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.
I have tried this thousands times and no use, MAC OS couldn’t start up.
As mentioned in the post, you need to update /boot/grub/menu.lst. If you did that, let me know the entries you have there.
Of course, I did changed the grub. To make sure I will tell you about my configuration:
I have two HDDs: 1 Maxtor 40GB and 1 Hitachi 160GB.
The Hitachi is labeled as Data for storage.
The Maxtor has three partitions: first for windows, second for MAC and third for FC 8.
And here for the Windows and MAC. Windows boot normally but not for MAC.
title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Mac OS X86
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
What are you using to format? You can’t format NTFS with Disk Utililies?
It doesn’t matter it this case. Here, we are starting from scratch. Remove all partitions, format and repartition. Disk Utility will not erase NTFS, but can remove it
Hello there. I have already gotten XP & Ubuntu installed on my WiBrain, a UMPC/handheld computer. I’m interested in doing some development work for Mac OS & the iPhone, so I’d like to go one step further and install OS X. However, as yet I know little about the new Macintosh operating system (I used to work on the old Power-PC ones back in the day…) and I’ve never undertaken its installation. I notice that it comes conspicuouly first in your order of operations, and you’re no doubt knowledgeable about these processes, so I’m wondering if, in your opinion, it would be possible to install Mac OS X as a third partition on the same physical drive with my other two OSes — or would this be tempting fate? [-:
The other challenge for me would be the installation medium. I have a very large (32GB) flash drive I could use for installation, but I don’t have any access to a working Mac OS installation. I’m not interested in running a live installation /from/ this device, not only because it would be slow, but because the small computer I’m using is somewhat awkward to use physically when there is a USB drive plugged into its side. Any advice or links about getting an OSX86 installation ISO onto a flash drive would also be greatly appreciated. I have looked around a bit and I am inundated with information about installing /to/ USB drives — rather than installing from them, if this is even practical.
Thank-you very much for sharing any knowledge.
- DC
Mmm… just discovered this link, which will help with the second part of my query:
http://forums.msiwind.net/post60464.html#p60464
I will go and tinker with that, but please do let me know your opinion about installing OSX on top of these other two…
I had trouble while configuring my system for triple boot. As i had windows installed first. Then i came across this article http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1135890.htm which made me understand what to do step by step and also made me understand why am i doing those steps. Hope this helps you too…
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