Genix Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Well I have 3 hard drives and I installed XP on one, OSX86 on one and Ubuntu on the last one. I figured I would show everyone my Grub menu.lst config in case anyone wanted to do the same. With a little tweaking I'm sure this could be done with a multi-partitioned hard drive. If anyone needs more info about this let me know and I will try my best. BTW this is obviously not my whole menu.lst just the bottom of it. title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic (recovery mode) root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic root=/dev/hdc1 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic boot title Ubuntu, memtest86+ root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin boot title Other operating systems: root title Microsoft Windows XP root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title OSX 10.4.7 root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28848-triple-booting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Evil Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 nice work. tinkering with grub config can be a little tedious sometimes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28848-triple-booting/#findComment-197902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genix Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 Yeah took a few tries but finally got it working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28848-triple-booting/#findComment-197929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike73059 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i did this on my grub menu and when i go to run osx i get an invalid partition format error. it says that i need to partition it to be the same as a windows partition. do i need to configure grub to run before the windows boot loader? i go to the windows boot loader then i run grub. if so how do i set it up to do that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28848-triple-booting/#findComment-653260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianimator Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Well I have 3 hard drives and I installed XP on one, OSX86 on one and Ubuntu on the last one. I figured I would show everyone my Grub menu.lst config in case anyone wanted to do the same. With a little tweaking I'm sure this could be done with a multi-partitioned hard drive. If anyone needs more info about this let me know and I will try my best. I just installed Mac OS 10.4.8 on a partition on the internal drive of my Motion LE1700 and now the Windows XP Tablet partition is not bootable. The Windows partition shows up as a read only volume on my Mac desktop, but the internal hard drive does not show partition options in the BIOS. In short, I now only have a Mac bootable PC. I was hoping to make this a dual bootable machine. What did I do wrong? Windows booted before I installed the Mac OS, and I only reformatted the Mac partition when installing the Mac OS. Is there a way to get my computer to recognize both partitions as bootable? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28848-triple-booting/#findComment-681072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
romefolks Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Well I have 3 hard drives and I installed XP on one, OSX86 on one and Ubuntu on the last one. I figured I would show everyone my Grub menu.lst config in case anyone wanted to do the same. With a little tweaking I'm sure this could be done with a multi-partitioned hard drive. If anyone needs more info about this let me know and I will try my best. BTW this is obviously not my whole menu.lst just the bottom of it. title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic (recovery mode) root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic root=/dev/hdc1 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-amd64-generic boot title Ubuntu, memtest86+ root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin boot title Other operating systems: root title Microsoft Windows XP root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title OSX 10.4.7 root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 hello Im trying to do something similar with two hard drives hard drive 1 will have xp and ubuntu hard drive 2 will have OS X i already had xp installed with a little bit of unpartitioned space left over, so i will use that for ubuntu i currenly use a seperate hard drive to run os x, so basically i just unplug the xp hard drive when i want to use os x. so now i want to use ubuntu's GRUB to triple boot them all. I dont know where to start. should i install ubuntu with or without the 2nd hard drive in? Please tell me the steps for this to work with the least risk!! I dont want to mess up xp or os x at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28848-triple-booting/#findComment-707982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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