mr.thraz Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 hi all. noobie here. ok, i finally got my computer in the mail. its a madtux linux ready 64 bit machine i put 2 gigs of ram in it , 2 dvd rw drives and 2 seagate barraccutas 150gig each. my plan was to triple boot winxp x64/osx86/linux(freespire) i d.l.ed gparted and partitioned the first drive into 3 pieces. patition 1=primary ntfs, patition 2=primary fat32, partition 3=extended with a sub of riserfs and a 2gig linux swap. finally the second drive is a large fat32 for univeral storage i got xp installed on the first partition no problem. i got a hold of JaS 10.4.8 AMD intel SSE2 SSE3 dvd, and had it installed on the second partition on my 3ed attempt. the only real snag i hit there is that my display will only go as far as 1024x768 and id like to see if there is a way to get that to 1280x1024. the third partition had freespire installed on the riserfs. i rebooted and was disappointed to see that grub only listed freespire and windows as bootable options. i looked around for answers but every thing had only command line fixs (which scared me). then i ran into gag 4.7. its a graphical boot manager and seemed the answer to my prayers. it didnt have an osx option but it did have 3 bsd options so i thought it might work. well i installed it and sadly found that it would only boot windows. it gave a"hfs+ partition error" for osx, and it would'nt boot freespire either . well after a day of serching this site, and pulling my hair out, im now ready to try anything to get this finished. if someone could, 1) tell me how to fix the resolution in os x. 2)inform me me of a graphical boot manager that will boot all of my o.s.'s, or barring that... 3) give me detailed instuctions on how to fix grub. thanks in advance, im eternally greatful. and im a big fan of this site and it community, without who's knowlage i would not have gotten this far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.thraz Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 bumping.... i hope it isnt considered rude. i just dont want the post lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 (edited) Got success with Powerquest BootMagic. Therefor you will need XP installed on FAT32. Acronis BootManager may do the trick too. Hint: try to repair your 2.nd partition with diskutil from DVD. May be the volume-header is wrong. Like mine was. Edited February 6, 2007 by tuxuser33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvornik Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 (edited) To add OS X to Grub in Opensuse 10.2 I had to manually add the following lines to the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, which is essentially a text file: title Whatever you call your OSX root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 Where (hd0,1) is whatever your actual OSX partition is. Technically you could do it through graphical interface, but Suse's control panel module writes incorrect sintax to the file. In Suse, according to instructions I found in one of the posts here, I had to use a program called joe (I guess you can edit it with other programs as well). I typed this in Terminal ("su" is to get into root mode): su joe /boot/grub/menu.lst Then you see a text file that you can navigate through with a keyboard. Edit text, press Ctrl/K + X to save (Ctrl and K together, then X right after). There are some patches for the videocards. For Nvidia I installed one on the install DVD that was called Natit dualhead. Natit is available for separate download as well. I think other cards need different patches. [edit] BTW, I tried several bootloaders but could only make Grub work for quad boot. The only tricky thing was adding a disk with an old XP installation, I had to add some remapping lines. But good thing is - it's just a text file. If one entry is wrong the rest still works. So you can change it until you get it right. Edited February 6, 2007 by dvornik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.thraz Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 yaaaaay!!! thank u so much for pointing me in that direction. i can now triple boot through grub. my hackintoshux uses a Embedded Intel Extreme Graphics engine with 64M shared memory is their anything out there for that.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvornik Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 (edited) That's great. My experience is pretty much limited to my own hardware. Try searching the board for exact name of your card. Their search is a bit screwed up - you may need to use pluses or quotation marks or whatever if you search for multipe words. See if this looks like your hardware: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=757 Edited February 6, 2007 by dvornik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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