Triple Boot Win7, Ubuntu 9.10 iATKOS
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…
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- @palz Published 2010-02-20
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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?
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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?
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?
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I would have used the latest version of the Chameleon bootloader, it has support to boot off multiple hard drives.
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if you install os x on a flash drive it will run really slow
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.;)
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
If you install grub last, it will pickup all the bootloaders including Windows.
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
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.
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.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @palz | Primary Author | 3 | 2010-02-20 → 2010-02-24 |
| @SportsGuy | Core Contributor | 3 | 2010-02-20 → 2010-02-25 |
| @stanca | Contributor | 2 | 2010-02-21 → 2010-02-25 |
| @harley_biker | Contributor | 2 | 2010-02-24 → 2010-02-25 |
| @00010 | Contributor | 1 | 2010-02-20 |