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Triple boot - Mac OS X, Windows XP & Ubuntu Linux on Intel PC

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Okay! You decided to have three OS on your machine. After experimenting with various procedures, this worked well for me. Here are the steps:

Note: This procedure involves re-partioning your system, hence you would lose your data. Please BACKUP your data before you try any of these.
I. Instal Mac OS X 10.4

  • Boot your machine with Mac CD. From the Disk Utilities menu, make 3 partitions. I created partitions with sizes 16GB for Mac, 8GB for Windows and 13GB for Ubuntu.
  • Format Mac partition with Mac OS X journaled, Windows partition with NTFS and Linux partition with Linux types.
  • Instal Mac OS X on Mac partition.

II. Instal Windows

  • Insert windows CD, make sure you select the windows partition.
  • Just follow the instructions and complete the installation.

III. Instal Ubuntu Linux

  • Restart the machine with Ubuntu Feisty CD.
  • Select the linux partition. You may also need to create a 1GB partition for swap
  • Follow instructions and complete installation.

Now restart the system. GRUB starts and you will have options to choose Ubuntu and Windows. But where is Mac option? Don’t panic! Log into Ubuntu. Add the following entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Mac OS X (Tiger)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Restart now. Hopefully you now have options to choose all three OS.

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