rEFIt tutorial pt 1

Part 1 of a 2-part tutorial on triple booting your mac

-Download rEFIt at http://refit.sourceforge.net/
-disk utility
-3 partitions. Make the 2 partitions you create FAT FORMAT
-write down the sizes of the partitions cause you'll need that info later
-Order: Mac, Linux, Windows
-Install Windows FIRST!
-Make sure you install it on the right partition! reference your notes on what size the windows partition is
-Format windows as NTFS if the partition is more than 32gb
-Install Ubuntu (or any other form of linux)
-if you have questions on how to install drivers on linux, leave a comment and ill help you out

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• triple
• boot
• mac
• OSX
• windows
• ubuntu
• linux
• SP2
• refit

[EllDay89]

If i allready have bootcamp with win7 can i simply drag my windows over to rEFit??? Dont wanna reinstall windows all over and games n wat not.

[totolook]

it's work in pc-efi?

[MrTechCenter]

Do you have to make it triple boot? Can you make it with just Mac and Windows?

[NPderive]

Nice video, thank you. I was stuck on something that was problematic due to my partition scheme. I'am wondering, will refit only work with a 3 partition setup like yours? I was hoping to try it with 4 or 5. I'm just having trouble finding a good reference for that. I wanted to try a flavour of BSD and possibly Solaris.

[kMogs17]

@TheAustinconstable

I Dont. mine just comes up every time i boot. in fact ive noticed my refit to be even more stable than it was in snow leopard

[TheAustinconstable]

in lion to get the rEFIt menu you have to type in terminal every time you go into mac

cd /efi/refit

./enable.sh

[TheNinjaNasty]

Anyone have any issues installing rEFIt on 10.7.1? I installed it and after the 2nd reboot, rEFIt didn't load and OS X would just hang with the pinwheel going around under the apple logo.

[lohiaguitar91]

Hey, can you explain how to install the Mac drivers on Ubuntu? Thanks!