rovitotv Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Greetings, It seems no matter what I do I can't get the triple boot to work, I have tried in the past on a white Macbook and now I am trying on a Mac Book Air. I must be missing something but I have spent hours and never seem to get it to work. I followed the instructions here: http://lifehacker.com/5531037/how-to-tripl...ifehacker/full+ I am using the latest version of refit 0.14. In each case two of the three operating systems work fine but I can't get Linux to boot no matter how many times I reinstall. Any advice or helpful hints would be great. My symptoms are that the Linux icon on boot from refit boots windows. The refit windows icon boots windows 7 as expected and refit OS X boots OS X. Thanks. Here is the output for the partition inspector: *** Report for internal hard disk *** Current GPT partition table: # Start LBA End LBA Type 1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT) 2 409640 141246223 Mac OS X HFS+ 3 141246224 142515767 Mac OS X Boot 4 142516224 200450047 Basic Data 5 200452096 236976127 EFI System (FAT) Current MBR partition table: # A Start LBA End LBA Type 1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective 2 409640 141246223 af Mac OS X HFS+ 3 141246224 142515767 ab Mac OS X Boot 4 * 142516224 200450047 07 NTFS/HPFS MBR contents: Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable Partition at LBA 40: Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message) File System: FAT32 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT) Partition at LBA 409640: Boot Code: None File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+ Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+ Partition at LBA 141246224: Boot Code: None File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Mac OS X Boot Listed in MBR as partition 3, type ab Mac OS X Boot Partition at LBA 142516224: Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista) File System: NTFS Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 07 NTFS/HPFS, active Partition at LBA 200452096: Boot Code: GRUB File System: ext4 Listed in GPT as partition 5, type EFI System (FAT) ======================================================================= Now I have OS X and Fedora 15 only and the system still does not boot Fedora. I am really at a loss???? When I re-installed Fedora I made sure grub was installed in /dev/sda4 not at /dev/sda. In addition I went into rEFIT console and ran the command gptsync. Please help! Here is the output from the partition inspector after win7 is removed. *** Report for internal hard disk *** Current GPT partition table: # Start LBA End LBA Type 1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT) 2 409640 141246223 Mac OS X HFS+ 3 141246224 142515767 Mac OS X Boot 4 142516224 181942271 EFI System (FAT) Current MBR partition table: # A Start LBA End LBA Type 1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective 2 409640 141246223 af Mac OS X HFS+ 3 141246224 142515767 ab Mac OS X Boot 4 * 142516224 181942271 83 Linux MBR contents: Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable Partition at LBA 40: Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message) File System: FAT32 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT) Partition at LBA 409640: Boot Code: None File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+ Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+ Partition at LBA 141246224: Boot Code: None File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Mac OS X Boot Listed in MBR as partition 3, type ab Mac OS X Boot Partition at LBA 142516224: Boot Code: GRUB File System: ext4 Listed in GPT as partition 4, type EFI System (FAT) Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 83 Linux, active Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/270940-need-help-with-macbook-air-31-triple-boot-mac-os-x-lion-107-windows-7-and-fedora-15/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigsmack Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Sometimes i had to add --force when installing grub. Have you tried super grub boot disc http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/270940-need-help-with-macbook-air-31-triple-boot-mac-os-x-lion-107-windows-7-and-fedora-15/#findComment-1769471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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