helps some way. I personally just tried adding OS X and Vista in GRUB, and it worked

 

A problem I had was that Vista was installed with AHCI mode, and OSX in IDE mode, so take care with this.

 

 

 

 

Salutes!

[InsideMac]

I personally like to use EasyBCD because you can add OS' like Linux and Mac OS X into the Windows Bootloader so it will point to Chameleon or GRUB and it will boot great.

 

Here's the link, you have to run it on windows: EasyBCD