OSx86 Triple Boot (Vista, Ubuntu) GRUB + Working EFI

[jimmycelt]

did you do this video rather than being at a party at your flat?

[skifischer]

@jimmycelt I was a freshman in a dorm room at this point so I was probably being pretty lame.

[PCwiz43233445669]

does ur windows vista have Fences? i have Fences on my widnows 7 enterprise 32bit celeron 450 2.99GHZ 2GB ram mac runs GREAT on virtual PCs but ive never figured out how to do that fully on my PC yet ._. if anyone can help me my aim is imabillionarexd4@aol.com ill be on at most likely 2 PM

[jcdenton7]

I attempted a quad-boot system once with Vista, XP Home, Ubuntu, and Solaris. Rather than using GRUB, I installed each OS separately with only 1 hard drive in at a time. I had 4 hard drives, so this method made it quite easy. To choose an OS, I would go into BIOS when booting and choose the hard drive number of the OS I wanted to boot. It was considerably easier than working with a boot loader. Due to my crappy motherboard and Solaris being picky, I was only able to get 3 to work at a time.

[skifischer]

@jcdenton7 Yeah i recently have been doing it this way as well. At the time I only had two drives.

[jcdenton7]

@skifischer I completely understand. I feel it would have been more difficult if I didn't have the same number of drives as operating systems. The sad thing is, I liquidated that system later on, so I ended up with 4 80GB hard drives that I have no use for. :-( I bought an external case for one of them, so I can use it as a plug 'n' play disk, but the other 3 are sitting unused.

[atrocity1]

great vid bro.. exactly what i wanted to see

[MrGrimreaper1995]

i have mac boot dvd but when i go to it just keeps restating p.s. is Ubuntu good? and my pc is INTEL but you can put mac on with crack

[MrGrimreaper1995]

yeah i hacked my presige mw2

[whiit2boy123]

how can i hack the slim ps3 can anyone plzzzzz help me out plzzz thank you

[hotfreshrider]

wallpaper is Strange World II 1920

^google image that.

great music once I turned my speakers up all the way ^_^ consider enabling "mic boost" next time ;)

[thecableguy0000]

i only installed ubuntu on my pc

[travers114]

Cool video. It inspired me to do a triple boot with iAtkos v5i + Ubuntu + Vista, however, I did get my internet and sound working natively.

[Kristaulf]

dude where's the music in this video from? it's really catchy!

[skifischer]

artist is lotus, song is Spiritualize

[kyle948474]

how did you get a working efi on your pc?

[F0XX1]

What's the name of the wallpaper you have? the one in OSX

[tight4soundz]

Not a computer expert, but it sounds like it's something that has to do with 3 OS partition booting up at the same time. Am I right?

[keizer566]

nice background can you send me the link

[skifischer]

turn it way up, my mic sucks

[Jhaeson]

AWESOME, someday I would like to try this... Congratulations ;)

[chepo1999]

How do i make a partition instead, of erasing all the data i already have?

[OfficerNelson]

GParted is the tool I use to modify partitions. Works relatively well, it's a Live CD. I've had some slight trouble with HFS+ partitions with it, though, so use caution. Google it for info.

Alternatively, you could just back up your data (probably the safest thing to do, even if you use GParted - or any other partitioning tool - because mucking with partitions can screw up a lot of things if done incorrectly).

[hellokitteng]

have u tried triple boot (leopard, xp & ubuntu) using rEFIt?

[AdrenalineRush89]

wow no one cares, get a life

[yellan13]

one thing im confused about. Do you have to set up grub or does grub detect the mac osx partition by default. The grub legacy bootloader only detects booting into FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux. The windows OS's and OS/2 are supported through a chain-loading function. So... should mac even be possible to boot with it?

[skifischer]

You need to manually configure grub to work with it, if you read the instructions on my website provided in the description there are details about setting up grub. You'll need to edit the config file under ubuntu/bsd or whatever you choose to setup grub on.

[hamiltonz]

Nice vid. I'll be doing the same shortly, though throwing XP in the mix. Curious what your motivations were for running so many OSes (Mine being primarily 'Because I can'), and which OS you're spending most of your time in (OSx86 I'll guess since it is your default)...

[putooo91]

i tried to install leopard a while ago but i almost fuck up my pc so i´ll stay with xp lol

[skifischer]

yeah thats why i recommend using two hard drives

[orcman2]

I'm too afraid to try this because I already have XP and Ubuntu installed. If I install OSX86 will it overide my grub settings?

[skifischer]

If you install this on a separate hard drive you shouldn't have any problems. You can always specify in your bios which drive you want to boot from. (check my tutorial in video info)

[yellan13]

you could always just reinstall the grub bootloader after you install mac on a new partition. thats what im going to do. I have xp, vista, ubuntu, and an 50 gig NTFS partition. I'll reformat that to mac extended and install mac on it, then reinstall the bootloader. In theory, it should work.

[vHYv]

What is the background music if you don't mind me asking? :D

[skifischer]

Lotus - Spiritualize (performed live at Jam on the River"

[THECORNDOGKING]

lotus...dam i haven't heard of them since bonnaroo '03, thanks for that :)

[marioskonstantinou]

Man your system rocks!!great job!Can you list a short discription of your hardware? U know Mboard,Ram etc.

[skifischer]

Look in the description, at the bottom theres a link to my step by step documentation with all the hardware info.

[bilsta57]

mann thats a sik wallpaper do you have it in 2560x1600 thats one hell of a wallpaper on you osx86 :)

[Meltastism]

i gots a b0 error for kalyway. :( any help?

[skifischer]

Be sure to format your partition as MBR, but also make sure when you got to "customize" that you set the EFI bios to MBR as well.

Hope it helps