DsurioN Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 I was wondering if anyone here had sucessfully triple-booted these three OS's - I've tried many times but I just can't seem to get the partition schemes right. Basically, we need to find out how boot camp creates a dual GUID/FDisk partition scheme and make 3 partitions with that, instead of just 2. Otherwise, windows XP sees the whole drive as a single partition. I've tried splitting the partition created by boot camp but vista screws up the windows xp install when i install it on the newly created space. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45385-tripleboot-os-x-xp-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonpool Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 There are some articles about this. Basically you need use command line diskutil to create two partitions for Windows XP and Vista. It's recommended to install Windows XP first and then Vista on a different partition. Windows XP is better to installed on the last partition. You can launch Vista installation from Windows XP if you cannot boot from Vista install disc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45385-tripleboot-os-x-xp-vista/#findComment-324483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchimpo Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Any luck yet? I would love to be able to triple-boot Tiger, XP and Vista but have not seen step by step instructions yet. dragonpool did you ever figure out how to do this? Anybody else? - jchimpo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45385-tripleboot-os-x-xp-vista/#findComment-339161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Quit? Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I am currently installing XP onto my FW800 external in order to achieve this idea. This is how it's broken down: OS X and Vista on internal MBP 120 via Boot Camp XP on FW800 external rEFIt bootloader Edited bootloader config to allow Vista's BOOTMGR to see XP partition If all goes well, I shall be triple booting OS X 10.4.9, Vista Ultimate, and XP SP2. With XP only available through the external drive. I will post back with results/errors/etc... FQ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45385-tripleboot-os-x-xp-vista/#findComment-343869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcuneytx Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I want to achieve such a tripleboot also.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45385-tripleboot-os-x-xp-vista/#findComment-344005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 Success! I am now triple-booting XP Pro / Vista Ultimate / OS X 10.4.9 on my intel iMac (no external HD required). I followed the instructions in this tutorial: http://www.windowsonthemac.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2 and then I installed rEFIt and modified the boot.ini in the windows xp partition so i can boot directly into it with rEFIt without the need for the vista bootloader. (i had to copy ntldr and ntdetect.com) post here if you have any problems Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45385-tripleboot-os-x-xp-vista/#findComment-344120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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