Searching way for Triple boot - Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

[maciekwpl]

Ok, guys. What i want to achieve is pretty hard, and i want to have triple boot on my PC - with Ubuntu, Windows XP and Mac OS X Leopard. I found two guides :

http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp

this one doesn't count because it's for Mac users

and the second one (it's spanish, i thought online translators would never help me, and i was totally amazed - it was translated almost perfectly!)

http://hyanetworks.com/wordpress/2007/09/22/triple-boot-windows-linux-ubuntu-mac-os-x/

translation:

The other day browsing woallance3 found this tutorial, and I think very good, and if I try works, so we will share with you.

Requirements:

* Your PC must be able to run Mac OS X86 (Hardware Compatibility List)
* Have a DVD patched MacOS X can download the torrent from here (Mac OS X 86 10.4.9 desktop PC - SSE2 SSE3 AMD and Intel SSE2 SSE3)
* Having two disks (I suppose that could be achieved with one, but this manual is only for two hard disks to avoid problems with partitions)


Instructions:

1. The two disks have to be configured as teachers (none slave)
2. We divided as follows the first hard disk:
* A partition for Windows (NTFS)
* Another for Ubuntu (Ext3)
* And a third for the swap Ubuntu least 1024 MB (Ext3)
(This is what you can do with the Gnome partition Manager Ubuntu CD Live Ubuntu)
3. We disconnect the second hard drive and install Windows (XP or Vista)
4. Ubuntu installed in the second partition, the swap takes the solo (for virtual memory). Ubuntu Dapper Fawn as downloads from here.
5. We connect the second primary hard disk and disconnect the disk you just install Windows and Ubuntu.
6. We installed Mac OS X on the hard drive newly connected.
7. Once installed Mac OS X connected the hard drive from the BIOS and set in paragraph Boot that default boot from the hard disk on which we have installed Windows and Ubuntu.
8. We entered Ubuntu and add Mac OS X Grub as follows:
* We applications and in the first paragraph chose Terminal.
* Wrote in the terminal sudo gedit / boot / grub / menu.lst and enter your password but not see the asterisks.
* A window apart and the end of the file write.
Mac OS X title root (hd1, 0) makeactive chainloader +1
9. Reiniciamos and away you go.


Note: If you do not see Mac OS X on the grub repeats step 8 and change root (hd1, 0) by root (hd0, 0)


Very nice tutorial indeed, but i would like to use only 1 hard disk. Does Mac OS X overwrite MBR? What is the order in which i should install these systems? I suppose Win XP, then OS X (overwrites MBR) then Ubuntu (overwrites MBR once more) and then edit GRUb to see OS X partition. How do i do this?

[Deciare]

I found an article on quad-booting XP/Vista/OS X/Linux (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Quad_booting). o.O This may be helpful to you because it specifically uses GRUB as a bootloader, and you can just skip one of the OS'es if you want to triple-boot instead. I'm still reading through it, so I don't have much specific advice to offer, but I thought you might want to know about it sooner rather than later.

If you come across something you don't understand, it may not be a good idea to dive in and mess with it right away.

The guide seems to completely skip instructions for installing Linux, but I infer that it comes after installing OS X and should be installed onto one of the logical partitions you created back in the Getting Started section of the guide.

[maciekwpl]

Ok, Thank you. I will take a closer look at this guide tommorow (that's when I'll have my new computer :D)

[()va|_]

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This should be helpfull regarding mac-related stuff.

[SmSpillaz]

[Note that Compiz Fusion does not support, endorse or encourage installing Mac OS X onto Non-Apple hardware]

Alright, that should kill the lawsuits. What I really want someone to find, is a way to run the all the cool features OS X has on top of the linux kernel ^_^.