Triple Boot Win7, Ubuntu 9.10 iATKOS

[palz]

I installed Ubuntu Karmic on a reformatted HD. Then I installed Win7, and used EasyBCD to add linux to the windows bootloader. So I get the winload.exe bootloader when I turn on my machine.

I have successfully installed iATKOS v5i on a clean HD on the same machine. I know I can use EasyBCD to add Mac OS X to winload. After I install leopard, how do I boot back into windows and add a bootloader entry for osx?

Also when I installed OSX earlier, it was laggy even when the installer wasn't. I have a friggin' good video card, so how should I speed things up?

Computer: Acer Aspire X1700
Intel Pentium Dual-Core @ 2.40 GHz
Realtek HD Audio
nVidia GeForce G100 (or thats what devicemanager says)


PS: I have a USB 8GB drive. Can/Should I install iATKOS there?

[00010]

I would have used the latest version of the Chameleon bootloader, it has support to boot off multiple hard drives.


00010

[SportsGuy]

if you install os x on a flash drive it will run really slow

[palz]

Yes, cause PC-EFI creates another partition. Anyway, here's my partition map (thats what windows said)
Disk0: Master Boot Record
Partition1: NTFS, Windows 7, Primary, Active
Partition2: Ext4, Linux, Primary
Partition3: SWAP, LinuxSwap, Logical

...so I have one primary slot left. Does chameleon create another damned partition? And can I boot into windows from it?

[stanca]

You should may boot in Windows from chameleon bootloader,I can.Anyway I'm using Ubuntu's Grub2 to triple boot Windows+Ubuntu+Mac Leopard.;)

[palz]

So when I install, I can access Ubuntu+Windows? Then I use EasyBCD to add MacOS to the windows bootloader + make Windows partition active?
And if this creates a partition with just chameleon, can it be logical?

[SportsGuy]

Yeah, what I do is add all the OS's to my windows bootloader, and from that, I can either load up Windows, Chameleon, or Grub

[harley_biker]

If you install grub last, it will pickup all the bootloaders including Windows.

[SportsGuy]

If you click customize or advanced on the last step of installing linux, you can install it to just the linux partition instead of the whole drive

[stanca]

The best and the most certain is to install Grub2(Linux) last then you can add the Mac's entry later in boot/grub/grub.cfg file through etc/grub/custom.It was the only way for me to triple boot successfully.

[harley_biker]

You can change the menu list in grub, rename the list, change boot order and default boot item. When grub loads, it can boot directly into your preferred OS after a timeout.