After so many trial and errors, finally I succeeded installing three OS in this cool netbook, Lenovo S10e. Well, actually I just installed additional two, SL and Koala, cause XP’s been there since the beginning. I decided to add SL when I visited this web which says that my novo has a quite compatibility with SL aside from the LAN. So if you want to try triple boot in your netbook, maybe my experience here can give you a clue of what to do.

First thing first. Some notes you need to know.

1. I used Lenovo S10e with the newest firmware. Update your firmware first. When I did this, I used the 14CN96WW firmware. Install that firmware from your XP. (XP was installed by default when I bought it).
2. I used genuine Snow Leopard and Karmic Koala
3. I had 4 partitions. 1 for XP, 1 for SL, 1 for Koala, and 1 for data (shared among the three). It appears that SL cannot be booted if it is installed in an extended partition. So from your XP, create another two (or three like me) NTFS partitions. No need for additional software to do this, just go to Control Panel -> Administration something -> and so on (I forgot the name, cause my XP is in Japanese ) It’s ok using NTFS for now, cause we will format them later when we install the OSs.
4. I backup my data, docs, pics, songs, and others before I did this, and I encourage you to do so, cause it could get nasty
5. Do this at your own risk! I won’t take any responsibility if anything goes wrong!

So if you’re ready to get dirty, let’s start moving!

1. I assume you have XP installed already. Let’s install SL first. Not as easy as installing Ubuntu, but not that hard too actually once you know the drill What you need:
   • A Genuine Snow Leopard DVD
   • 8 GB or more USB Flash drive or external HD will do too. I used my 80 GB ext HD   Btw, I’m not sure but the ext HD should be one partition only. I did with 3 partitions ext HD first, but failed.
   • System with Mac OS X to prepare the USB installation medium. Yup, you didn’t misunderstand, you need a mac to install a mac. If you don’t have one, find your friend who has and make the Usb in his/her mac. No friend has it? Well, find one!
2. Once you upgrade the firmware of S10e, download this S10e Enabler to make your USB installation medium.
3. In a Mac, format as Mac OS extended journal the USB flash drive/ext hd we’re gonna use for the installation medium.
   
4. Copy the content of SL DVD to the usb stick from the Restore menu
   
5. Still in Mac, run the S10e Enabler. When you double click the downloaded .dmg enabler file (for example “S10 Snow Leopard Enabler 1.1.2.dmg”, you will have two files: Enabler and Instructions. Run  the Enabler. And follow the wizard. IMPORTANT: in “Destination Select” phase, choose your USB Stick from “Change Install Location..” button. DO NOT INSTALL the Enabler in the mac system!!!! It will break the system! Trust me, I made this mistake.
   Install Enabler in the USB Stick!

6. Once it’s done, unplug the USB medium, plug it into the lenovo s10e. Boot from the USB stick by pressing F12 in the beginning.
7. Congratulations! You’re in Snow Leopard Installation. First, let’s format the partition we’re gonna use for our SL system as Mac OS extended journal. Then just follow the wizard.
   Choose SL Partition

8. It will take time, you can grab a coffee and relax first
   Installing Snow Leopard

9. Once it’s done, unplug the USB stick, then boot to the fresh from the oven Snow Leopard
   Snow Leopard in Lenovo s10e

10. Cannot boot to windows cause no option to boot to it? Just ditch it! Naa, just kidding, don’t worry bout it, we’ll fix it later. Let’s install Ubuntu Karmic Koala first. No external dvd/cd drive like me? Don’t worry. Create Ubuntu USB Installation Medium using UNetBootIn. Just follow the instruction in that page, pretty easy.
11. Once you have the Ubuntu Usb stick, boot from it. I won’t go step by step installation step, cause it’s so damn easy already Just some notes though: 1. Specify Partition Manually. Don’t install Ubuntu in SL and XP partition! 2. VERY IMPORTANT: On the last step of installation, before you hit that “Install” button, change the location of grub bootloader. Click “Advance” button then change the location to install grub to your root partition. For example, if you install “/” in /dev/sda3, install the grub in the same location, not in /dev/sda. After the installation complete, just reboot.
12. Still directly boot to Snow Leopard, don’t worry. In Snow Leopard, open /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist file then edit it. You can do it from terminal, open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities then type
    sudo nano /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist
    Change the value of “Quiet Boot” from “Yes” to “No”. Save the file then reboot.
13. Now you should see all the OSs: XP, Snow Leopard, and Koala like this.
    Bootloader

14. Try to boot to all of them one by one. Make sure everything works!
15. Enjoy!

It has been a while trying out the different distros and experimenting with double and triple booting OS. Finally I got to set up windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04 to dual boot on my desktop.
Tried to dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 but that did not work well.Installing karmic beta was a major issue. Had to download the alternate CD more than once all I ended up doing was installing the system but no dual boot and the system would hang running Ubuntu.
So now I reverted back to dual booting Jaunty 9.04 with Windows 7 and everything is fine.
This is what I did.

• Use the ubuntu live cd and partition the hard disk as you would like.
• Log out and install windows in the partition created. Do not allow windows 7 to format the disk for installation.
• Once you are done installing W7 install ubuntu 9.04 import users and files from the windows partition and everything works well.

Updated 13th Oct Triple boot

My laptop Toshiba M70 SR3 had windows XP now I have triple booted it with XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

• Prepared the partitions using GParted using live CD
• Installed Windows as second operating system (use the partition formatted using ubuntu)
• Install ubuntu as the third OS
• The Grub Menu will show ubuntu and Windows Vista (Boot Loader)
• Once you hit windows vista it will give you two options
• Windows 7 and Earlier versions of Windows
• If you choose earlier versions of windows you will get XP

Over the last few weeks I had been wrestling with a Mac Pro, trying to get a workable triple boot solution for my father’s consulting company. The basic idea was to install Windows 7 and Ubuntu on their own hard drives to complement the existing install of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and use rEFIt as the boot loader solution. This turned out to be easier said than done, and due to all my trials and tribulations trying to get this setup to work, and ultimately succeeding in it, I thought it might not be a bad idea to share what ended up happening in case others are in a similar situation.

The idea of installing each operating system on its own drive seemed like a straightforward enough plan.  The initial impetus for this project and the decision to use multiple drives actually came from an attempt to upgrade the machine to Snow Leopard.  After already partitioning and setting up the triple boot via Boot Camp on the original 640GB hard drive (roughly following the advice found here), I found that the partition table had been changed at some point from GUID (my suspicion is I made a misstep in the Ubuntu installation), and Snow Leopard would not install without a complete reformat of the drive.

So from that point we decided, as the plan was to expand the storage capacity of the computer anyway, to get a hard drive for each operating system and head off any partition table unhappiness.  It turns out installing the OS’s to different drives brings a whole new set of totally unforeseen problems, first and foremost that they each see to have very strong preferences for being in the first drive bay (or hd (0,0) as it is quaintly known by some).  Windows 7 in particular would not even install if it is being pointed towards a drive that is in any other position than the first bay, giving the very helpful error of “Windows 7 cannot install on the partition error code: 0×80070057″.  That was just the first of many problem which I won’t completely go into here, but what follows is the actual solution I ended up with.

Hardware Setup: Mac Pro (July 2009) with 1.5TB Seagate drive (Windows) (HD bay 1), 640GB stock Western Digital hard drive (OS X) (HD bay 2), 1.0TB Seagate drive (Ubuntu) (HD bay 3)

(Note: this order of drives/operating systems turned out to be key, as otherwise both Windows and Ubuntu got very confused and would either boot only one OS or just crash on boot)

Software: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard , Windows 7 RC x64 Build 7100, Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 64-bit, rEFIt boot toolkit

Process:

1. The first step was to do a standard install of Snow Leopard to the 640GB drive.
2. Once that was done, I installed rEFIt to allow for easy selection of OS and also to fix the Master Boot Record (MBR) after installing Ubuntu. Directions here.
3. Once rEFIt is installed and the system is rebooted twice to assure it is working, I put in the Windows 7 disk and went through with a standard install of that as well. Windows 7 uses an EFI bootloader, which for our purposes means much less headache than Windows XP or Vista which use an MBR bootloader and as I understand cause much more conflicts that must be managed.
4. Now when Windows 7 is installed and boots to the desktop fine after selection in rEFIt, I swapped in the Ubuntu LiveCD and rebooted into the LiveCD desktop.  After starting the install and using defaults for most of the install questions, the step you are looking for is when you partition the drive.  I of course selected the 1TB drive in position hd(2,0) and told it to use the whole drive, where it created a main partition (at /)and a small swap partition.  Making sure the main partition was flagged as bootable in the advanced options, I then proceeded onto the next step, the final before completing installation, and went to the advanced options.  It is here you want to make sure the GRUB bootloader gets installed specifically to the hard drive and partition where you are installing Ubuntu, rather than to the 0,0 drive.  So for my install it was /dev/sdc1, chosen from the graphical menu.  Allow it to finish the install, then reboot back to the rEFIt menu.
5. At the rEFIt menu, arrow over and down to the second icon from the left on the lower row.  This will check to see if the partition table is out of sync (which it is), and repair it when you type “Y” for yes.
6. At this point I found that I could get to a GRUB boot screen by selecting Windows or Linux from the rEFIt menu, but only Windows would boot.  I fixed this by following the GRUB instructions that show at the bottom of the screen and hitting “e” to edit the entry for Ubuntu in the GRUB bootloader, and changed the entry until I found the one that correctly booted Linux, for me it ended up being hd(0,0).  My understanding is that this is where the MBR is, and this is why it needs to look there, but in the end all I know is that it works cleanly and boots into Ubuntu perfectly.
7. That’s it! Sounds so simple when I break it down into these steps, but this was the result of two weeks of troubleshooting and countless reinstalls.  I did end up with a phantom extra Linux icon in rEFIt somehow (the “?” in the image above), but hey, everything is working so I’m not complaining.

Resources:

In the end I aggregated quite a few bookmarks of helpful sites, none applying exactly to my situation, but all providing some helpful tips for when things go wrong with the process.  Here are a few of the best that I came across, hopefully they help you if you came here and are having trouble:

http://refit.sourceforge.net/tripleboot/ – Helpful to a point, but outdated when you are trying to work with Windows 7 and I could not get the LILO bootloader it recommends to work the way they describe.

http://www.rickycampbell.com/booting-windows-linux-and-osx-on-your-mac-without-using-grublilo-to-boot-windows/

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=842100 – A good guide if you are just triple booting off a single hard drive.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=48005 – Good to know how to edit system protected files in Linux like the GRUB bootloader menu.lst if you are new to Linux, like me.

http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp – Extremely detailed walkthrough similar to the first link in this list, but again, a bit outdated if you are doing this on multiple hard drives or with Windows 7.

Super Grub Disk Rescue CDROM – This disk saved me several times when after installing Linux the bootloader was nowhere to be found, and I could not access the Ubuntu install at all.  Booting to this disk (specifically the one titled “grub-rescue-cdrom.iso” on that downloads page), allowed booting to any operating system regardless of bootloader situation.  Very helpful if you are in a tight situation.

And that’s it.  If I think of any other sites that were helpful, or tips on this, I will be sure to come back and update the post.  Hope this has been helpful to at least someone, and happy triple booting.

Trying to set up a triple boot on my new unibody MacBook Pro with 10.6. Seem to be having some trouble getting Fedora to install after installing windows. When I boot from my live usb/cd it just decides to load windows instead…

Anyone have any help or experienced a similar annoying problem trying to triple boot?
Please help if you can

You can download it free til August 20, 2009

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx

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Per Microsoft, here is what you need to have for the PC:

“Here’s what you need to have:

• Internet access (to download Windows 7 RC and get updates)
• A PC with these minimum recommended specifications:
  - 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
  - 1 GB of system memory or more
  - 16 GB of available disk space
  - Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
  - DVD-R/W Drive”

*** I wanted to keep using FAT 32 but you MUST use NTFS on this partition to install to.

My desktop PC is a 1.4 Ghz AMD +1700 32bit with 750 Meg Ram and I loaded it into a 8.36Gig partition as 1 of 3 Win versions in this triple boot machine.

The actual minimum footprint was 6.57 Gig in my install of Win 7 RC1 Build 7100.  I have restore points turned off.  Im sure with all possible feaures on and updates that you quickly get to the 16Gig that they require.

I was NOT able to put this on an old laptop because this old Compaq Presario 1255 only has only 168 Meg of ram.

The Win7 32bit RC1 Build 7100 .iso is 2,471,656 bytes (2.4 Gig)

“Normaly” I would “burn image” of this iso on my lite-on DVD burner, which extracts and burns the contained files to a DVD+R in this case.  Although my burns of DVD’s seemed good on my HP DVD+R media, they all got about halfway through the Win 7 install and had the following error:

“Windows cannot install required files.  The file maybe be corrupt or missing>.. Error code 0×80070017

This was evidently a common error in loading Vista too.

All I could find was recommendations to go with x1 or x2 speed and use DVD-R media (maybe Verbatim brand).  I didnt have that handy… so now what…

First off, i had to reformat my G: drive everytime as NTFS.

I used Undisker to extract the .iso to the XP (F:\) partition and then after booting into XP, I ran setup for Win 7 from there.  The “size on disk” of the files was2.37 GB (2,551,152,640 bytes).  This avoided a need to buy DVD-R disks.

*** You MUST also have about 990 Meg of free C:\ partition disk space although the Microsoft popup claims to only need 680Meg. Trust me, you get crashes partway through if you dont have enough C:\ space for installation files.

After about an hour of error free install time, I was trying out Win 7 RC1.

This free release candidate is supposed to be ok til March 01, 2010.  After that you can only use it a few hours at a time and then not at all after June 2010.  See microsoft site for details and any changes/clarifications to their offer.

*** I recently heard from someone that used DVD-R disk and used PowerISO for the burn and that worked too.

Since I’ve had nothing but trouble trying to find helpful information regarding installation of a triple boot on a MacBook Pro (an early one, not the new uni-body) I thought I would write quite a quick and simple guide that doesn’t require a genius to decipher. Obviously I’ve used other peoples information to figure this out but they’ve never been clear or using out-dated tiger terminal commands. So this triple boot is for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Windows XP and Fedora 10.

Let’s get cracking.

Install Mac OS X on your hard drive and update to the latest version. If you already have it installed, brilliant, but make sure it’s up to date (as of writing 10.5.6). Make sure you keep your Leopard install disc to hand. Go to http://refit.sourceforge.net/ and download rEFIt, this allows use to choose your boot OS in a nice GUI. Install rEFIT and during the installation process, customise and make sure all the boxes are checked including the Linux support box. I also find once it’s installed that it is a good idea to go to Macintosh HD/efi/refit and find the file enable-always.sh and run this in terminal. If terminal is not your friend just drag the file onto a terminal window and enter your password when prompted. This makes sure refit runs every boot.

Now this was the confusing bit for me, everyone says NOT to use Boot Camp Assistant but this is just not the case. Use Boot Camp Assistant to make a partition you want to use for Windows XP, let it do it’s business and when it asks for the install disc, use it! Follow the Boot Camp instructions and install Windows XP. When Windows XP is installed insert the Leopard disc and install all the drivers. You can reboot into XP now and update if you wish but I did not. Hopefully the Leopard install disc is in, boot from this and enter the installer. From here go to the menu bar and select Disk Utility, this tool allows for us to create the partition for Linux. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that you do this step after installing XP to avoid a lot of frustration, it took me two days to suss this out. Click your Mac OS X partition and push the little + symbol on the bottom right, this will take the currently selected Mac OS X partition and split it. Resize the Linux partition to the size you want and format it as either MS DOS FAT or Mac OS Journaled, it doesn’t matter and name it something you will remember . Reboot the system and at the rEFIt menu eject the Leopard disc. Insert either your Live USB or Live CD and restart the machine. Choose to boot from the inserted medium.

Now we’re onto the Linux installation. Running from the Live CD should boot you into the Fedora Linux environment. On the desktop is the “Click to install” icon. Double click this. Click next until you get to the screen which asks what type of layout you would like to use. Do not choose any other option apart from CUSTOM LAYOUT. Select this and click next, you should come to a partitioning screen. Select the partition you created earlier for Linux and select to format it as ext3 by clicking its current format in the list. Also on this screen should be a greyed out section that says boot from. Check this box and make sure it is set to boot from “/”. Ignore the speech marks. Click next, it should ask you whether you really want to format the disk. Yes, yes you do. Click the next buttons (it may ask you about a swap partition, sadly I do not know how to do this, it would be quite confusing due to XP you will be fine with a swap file assuming you’re partition is of a reasonable size) until you are asked about where to install the boot loader. Make sure it is set to /dev/sda3 and not on the MBR. This means it will not tamper with the XP bootloader or the Mac OS X one. Install Fedora and shut down the computer. Remove the Live media and you should be good to go!

Occasionally the XP partition might not boot after installing Linux, you can remedy this by booting from the XP disc and just reinstalling XP over the version that isn’t working OR by repairing the installation which is a little less time consuming. There is minimal chance of this happening.

Thanks for reading this, I hope you are successful.

EDIT – This will only work with Fedora 11 + if you install from the install DVD not the CD as refit doesn’t yet support ext4 and you can only install to ext3 with the install DVD. It’s also worth noting that as of the latest MacBook Pro models live USB’s don’t seem to work.

Well, the Windows 7 beta installation clobbered my Grub boot loader. Now, instead of a Grub menu with five different OS installations, I have the newest Windows boot loader and only Windows 7 and Vista listed. Not surprisingly, I want my stuff back.

Grabbing an openSUSE 11.1 installation DVD I boot from it and then choose Rescue System from the DVD’s boot menu. I then login to the rescue system and run grub.

Inside the grub shell I type:

find /boot/grub/stage1

This is to locate which disk, partition my old grub files are located on. I am able to determine that hd0,5 is my desired boot partition and next execute:

root (hd0,5)

This sets the root partition variable to that location and I can now run grub’s setup program.

setup (hd0)

It quickly steps through a few checks and then installs grub to the MBR.

quit

I rebooted the laptop, remembering to remove the DVD, and I am please to see my old openSUSE 11.1 Grub boot menu restored and listing all of my Oses except Windows 7. Now, I could at this point enter Grub’s editor mode and manually set it up but, with all the partitions involved, I’d rather have a graphical view and some more powerful editing tools than the grub editor so, I choose the openSUSE 11.1 install from the list and boot it with the intent of adding Windows 7 to the grub list from within openSUSE.

After logging in to openSUSE, I catch myself at a terminal running

fdisk -l

to list partitions and

sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

to edit the grub menu. I guess I didn’t really need graphical after all but, I had said I wanted a graphical view so I stop and close the terminal window.

Starting up Yast, I navigate to System -> Boot Loader. On the resulting screen I click Add and select to add a Chainloader Section and click Next. At the section editor screen, I assign it a name(Windows 7) click “Do not Verify Filesystem Before Booting” and then click the “Other System” drop down to select the desired partition. In this case /dev/sda7. After clicking OK I am returned to the previous menu screen and then use the Up and Down buttons to rearrange the menu options that Grub will provide at boot. A final OK and reboot presents me with a Grub menu replete with my newly installed Windows 7 option.

Choosing Windows 7 from the menu, the screen advises that it is booting (hd0,5) and freezes. Nuts! Poking around some more, I reboot and choose the Vista boot option from the Grub menu and it then presents me with the Windows Boot Loader screen containing Vista and Windows 7. Oh, I get it. It’s not as simple as I had thought. The Windows 7 boot files are still on the Vista partition so, I have to access the Vista partition first in order to boot Windows 7. This will require further work to get it booting directly from Grub to Windows 7 but, for now, it will suffice to select Vista and then Windows 7.

On to the testing.

Update:

It just dawned on me that the Windows 7 installation is on /dev/sda7, which is an extended partition. Since Windows can only boot from a primary partition, the boot files etc. will have to remain on the Vista partition, /dev/sda3. This means that I will not be able to make Windows 7 boot directly from the grub menu. Instead I will have to continue booting to the Vista partition which contains the Windows boot loader and then choose Windows 7 from there.

It’s really too bad that Microsoft hasn’t been able to figure out how to have independently bootable partitions like Linux and *BSD but, I will forgive them that. I still resent their overwriting of pre-existing boot loaders without so much as a prompt. At the very least, it’s really rude.

My quint boot guide.

I finished my quint boot yesterday. If you want to know how I did it just follow my quad boot guide then follow these steps. (Note you cannot follow these steps if you do not have my quad boot guide, or have not done it)

Step I. Set up:

1. Create a quad boot like I did my last guide.
2. Obtain the program carbon copy cloner for free (google)
3. Obtain the program winclone for free (google)
4. Make sure you pay for a copy of osx leopard server on ebay
5. Make sure you have a copy of your Ubuntu disk from the quad boot
6. Make sure you have your copy of windows vista disk from the quad boot

Step II. Cloning and Testing

1. Use winclone to back up both your windows partitions to you Macintosh HD hard drive.
2. Use carbon copy cloner to make a bootable version of that Macintosh HD to an external hard drive.
3. Use another partition of that same hard drive (use disk utility to make a partition) or another external drive and your Leopard server disk and install a copy of leopard server to the partition.
4. Make sure your Backup of your Macintosh HD is bootable restart the computer and boot to it. Do a brief scan make sure it didn’t miss any files. (I’ve never seen it miss a thing)

Step III. Partitioning and Restoring the Restorer.

1. Boot from your Macintosh HD partition on your external hard drive. Format the drive inside your macbook, macbook pro etc.
2. Create the following partitions I will list the sizes I used (the size can be whatever you want, but the order is Very important.

1. Vista = 15GB (Fat 32)
2. GRUB = 1GB (Fat32) (now only used for booting linux)
3. WindowsXP= 35GB (Fat32)
4. Macintosh HD 245GB ? (All leftover space) Osx ext journ.
5. Leopard Server 14GB Osx ext journ.
6. Free Space 7.5 GB (free space)

3. Use Carbon copy cloner to Clone your back up of Macintosh HD to your new Macintosh HD partition.

Step IV Formatting Windows Partitions

1. Reboot your computer, and boot in to your windows Vista disk
2. Click okay until you get to the screen where it asks you where to install it.

3. Press Okay until you get to the screen asking you where you want to install Vista.

4. Click the advanced tab in the right corner (advanced drive options?)

5. Format both your windowsXP and Vista partitions. Then exit that screen and the installer

6. It will warn you that your changes won’t be saved, but you will end up with them formatted to NTFS so it lies. We have to do this because I can’t make Fuze format to NTFS that well, and though we might be able to restore an NTFS volume to a fat32 partition it still leaves us with a file type we are unhappy with.

Step V. Restoring Windows

1. Boot your Macintosh HD internal Drive again.
2. Restore Windows Vista to the Vista partition, or 0s2 in mac talk
3. Restore Windows Xp to its partition, or 0s4
4. Boot both operating systems after they are installed.

Step VI. Final Steps

1. Your bootloader should have been automatically reinstalled when you restored “Macintosh HD” if it wasn’t download and install rEfit.
2. Restore Leopard Server from you external to your internal location
3. Install linux using my previous guide. For the quad boot.
4. Use rEfits partition analyzer to make sure everything is okay. (just like in my last tutorial)
5. boot Ubuntu. Follow tips in my last guide if it locks up.
6. Boot all windows partitions all should boot well.
7. Install Fuze for mac and ntfs/3g package. Now your osx install can share files with any of the operating systems except Ubuntu.
8. Make sure none of the windows partitions are broke, make sure all operating systems boot. If you have any trouble with any of them it would be vista just use its disk to fix its bootloader. Good luck!

Final Thoughts.

1. This can obviously be done without using backups. (ie doing fresh installs) I did this because I wanted to show how you can grow in to more and more Operating systems and opportunities to learn without losing data on any of the operating systems (ie programs) or losing the work you have already done.
2. The GRUB partition in this guide is smaller than the Storage Partition in my previous guide because its only being used as storage for a bootloader. Therefore you don’t want to use it as storage space. I remove the drive from the leopard desktop using the preferences in finder.
3. This works well because of the fact osx can now read and write NTFS. Storage space is no longer needed. If you want you can also install Fuze on your linux partition.
4. I am sure there is a way to back up Linux I will try CCC for that very soon. If anyone knows for sure email me.

After several unsuccessful attempts and crashes I finally managed to install Windows Vista Ultimate, Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.2)

Enjoy…

How to make your macbook quad boot : For the absolute beginner:
Do at your own risk I assume no responsibility.

Step One, Preparation

You will need the following items:

1. A Macbook, or macbook pro
2. A copy of WindowsXP
3. A copy of Windows Vista
4. A copy of the latest version of Ubuntu (Download 8.? For free)
5. A copy of Mac OSx Leopard
6. An external hard drive
7. A couple to a few free hours

Step Two. To partition or not to partition.

You will need to partition your hard drive to receive the best results. Decide how much space you want each operating system to have. Do not include storage space for the most part unless you need to store files bigger than 4GB on the same partition as the operating system. Once you have decided your sizes follow these steps.

1. Back up your system: Use: Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, Super Duper, Rsyncx etc etc it doesn’t really matter. Just back up your OSx how you choose.
2. Put in your Leopard Disk, Restart your system and hold down the C key.
3. Click continue or next on the first screen then instead of proceeding to install at the top of the screen. Click utilities, then Disk Utility.
4. Now its time to create our partitions I will first show you the layout then the explanation. In parentheses I will tell you how much space I used.

Create 5 Partitions. Click the options or advanced button under your partition scheme and make sure you have the GUID partition table button selected. OSx will not install to other partition tables without being hacked.

Now create the following partitions of the following type and name, by using the fields and drop down boxes on the left and right. Click on the partition to edit it.

1: VISTA = FAT (15GB was mine)
2: STORAGE = FAT (20 GB was mine)
3: WINDOWSXP = FAT (25 GB was mine) This must be the third partition or windowsxp won’t boot
4: Leopard = OsX Extended Journaled (255GB was mine)
5: Make the fifth partition in to free space with the drop down. It has to be for Linux to properly configure it later. (7.5GB was mine)

Step 3 Install our first OS

Now close out the disk utility screen and continue to install. Make sure you install Leopard on the leopard partition we created. Then once you have it booted up download and install our boot manager. rEFIt

After you have installed it make sure you go back to the install folder, and double click the bless script. (I don’t think it’s called the bless script, but that’s what it does it blesses it to start up just double click the script) that makes it write to your start up. You will know because it will open the terminal program and say completed.

Step 4, two is better than one.

1. Put in your windows Vista disk, and restart your computer, and hold in the C key.
2. Install windows Vista to the partition named vista. You will have to hit advanced drive options and format the partition first. Don’t forget where it’s at because it will no longer be called Vista once you format it.
3. Once it is formatted close the advanced screen and continue the installation.
4. When windows restarts after the first part of installation select the windows emblem from the rEFIt boot screen. And continue the installation.
5. If something goes wrong reformat the same partition and re install I had something go wrong one time just cause disk didn’t read right nothing I did.
6. Once windows is installed click the orb in the left hand corner click control panel, then system and maintenance, then under the navigation pane click storage, then disk management. You will see a layout of your partitions right click the partition titled WINDOWSXP and select the mark as active.

Step 5, Threes company

1. Insert your windows XP disk, and hold down the c key keep holding it. If for some reason you accidentally forget to and boot vista go back to step 6. you just did and flag windows XP as active again.
2. Format the partition called WINDOWSXP on drive C: – Quick NTFS then install windows there.
3. Installation is very basic. Once you are done you now have a triple boot mac.

Step 6, So Close

1. Insert your Ubuntu disk and hold down the C key.
2. Select install Ubuntu (second one down I believe)
3. At step 3 of the installation questions scroll down to Macintosh keyboard layout
4. At step 4 of the questions choose manually partition, and partition as follows:

A. Make a partition using drop downs of format type Ext3 and in the dropdown with the / or /boot possible choose / only in that drop down.

B. Make another partition, be careful to tell it to put the new partition at the end not move it to the front of the drive, and in the drop down box choose swap space. Not sure which drop down it’s in. Choose a space of at least the size of your RAM. I.e. If you have 2GB of RAM choose 2000 MB.

Now you should have two partitions. One to install on, and one as swap space. Highlight the install partition and click next. Then skip the migrate profile page.

5. You should now be on the install GRUB page click the advanced tab. You will have a dropdown box in front of you that says hd0 do not select a drop down from the box, instead type in literally without the dashes here, but with the parentheses – (hd0,2) – Click next. This will install linux’s boot loader on your STORAGE partition from earlier other guides say to install it to the linux partition but I have found that does not work as well. Make sure you never format your STORAGE partition or linux won’t boot.

6. Complete Linux installation. Linux will restart the machine.

Step 7, Cleaning Up The Mess

1. Everything is now installed, but will not play nice together til we fix it. Keep in mind we now have a hybrid partition table GPT & MBR. Kind of unheard of.

2. At this point Linux restarted the machine… when you get back to the rEFIt screen press right until you get to the partition analyze tool in rEFIt. Press enter it will ask you if you want to sync the partitions, press Y. (This fixes the partition damage Linux did not understanding the hybrid table)

3. Now try to boot Linux, highlight the penguin and press enter. If it freezes completely power down and try again. Do this a few times if needed. Linux just has to work out kinks.

4. You should now be able to boot Linux, and Windows XP but Vista should be broke. Put in your vista disk, and boot to it holding C then when you get to the install vista or repair computer click repair. Then click repair and restart. All four systems should now boot.

5. Now boot all your windows OS’s and have your leopard disk install their drivers. It should auto load. Enjoy your new machine. The STORAGE partition is visible to all Operating systems so use that to share files between them. Good luck!

6. You will notice you need to manually fix some things in Linux you are on your own on that one.

7. I hope you had fun, and learned something about partitions etc.

I just love these boots. These are expedition style boots from Asolo. They are called the Manaslu GV. Scarpa make a decent pair as well. They are called the Scarpa Phantom 8000. 8000 because they are rated for an altitude of 8000m.a

You can climb Mount Everest with these. You can go to the North Pole with these or visit Alaska. There are no dangers of frostbite with a pair of these on your feet.

What makes expedition style boots so fascinating is that no expense has been spared to make them. That is why they cost so much. Around US800$.

They use a triple boot system. Most expedition boots use a double boot system. They use a technical liner to start things off. Then the actual boot goes over this. It’s an 8″ affair. The boot is pretty rigid. Over this boot comes an overboot. This overboot packs more insulation and is used as a supergaiter as well. The overboot usually includes some aluminium or other material to reflect the heat back to your foot.

Model Manaslu GV
Outer Gaiter High Tenacity Cordura + Reinforcements with laminated Kevlar
Gaiter Lining Gore-Tex (XCR technology)
Shell Cordura mm Felt
Shell Lining 4 mm polyethylene + aluminium layer + velveteen
Inner Boot Breathable polyester + microfiber
Inner Boot Lining Breathable polyester + 200 gr Primaloft
Lasting Board Carbon + fiberglass
Anatomic Footbed Manaslu felt + 400 gr Primaloft + Cambrelle
Sole Vibram Mulaz + dual-density midsole in microporous rubber + PU attachments for automatic crampons
Fit MM
Weight Gr 1.531 (1/2 pair size 8 UK)
Size 6-12,5 UK

Inner boot

The inner boot, shell, and external gaiter are assembled together to offer maximum light weight, insulation, and a great fit. The double internal lacing, the waterproof external zipper, the avantgarde materials and technical components utilized, offer maximum guarantee for extreme use.

Light weight, breathability and comfort are three of the main features of this new inner boot. Thanks to the particular lacing system and the optimal fit, the foot is always comfortable. Insulation is guaranteed by Primaloft lining.

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Relevant Posts

• Overboots
• Insulated Socks and Boot Liners
• Expedition Boots
• Expedition Quebec Gear

Hoy he visto un vídeo que quiero compartir y es el siguiente: Triple Boot por Vizu, Vizu, el creador del mismo nos muestra cómo hacer para instalar Leopard, Windows XP y Ubuntu 7.10. en un Mac. Aparentemente es muy fácil de hacerlo, lo ha publicado tazzito en su blog, Vizu cree que así ayudará a mas gente, y yo quiero publicar el link para también así ayudar a la gente y hacerles ver que los Macs son los equipos mas multiplataformas que te puedas echar a la cara.

สวยงามถูกใจมาก ^^

คราวที่แล้วเขียนถึงตอนที่ติดตั้ง windows เสร็จ คราวนี้ก็เหลือแค่ linux แล้ว เพื่อไม่ให้เป็นการเสียเวลาเรามาเริ่มกันเลยดีกว่า

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon)

• ใส่แผ่น live-cd แล้วรีสตาร์ทเครื่อง เราจะเข้ามาที่เมนูของ rEFIt ให้เลือกบูทจากแผ่น (จะเห็นเป็นรูปนกเพนกวินกับแผ่น cd)

จากตอนที่แล้วเรารู้ว่าสามารถแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่นได้ 4 เท่านั้นทำให้ไม่มี swap แต่ว่าผมได้ลองทำพาร์ทิชั่น swap แล้วก็สามารถใช้ได้เพราะฉะนั้นเราก็ทำพาร์ทิชั่นสำหรับ swap

• โดยไปที่<code>System>Administration>Partition Editor</code>จากนั้น resize ขนาดของ windows พาร์ทิชั่นให้ส่วนหัวของพาร์ทิชั่นเหลือที่ว่างขนาดเท่ากับหน่วยความจำ (ขั้นตอนนี้รอนานมาก ประมาณ 4 ชม. ได้)

• ดับเบิ้ลคลิกที่ไอคอน install บนเดสก์ทอป
• พอถึงขั้นตอนการเตรียมพื้นที่บนฮาร์ดดิสก์ให้เราเลือกแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่นเอง จากนั้นให้ edit พาร์ทิชั่นที่ทำไว้ พาร์ทิชั่นที่จะติดตั้งให้ฟอร์แมตและเซ็ตจุดเม้าท์ที่ root ( / ) และอีกพาร์ทิชั่นสำหรับ swap (ห้ามยุ่งกับ sda1 กับ sda2 เด็ดขาด)
• จากนั้นให้ติดตั้งตามปกติจนเสร็จ
• รีสตาร์ทเครื่องถ้าติดตั้งเรียบร้อยเป็นปกติดีก็จะมีไอคอนให้บูทสำหรับระบบ linux ขึ้นมา แต่ถ้าไม่มีไอคอนขึ้นมาก็ให้เลือก Partition Tool จากเมนูของ rEFIt เพื่อให้ข้อมูลในตาราง พาร์ทิชั่น GPT กับ MBR ตรงกัน

เนื่องจากการใช้ระบบพาร์ทิชั่นได้ 2 แบบของ linux ทำให้เครื่องสับสนได้ว่าจะใช้ตารางพาร์ทิชั่นแบบไหน เพื่อเปิดให้บูทจาก EFI ตลอดก็ให้เราบูทเข้า OS X แล้วพิมพ์คำสั่งดังนี้ใน terminal

<code>cd /efi/refit
./enable.sh</code>

เท่านี้การติดตั้ง 3 ระบบก็เป็นอันเสร็จเรียบร้อยแล้ว เราก็ลองรีสตาร์ทดูแล้วเข้า Ubuntu ก็จะเห็นเมนู GRUB ขึ้นมา

หน้าตาตอนโหลดเข้า ^^

งั้นก็ได้เวลานอนแล้วสิเนี่ยไปนอนดีกว่า ^^

< กลับไปตอนที่ 1

ปล. สำหรับซีรี่ย์เรื่องนี้ก็อาจจะยังมีจุดบกพร่องอยู่บ้างถ้ามีอะไรผิดพลาดก็ช่วยแนะนำด้วยนะครับ ขอบคุณครับ

update : เอารูปที่ทำมาฝากครับ

update 2 : ถ้าต้องการปรับแต่งให้เครื่องทำงานได้สมบูรณ์ก็ไปดูได้ ที่นี่ เลยครับ

เคยมีความคิดที่จะติดตั้ง 3 ระบบมานานตั้งแต่ได้เครื่องมาใหม่ๆ แล้วแต่ก็ไม่ได้ทำซะที เพราะหาที่แบ็คอัพข้อมูลไม่ได้ แต่ด้วยเหตุการณ์เมื่อวันก่อน ทำให้มีโอกาสติดตั้ง 3 ระบบปฏิบัติการในเครื่อง macbook ของตัวเองขึ้นมา (ขอบใจมากนะ T-T) เลยมานั่งลิสต์รายการว่าจะเอาระบบอะไรบ้างที่วิ่งเข้าป้ายตั้งแต่เริ่มคิดเลยก็คือ OS X กับ Windows XP (สำหรับเล่นเกมส์โดยเฉพาะ) แต่สำหรับ Linux แล้วจะเอาอะไรดีหว่า…

เลือกไปเลือกมาก็มาลงที่ Ubuntu เจ้าเก่า – -” รุ่นที่เอามาติดตั้งนี่ก็เป็นการต้อนรับเวอร์ชั่นล่าสุดไปด้วยเลย (Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon)

ทำไปได้ 2 ระบบแล้วกำลังจะติดตั้ง ubuntu เป็นระบบสุดท้ายพอดีนึกได้พอบูทจาก live-cd เสร็จเลยมานั่งเขียนซะเลยกลัวจะลืม

ก่อนอื่นเรามาเตรียมเครื่องมือและวัตถุดิบให้พร้อมกันก่อนดีกว่า

1. boot camp (ไว้ทำแผ่นไดร์ฟเวอร์ของวินโดวส์)
2. rEFIt (เอาไว้บูทเข้า 3 ระบบ)
3. firmware update (สำหรับอินเทลแมคก่อนปี 2006)
4. OS X update (อัพเดตได้จากรูปแอปเปิลตรงมุมซ้ายบนได้เลย)

สิ่งที่ควรรู้ก่อนติดตั้ง

• Firmware : เครื่อง mac และ pc จะใช้เฟิร์มแวร์ต่างกันซึ่ง mac จะใช้เฟิร์มแวร์ EFI ส่วน pc ใช้เฟิร์มแวร์ BIOS ซึ่งเฟิร์มแวร์ทั้ง 2 ตัวนี้ใช้ตารางพาร์ทิชั่นที่ต่างกัน
• partition : การที่ระบบปฏิบัติการรู้ได้ว่าในฮาร์ดดิกส์มีไดร์ฟอะไรบ้างแต่ละไดร์ฟมี พื้นที่เท่าไหร่ จะมีตารางพาร์ทิชั่นที่คอยบอกว่าแต่ละพื้นที่ในไดร์ฟแยกกันตรงไหน ซึ่งตารางพาร์ทิชั่นที่ Windows(XP) ใช้นั้นจะใช้แบบ MBR(Master Boot Record) ส่วน OS X นั้นจะเป็นแบบ GPT(GUID Partition Table) ส่วน Linux รองรับทั้ง 2 แบบ
  ซึ่งตารางพาร์ทิชั่น 2 ตัวนี้แตกต่างกันที่

  - MBR จะจำกัดการแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่นที่เป็นแบบ primary ได้ 4 พาร์ทิชั่น ต่อ 1 ดิสก์เท่านั้น
  - GPT จะไม่มีการบอกว่าเป็นพาร์ทิชั่นแบบไหน (primary หรือ secondary) โดยสามารถแบ่งได้ 128 พาร์ทิชั่นใน 1 ดิสก์

  พอเราจับตารางพาร์ทิชั่น GPT กับ MBR มายำกันดิสก์ของเราก็ยังคงถูกจำกัดให้แบ่งได้แค่ 4 พาร์ทิชั่นอยู่ดี ซึ่งการติดตั้ง OS X จะถูกใช้ไป 2 พาร์ทิชั่น XP อีก 1 พาร์ทิชั่น เหลืออยู่ 1 พาร์ทิชั่นสำหรับ Linux แต่ไม่มีที่สำหรับ swap พาร์ทิชั่น*** และที่สำคัญคือ พาร์ทิชั่นของ Windows ต้องเป็นลำดับสุดท้ายเท่านั้นดังนั้นหน้าตาลำดับการแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่นเราจะเป็นลักษณะนี้
  1. EFI
  2. OS X
  3. Linux
  4. Windows

• Boot : เนื่องจาก boot camp ไม่รองรับในการติดตั้ง 3 ระบบ ดังนั้นเราจะใช้ rEFIt ในการบูทแทน
• Drivers for Windows : ใช้ไดร์ฟเวอร์จาก boot camp

ติดตั้งระบบ

OS X

• ติดตั้ง OS X แบบปกติก่อนยังไม่ต้องแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่น (ถ้าแยกพาร์ทิชั่นไปแล้วก็รวมเป็นพาร์ทิชั่นเดียวกันก่อนด้วยเครื่องมือจัดการพาร์ทิชั่น เช่น iPartition, Disk Genius, Volume Work เป็นต้น)
• อัพเดต OS X
• อัพเดต firmware
• ติดตั้ง boot camp
• ติดตั้ง rEFIt

Boot Camp & Partitioning

• เข้า Boot Camp Assistant เพื่อสร้างแผ่นไดร์ฟเวอร์สำหรับ windows พอสร้างแผ่นไดร์ฟเวอร์เสร็จแล้วให้ออกจาก boot camp เลย ห้ามแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่นด้วย boot camp
• เปิด terminal ขึ้นมาแล้วพิมพ์คำสั่ง
  diskutil list
  ควรจะแสดงผลออกมาเป็นแบบนี้

  /dev/disk0#:         type                name         size       identifier
  
      0:      GUID_partition_scheme                  *233.8 GB      disk0
  
      1:      EFI                                      200.0 MB     disk0s1
  
      2:      Apple_HFS              Macintosh HD   233.4 GB     disk0s2

• หา identifier ของพาร์ทิชั่น OS X (ในตัวอย่างจะเป็น disk0s2) ต่อมาเราจะทำการแบ่งพาร์ทิชั่นทาง terminal โดยมีรูปแบบคำสั่งดังนี้
  
sudo diskutil resizeVolume [identifier] [size] [label] [size] [type] [label] [size]

  ก็จะได้ลักษณะนี้
  
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 100.7G "Linux" "Ubuntu" 11G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 37G

  ซึ่งเราแบ่งพื้นที่ให้ OS X 100.7 GB, Linux 11 GB, Windows 37 GB
  เมื่อแบ่งเสร็จแล้วให้เรา reboot เข้า OS X ใหม่แล้วลองใช้คำสั่ง diskutil list เช็คดูว่าสร้างพาร์ทิชั่นใหม่แล้วรึยัง

Windows XP

• ใส่แผ่นติดตั้ง windows XP แล้วรีสตาร์ทเครื่องใหม่ พอได้ยินเสียงเปิดเครื่องก็ให้กดปุ่ม C ค้างไว้เพื่อบูทจากแผ่น CD
• พอเข้าเมนูแล้วให้ quick format ที่พาร์ทิชั่นที่แบ่งไว้สำหรับ windows จากนั้นให้ติดตั้งตามปกติ
• หลังจากรีสตาร์ทเครื่องครั้งแรกแล้วให้กดปุ่ม Alt/Option ค้างไว้จะมีเมนูให้เลือกบูทระบบ ให้เลือกเข้า windows แล้วติดตั้งต่อให้เสร็จ จากนั้นก็ติดตั้งไดร์ฟเวอร์ด้วยแผ่นไดร์ฟเวอร์ที่ทำไว้

Note : ถ้าอยากให้ mouse pad ใช้คลิกขวาได้เหมือน OS X ด้วยการกด ctrl+click ก็ให้ติดตั้ง Apple Mouse ด้วย

ในที่สุดเราก็มีระบบ 2 ระบบแล้ว ^^

สำหรับพาร์ทแรกก็จบเพียงเท่านี้ครับเดี๋ยวจะรีบทำพาร์ทหลังตามมาครับตอนนี้เหลือติดตั้ง Linux ก็น่าจะเสร็จนะ ^^

ต่อตอนที่ 2 >

ปล. สำคัญมากๆ อย่าลืมแบ็คอัพข้อมูลไว้นะครับ

ที่มา

• http://wiki.onmac.net/
• http://kitty.in.th/
• http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~mattgray/

I’ve decided I want to triple-boot OS X, XP, and Ubuntu. So now I’m just downloading the Ubuntu cd, backing up my data in case I horribly break something, and getting ready for some fun.

And on a different topic, I know I’ve given you a lot of YouTube videos to watch already, but this Lego parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey is awesomeness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzBZqTqUxXM