MoldyBread Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Specs (to get things rolling without delays) Intel Pentium 4 3.0E with sse3 Asus P4P800 SE Realtek 8139 (forinternet, Marvell won't work) (I got no sound) ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (Deleted kexts, boots fine! 1gb ddr 2700 ram What I have dome is made 2 raw partitions on a 80 gb drive, linux on one and OS X on the other, I have suse 9.3 and OS X Generic DVD. I want to dual boot them, but I don't know how help? I have intalled OS X on the 80 GB alone and it worked, but I want linux as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Specs (to get things rolling without delays)Intel Pentium 4 3.0E with sse3 Asus P4P800 SE Realtek 8139 (forinternet, Marvell won't work) (I got no sound) ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (Deleted kexts, boots fine! 1gb ddr 2700 ram What I have dome is made 2 raw partitions on a 80 gb drive, linux on one and OS X on the other, I have suse 9.3 and OS X Generic DVD. I want to dual boot them, but I don't know how help? I have intalled OS X on the 80 GB alone and it worked, but I want linux as well! If you still have OSX86 and Suse installed, you just need a bootloader like Grub, else take a look how to make a multiboot: Very simple tri-boot method made in 4-5 hours for 3 OS no matter if you use dd or the DVD, just install OSX86 first. Example with a triple boot OSX86 (HSF+), XP (NTFS), Suse (ReiserFS) and a data partition (FAT32) on a notebook 30 GB and Grub as bootloader: 1) installed OSX86 with a Linux-live-cd and dd method, use the DVD if you prefer 2) #cfdisk /dev/hda in a root shell with the same live-cd and I should see: /dev/hda1 -- 6.5 GB --af (was made during the OSX86 install with dd) With 23,5 GB rest I make (in this order): 1 primary ntfs (8GB) NTFS (code 07) will be /dev/hda2 1 logical swap; double from my RAM (code82) will be /dev/hda5 1 logical linux 8GB (code 83) will be /dev/hda6 1 logical fat32 with the 6,,1GB rest from the hd (code 0C) will be /dev/hda7 So I have hda1=HFS+ 6,5GB, hda2=NTFS 8GB, hda5=swap 1GB, hda6= linux 8GB, hda7= FAT32 6,2GB on a 30GB HD I installed OSX86 via dd on hda1 (first), XP on hda2, Suse on hda6, hda7 is a data partition for all in FAT 32. I installed XP after OSX86 but before Suse 9.3 with Grub as bootloader. XP & Linux found the partitions automaticly that I made directly after the OSX86 installation. I use Grub (delivered with Suse 9.3) as bootloader with this config: title OSX86 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title XP root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title Suse kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda5 showopts initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd Note: I tried to install XP in a logical, but no luck it wants a primary when OSX86 is also a primary partition If you don' have a linux live-CD, use Knoppix or here's one with only 50MB (dd and cfisk on it): http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoOpAfLy Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Hi... I have a small problem in here: I wanted to install, Windows, Mac OS X and SUSE Linux, on my PC. I used this tutorial to install the first 2 SO's: Tutorial The only diference is that I didn't install the Boot Loader, I was waiting for the SUSE to install Grub or Lilo. I used a startup disk with spfdisk, like mentioned on the tutorial, to change the active partition, between Windows and Mac OS X. And I managed to enter in both of the SO's and everything was right. The problem is when I installed SUSE, I installed Grub for the Boot Loader. I added Mac OS X's partition to the menu, but when I try Booting into this SO it gives me the message: HFS+ Partition Error... strange:s I've tryied everything and still ain't got a clue... Any Help or Advice is Welcome:D Thanks in Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl0w Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 DrJägermeister 1) installed OSX86 with a Linux-live-cd and dd method, use the DVD if you prefer 2) #cfdisk /dev/hda in a root shell with the same live-cd and I should see: /dev/hda1 -- 6.5 GB --af (was made during the OSX86 install with dd) _________________________________________ i had one partition for linux and one for osx86 10.4.1. i installed with dd method (deadmoo image). i had no problems with bootloader. my problem is this: the size of the second partition is 15GB. the installed osx takes up 4GB and the free space is 2GB. can i increase the free space so that i have total 15GB (osx + free space)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1981 Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Running Vista Ultimate and Leopard 10.5.4 on AMD 6400 2 gig ram ATI Radeon 3870 gigabyte gama790fx motherboard with ralink wireless card and gigabit ethernet!! Everything is working fine and dandy and all apps run smooth well the ones that i use and require! This thing even picks up my Logitech wirless keyboard and mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivtecc Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 This is prob the most simplest non-programmable, but technical way. Heres what you neeed. A dope ass motherboard/BIOS that can boot from a usb drive. 8GB usb drive for open suse 1 Hard drive for windows. 1 Hard drive for OSX Just before you start make sure you can boot form your USB drive. If so thats good. Install OpenSuse on this drive, It will take like 2 hours but its well worth it. Note that Linux will run really slow, im only using this for the bootload so i dont care. Once installation is complete. Set the bootdevice to the hard drive for windoes. install xp or vista.. Once tahts done. Set the bootdevice to the osx hard drive. Install OSX. Now try to boot from each drive making sure they all work. Now set the hard drive in this order. USB OSX drive Windows drive. edit your menu.lst in open suse. title Leopard rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Vista rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 And save it and boot. They should work fine, if not adjust the main drive number. from rootnoverify (hd0,0) to rootnoverify (hd1,0) This will save you so much booting errors if done right. Plus you can add on other OS's if you want with more hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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