Triple Boot How To (osx, xp, ubuntu)

Discussion in 'MacOS' started by dfiore, Sep 23, 2008.

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  1. dfiore

    vl2006

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    vl2006, Oct 31, 2008
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    When booted in Linux, edit the following line in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

    makeactive

    to

    #makeactive

    (you are just commenting it out)

    Then, boot back into OS X and make the OS X partition active again. It should stay that way now.

    I was having the same option until I commented this line out.
     
    shadow349, Nov 5, 2008
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    could someone please post where i can download boot.zip? neither of the links in the previous posts seem to work.
     
    rmancl, Dec 22, 2008
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    Bump for the same problem.
     
    GriFF3n, Jan 8, 2009
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    rmancl

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    I looked at the easy triple boot thread and followed the guide referenced there.

    If you only need the info on fixing grub boot loader go to this link at insanelymac :http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=85508&st=0&p=606752&#entry606752

    You will need to be able to login as root to make changes to the files. I am not very good with terminal so i enable root to be able to login to the GUI.
     
    rmancl, Jan 10, 2009
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    i currently have 3 partitions
    XP
    OSX
    BLANK

    I am currently dual booting into darwin (iaktos 10.5.6) then selecting XP or OSX partiton.

    I want to install ubuntu (easy peasy) on the blank partitions.....will grub find the other OS's and simply take over as the boot loader? Is there a possibility I will lose an OS because it just cant be found?

    Please give me a bit of input.
     
    stretchp, Jan 16, 2009
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    it will find windows with no problem but you will need to follow the guide referenced above to add OSX to grub
     
    rmancl, Jan 17, 2009
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