chumblaka Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 I was reading at this site http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/12/...ot-on-intelamd/ and on the 22nd comment the guy said he got it to triple boot with the darwin bootloader "I got my system to work, able to boot (using the Darwin boot loader) into Windows XP, Vista and OS X." I want to do that, but im not sure how he did it. My machine is an acer t180 CPU: AMD 4200+ X2 HD:250gb Seagate SATA Mobo: Acer EM61SM/EM61PM Chipset:Nvidia IDO3EA 512mb DDR2 RAM (soon to be 2gb) Intergrated Geforce 6100 with 128mb(soon to be 8800 320mb) I currently have Vista on primary partition and xp on the other. Im going to make a 50 gig partition for osx86 Any help would be great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 read the wiki http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...s#10.4.8_Guides Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/#findComment-306092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumblaka Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 The wiki doesn't show how to use the darwin bootloader... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/#findComment-306112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailfish Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 That is true... The bootloader is "automatic". If all of the OS's are on the same drive, it will find them on it's own. F8 at boot brings up the loader. Just pick an OS and go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/#findComment-306283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Freak Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) That is true... The bootloader is "automatic". If all of the OS's are on the same drive, it will find them on it's own. F8 at boot brings up the loader. Just pick an OS and go. Add-on to that comment: Partition your HDD to three peices, install different OS's (Mac, Windows, Linux). When the next time starts, press F8 and select your partition, and that boots up the OS! It's really not that hard Edited February 19, 2007 by Apple Freak Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/#findComment-306349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabioxx Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 hi all, i have a question i can't answer to: now i'm running osx 10.4.8 and xp, all fine. they are on same hard disk and i boot using darwin (have set it to display os list for 30 second, then i choose what to boot). i also tried to boot some time ago using chain0 and no problem if the 2 os were on 2 different hard disk. then the hard disk with osx died so i installed it in the same hdd of xp. i can add now a 120gb p-ata hard disk to my system, and here what i want to do: 80 gb p-ata disk 1- 40 gb for xp 2- 40 gb for vista i think i can boot using boot.ini 120 gb p-ata disk 1- 40 gb osx 10.4.8 2- 40 gb osx 10.4.8 for test (new kernels and all other stuff) 3- 40 gb osx for backup and data i don't know if in boot.ini i can put 2 lines to use chain0 or if it works only with one installation of osx; if i set as active one of osx installation, does darwin can boot the other as well the 2 windows os? is there a way to solve my problem easily, for ex. the use of another boot loader, even if i would prefer using darwin or chain0 method. thank you, i hope you will help me, i must do in few days. bye Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/#findComment-313458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabioxx Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 no one can suggest me something? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42809-triple-boot/#findComment-313942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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