bluejeans Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Initially, I had three partitions on my hard drive: Tiger, XP, and storage. This worked under boot camp and, later, rEFIt. I installed Ubuntu on the storage partition by manually partitioning the storage into a ~1GB swap file and the remaining space as ext3. Ubuntu works fine, but now XP will not boot. No Windows icon appears in the rEFIt startup (it was replaced by the Linux icon), and when I power up holding down the option key, and select the Windows drive, GRUB boots up Ubuntu only. Selecting Windows from the GRUB options does nothing (and I have the correct partition in the root command for the Windows startup). Diskutil lists this: /dev/disk0 #: type name size identifier 0: GUID_partition_scheme *111.8 GB disk0 1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Mac 31.5 GB disk0s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data 54.2 GB disk0s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data 25.0 GB disk0s4 5: Linux Swap 953.7 MB disk0s5 where disk0s4 is the XP partition, and disk0s3 is the Ubuntu parition. Additionally, I cannot mount the XP partition in either Tiger or Ubuntu. Is there something that I need to modify in EFI? Thanks for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91330-xp-not-booting-on-triboot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejeans Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Nevermind. Made a stupid noob mistake. I had installed GRUB on the wrong partition. Fixed it by running fixboot off XP cd, and then reinstalling Ubuntu from Live CD and setting GRUB to boot from hd(0,2). I had set this to hd(0,3) before. So now I have triple boot macbook pro: Tiger, XP, and Ubuntu. So sorry for wasting your time being a dumb a-wipe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91330-xp-not-booting-on-triboot/#findComment-653110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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