Tri Booting with Vista, OS X Leopard (Kalyway)and Ubuntu 7.10

[Actaeon]

So I've spent about two whole days trying to get this working, so far, no luck. I must have installed Leopard at least 15 times with no success! Usually some issue from HFS+ Partition Error or the Blinking Cursor in the top left. I eventually had to reformat everything and start with Windows again. After doing even more additional research, this is what I have planned.

 

My goal is to have a tri-boot setup allowing easy access to each OS upon bootup. This must be done in a single hard disk as this is a laptop.

 

Please let me know if I'm heading in the right direction. Let me begin by discussing my setup.

 

I will be using a Dell Inspiron E1405 with a single 250GB 2.5 SATA HDD. I have a Windows Vista Install Disc, OS X Leopard 10.5.1 Kalyway Disc, GParted Live CD, and Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD. Additional software will be EasyBCD for setting up boot options later.

 

1) I will use a GParted Live CD to Repartition the whole drive.

 

2.) First, I will have an NTFS Partition (Primary) of 100GB For Windows Vista

 

3.) Secondly, I will use an EXT3 Partition (Primary) of roughly 32 GB for Ubuntu

 

4.) Lastly, I will then create a FAT32 partition (Primary) of 100GB for Leopard to recognize for installation. This should use up all 232GB (thats whats left of 250GB after the formatting)

 

5.) I will then install Windows Vista to the NTFS Partition

 

6.) Once Windows is installed, I will then install Ubuntu to the EXT3 Partition.

 

7.) Once Ubuntu is done, I will then being installing Leopard Kalyway.

 

8.) I will reformat the FAT32 Partition as HFS+ Journaled in Disk Utility during the setup.

 

9.) Exit Disk Utility and begin installation using the proper customization (MBR and Vanilla options) to install Leopard.

 

10.) Once leopard successfully installs, I will then boot up using GParted again to set Windows as the Bootable Partition

 

11.) When Windows Boots Back up, use EasyBCD to setup the boot options for each OS.

 

12.) Eat Ice Cream and enjoy easy tri-booting goodness.

 

 

Will this let me achieve my goal of having a tri boot system where I can easily select the OS upon bootup?

 

 

Thanks,

Jonathan

[riahc3]

I guess your going to be the one with the big balls to try it!

 

Id do it myself but I have to finish a C project in about 5 hours.

[Actaeon]

I suppose so. Unfortunately its my only computer at the house, so I can't pull up additional resources or check additional input by users if it goes bad.

 

Just waiting for Ubuntu to finish burning on a boot CD before i start the installations.

[Actaeon]

That didn't work as well as planned .

 

Since OSX installed last, I get a blinking cursor if I leave it.

 

If I try booting into Windows Vista Partition using GParted, I receive an error telling me that winload.exe is broken. StartUp repair doesn't work, and since I don't have a restore point (fresh install), it can't roll back.

 

If I try booting into Ubuntu Partition using GParted, I get an "Unknown File Extension Type" error or something.

 

If I try booting into the Leopard Partition, I get an HFS+ Partition Error.

 

Hmmm....

[riahc3]

So basically nothing

 

We need some help on this

[Actaeon]

I may revert to a dual boot between Windows and Leopard if I can't figure anything out. Fortunately I can still use the boot disc to get into Leopard, but this is less than ideal.

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Did I do something wrong?

 

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...&hl=triboot

 

Looks like a good informative thread.

 

I may try the coccolino_dbro method and see how that works. Maybe if I can get back into Windows, I can then install EasyBCD and launch all 3 OSes.

[edmondwck]

You may find the following link helpful (I am not sure whether it works)

 

http://cybernet1.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-...s-mac-os-x.html

 

If you are using Kalyway 10.5.1, you had better name your OSX86 partition with ONE word only during installation.

Otherwise, you may get a blinking cursor during booting. Someone said this is the installer bug. At least this is my case.

 

Hope it helps.

[riahc3]

You may find the following link helpful (I am not sure whether it works)

 

http://cybernet1.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-...s-mac-os-x.html

 

If you are using Kalyway 10.5.1, you had better name your OSX86 partition with ONE word only during installation.

Otherwise, you may get a blinking cursor during booting. Someone said this is the installer bug. At least this is my case.

 

Hope it helps.

Thank you very much Maybe if I have time today Ill give this a shot. Thanks!

[JamieN]

I suppose so. Unfortunately its my only computer at the house, so I can't pull up additional resources or check additional input by users if it goes bad.

 

Just waiting for Ubuntu to finish burning on a boot CD before i start the installations.

 

You know, if you are using the ubuntu livecd you can boot it up like normal and access the internet from there since ubuntu comes with firefox (this is of course provided your wireless/lan card works out the box in ubuntu) so if anything ever went wrong and you needed to check. (obviously it is going to be a tad slow since running from cd but it has helped me many times ).

 

Jamie.

[riahc3]

Any progess on this?

[xeik]

Any progess on this?

 

 

 

 

I have ubuntu and MAC perfect install dual boot and shared partition!

 

1º use GPARTED Live CD --> http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/

#1 partition primary FAT32 for mac

#2 partition primary EXT3 for ubuntu

#3 partition SWAP for ubuntu

#4 partiton logical FAT32 for documents and all (can access from ubuntu and MAC)

 

2º install MacOSX (change partition to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled))

3º install LINUX

4º try this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=89292 to activate dual boot in grub.

 

hope that helps!

[inedible]

Here's how I accomplished it,

 

I followed directions in this thread once I had vista and osx both installed and both with broken bootloaders... (I was getting HFS+ Partition Error)

 

Then once I'd gotten those two straightened out with their boot sectors installed all nice, I went and installed ubuntu.. installed grub to the mbr, and let grub take care of everything.

 

by the way, a big problem I had getting vista to boot was that it refused to fix its problems...

the startup recovery thing would either find no problems, or it would wait 15-20 minutes to tell me it doesn't know how to fix it.

 

I found out that there's a command line that does everything the startup repair wizard does, only it's instant and it doesn't fail all the time...

it's called bootrec, and the options are bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot

 

Hope that helps!

 

It's really frustrating and really time consuming, I almost ripped my hair out a few times, but in the end it's worth it!

 

Good luck!

 

edit: I have no idea why, but I actually wrote the second half of this post as a reply, but somehow they got condensed into one post, and the board software ate all my formatting... VERY ODD.

[Ludvig M]

I'm using EasyBCD to quad boot. Unfortunately it only works in Windows Vista. That's why I'm using Vista.

[First]

Actually I'm having 5 (so far) bootable OS-es on a 250GB notebook here:

 

* Vista (NTFS, came preinstalled, shrunk its partition to 75GB)

* FreeBSD (UFS, 25GB)

= Extended:

* Kubuntu (15GB)

- Linux (15GB, will have Debian or something else there)

* Tiger (10GB, an emergency boot if Leopard gets screwed up)

* Leopard (25GB)

- NTFS (65GB)

 

I didn't need to actually install Tiger, just copied its raw partition from my old notebook.

 

And yes, I have managed to boot both Tiger and Leopard from logical partitions with GRUB.

Just copy boot0 to the Linux partition, point a Grub entry to it and make sure you have _only_ your MacOSX partition active.