Triple Boot

[Jetta VR6 6Spd]

I just got this working today.

 

Brief idea of how I did it.

 

dd the image of OS X across the network.

 

Install XP Pro without changing the existing drive partitions any. Just add a 10 -> 15 GB NTFS partition, format it, and install XP.

 

Install Fedora Core 4 with the options of booting hda1 as Mac OSx, hda2 as Win XP Pro, and the the Fedora is already in there. Pick your default boot, and you got it.

 

Think the details for the individual parts have been covered elsewhere, but if requested I will post more.

 

Thanks,

BJ

[lad]

I just got this working today.

 

Brief idea of how I did it.

 

dd the image of OS X across the network.

 

Install XP Pro without changing the existing drive partitions any.  Just add a 10 -> 15 GB NTFS partition, format it, and install XP.

 

Install Fedora Core 4 with the options of booting hda1 as Mac OSx, hda2 as Win XP Pro, and the the Fedora is already in there. Pick your default boot, and you got it.

 

Think the details for the individual parts have been covered elsewhere, but if requested I will post more.

 

Thanks,

BJ

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Good to know that it's possible, but can you post a little more details on this? Like how did you set up your partitions a long the way? I'm planning to do this with my laptop.

[svecias]

Good to know that it's possible, but can you post a little more details on this? Like how did you set up your partitions a long the way? I'm planning to do this with my laptop.

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canyou please post your grub configuration.

 

i on my laptop have /fedora3, and xp

 

and on a 3rd partition i have osx from dd/flat.img file.

 

thanks!

[z28james]

The way I did it was I used the ubuntu live cd, made 3 partitions. 1st was OS X, 2nd was XP, third was Ubuntu. Installed in that order. When it was all said and done i was left with grub as my boot loader, i copied the section that it had put to boot XP and changed the root partition line to (hd0,0) and there you have it

[Jetta VR6 6Spd]

Good to know that it's possible, but can you post a little more details on this? Like how did you set up your partitions a long the way? I'm planning to do this with my laptop.

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Sorry about the delay. I've been working on smoothing out some other aspects (driver development).

 

The setup is fairly simple.

After you have your OS X dd on the drive and running, just install windows into a new partition.

 

At this point you will only be able to boot into Windows (temporary).

 

Then finally install Fedora Core 4 and allow it to setup the partitions or do it yourself.

one of the next few steps is to setup GRUB. During that step, set one boot option to point to hda1(OSX), one to hda2(XPPro), and then fedora is already listed.

 

I have since reloaded the machine multiple times so I no longer have the Triple boot installed.

[xqz]

how did you dd across the network? id like to know how to do that if i can then i dont need a usb thing

[jamesia]

how did you dd across the network? id like to know how to do that if i can then i dont need a usb thing

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mount //machinename/share /mnt/temp -ousername=USERNAME,-passwd=PASSWORD

 

If you're using linux, that is... I don't know anything about dd.exe for Windows. The /mnt/temp is the place where the network machine is mounted.

[Jinx]

When it was all said and done i was left with grub as my boot loader

 

 

can you focus on the grub part for a bit ?

 

i have fc3/windows/osx but i cant get grub to get osx to load

 

i figured out how to grub windows though

 

grub becomes problematic when its not installed to the same physical drive as windows

 

(i have 3 harddrives)

 

you have to use map (hdX,X) (hdY,Y) where X,X is the startup drive and Y,Y is the windows drive, so windows thinks its the startup-- otherwise you get a missing NTDLR error

 

as for osx, that method doesnt work. I get something along the lines of "not executable format"

 

 

help?

[bionicoz]

can you focus on the grub part for a bit ?

 

i have fc3/windows/osx but i cant get grub to get osx to load

 

i figured out how to grub windows though

 

grub becomes problematic when its not installed to the same physical drive as windows

 

(i have 3 harddrives)

 

you have to use map (hdX,X) (hdY,Y) where X,X is the startup drive and Y,Y is the windows drive, so windows thinks its the startup-- otherwise you get a missing NTDLR error

 

as for osx, that method doesnt work. I get something along the lines of "not executable format"

help?

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well, I have two hd, hda where is installed linux and osx (plus one ntfs partition) and hdb where is installed winxp. I run grub on the mbr on the first hd and everything works correctly. This is my grub.conf

 

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.8
root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3  root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda7 vga=794 splash=verbose hdd=ide-scsi
initrd (hd0,4)/initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r3

title=Windows XP
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1


title Mac OS X
rootnoverify (hd0,2) 
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

 

and after have modified grub.conf type this in the grub console:

 

grub> root (hd0,0)          Specify the /boot partition
grub> setup (hd0)           Install GRUB in the MBR
grub> quit

 

As you can see I have osx installed on the first hd, in the third partition (hd0,2). (grub start hd numeration from 0 whenerver linux start from a: (hd0,2) it's /dev/hda3)

 

I hope to have been useful. Bi0.