Dell M50 Precision Notebook -- Works Just Fine

[saxrider]

After my initial practice installation, I'm now triple booting Tao Linux 4(RHEL clone), Windows XP and OS X (10.4.3 8f1111a w/jas 4.2b patch) on my Dell Precision Workstation M50.

 

I installed XP first, on partition 1.

 

Then installed Tao Linux, system root on partition 2, created an unused partition 3 for later use by OS X, and set partition 4 for Tao Linux.

 

at this point Grub is the bootloader (from Tao Linux install) which allows me to choose between XP/Tao.

 

Lastly I install OS X on partition 3. After reboot, I expected the OS X install to overwrite mbr, and to go straight into OS X. This was not the case. Grub still came up, with my choice of XP/Tao. So I choose Tao, drop to a cli and edit the grub config file. I added another entry so that the Grub bootloader would point at 4th partition where OS X was installed. Rebooted, the entry was visible, selected it, and OS X loaded just fine.

 

I'm typing from it now.

 

part 1 = 18gb (xp)

part 2 = 18gb (tao linux)

part 3 = 18gb (os x)

part 4 = 1 gb (swap partition for tao)

 

In OS X, sound and ethernet work. I can use "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32" at boot time successfully..can't go any higher. (Uses vesa 3) Builtin wifi isn't working...haven't tried very hard though.

 

that's about it for now.

 

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