AsterixTheVicking Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I have one HDD and three partitions: 1. Vista 2. XP 3. OSX How can make a tripleboot? I don't want to use Acronis OS Selector, I prefer other software such as Grub. Can help me to configure Grub? or other better bootloader? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/71939-triple-boot-vista-xp-osx-how/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerses Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT THIS BE AWARE THAT YOU COULD SCRAP YOUR EXISTING INSTALLED OS' AND LOSE YOUR DATA. I KNOW BECAUSE I DID IT LEARNING HOW TO GET THIS RIGHT. 1) Create 3 PRIMARY RAW partitions 2) Install XP Pro as usual in partition 1, quick format it NTFS during the install, Reboot 3) Install Vista in partition 2, quick format it NTFS during install 4) In Vista : Download and install EasyBCD 1.7.1, install it, Reboot 5) Install OSx86 in partition 3, Disk Utility, Erase as Extended Journaled partition 6) When you reboot and get Darwin, press a key, select Vista and boot to it 7) Read the EasyBCD documentation and configure EasyBCD as explained (not that hard) 8) You are done! I have 1 HD with XP Pro, Win Server 2003, Vista and OS X installed Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/71939-triple-boot-vista-xp-osx-how/#findComment-509536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsterixTheVicking Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 Tnx for your help, I will try and I hope it will be all ok. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/71939-triple-boot-vista-xp-osx-how/#findComment-509586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerses Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Just one note... if you are using JaS 10.4.7, there is no boot option in the Darwin loader so you lose the option to go back to Vista or another OS. I am guessing that you will need to install Vista over Vista to "fix" the loader back to Vista's. Once done then go to EasyBCD and add OS X to the loader and point to your OS X partition. I am having a little issue with it right now. EDIT: I just realized that the boot options in the Darwin loader will also give you an error when you try to boot to Vista. I don't know what is happening since these are the instructions I got and it seemed to work at first. Work in progress. Will advise. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/71939-triple-boot-vista-xp-osx-how/#findComment-509630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsterixTheVicking Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 I installed EasyBCD 1.71 and now I have a boot with a menù: Vista XP OSX When I select OSX, Darwin boot but I have another menu under Darwin bootloader: Vista XP OSX if I don't selext osx, Darwin start Vista. So how can change the order of Darwin boot: 1.OSX 2.VISTA 3.XP or if it is possible to delete Vista and XP from Darwin boot menù? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/71939-triple-boot-vista-xp-osx-how/#findComment-509704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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