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Comment on Quad Booting Your Mac by Triple-Boot a Mac | Matthew Fickett

Triple-Boot a Mac | Matthew Fickett — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:32:41 +0000

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Comment on Triple Booting Your Mac by Triple-Boot a Mac | Matthew Fickett

Triple-Boot a Mac | Matthew Fickett — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:25:44 +0000

[...] Ubuntu Linux (version 8.04). It utilizes the rEFItboot menu, and takes advantage of the method first presented by Steven Noonan in October 2008 for allowing all three operating systems to boot directly from a rEFIt menu, [...]

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Comment on Triple Booting Your Mac by Steven Noonan

Steven Noonan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:25:23 +0000

Nice idea, underst8. What filesystem do you use for the Storage partition? I find that FAT32 mounts on everything, but I can’t stand the 4GB file size limitation. And NTFS works these days, too, but I’ve seen some very crazy write patterns from NTFS-3G and family (write a ton of data to an NTFS-3G mounted partition, then run a MyDefrag analysis in Windows and look at the disk map).

Comment on Triple Booting Your Mac by Underst8

Underst8 — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:19:29 +0000

Thanks for the killer article. I wanted to share my setup, which allows for three (or more) operating systems as well as a shared storage partition that they can all access. The trick is to install OS X to the fifth partition. So it looks like 1) EFI, 2) Linux boot, 3) Windows, 4) Storage, 5) OS X 1, 6) Linux, 7) Linux 2, 8 ) swap, etc…

I find that you must first partition the drive with 6 partitions (all HFS journaled) using the Disk Utility GUI on the OS X install cd, and then use the gpt command in Terminal also on the OS X cd to get everything resized and formatted correctly. You may need to delete and add partitions, but do not modify partition 5 for OS X- it needs to survive so makes sure that it is the size you need when creating it in disk utility. When I tried to just partition it all using gpt instead of first using disk utility, or changing the OS X portion, the MBR portion of the disk doesn’t survive.

Anyway once you get the hang of it it only takes 5 or 10 minutes to prepare, and its incredibly convenient to be able to share data between all operating systems without having to resort to an external drive or thumb drive.

Comment on Quad Booting Your Mac by Steven Noonan

Steven Noonan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:52:16 +0000

Yes, because neither Grub1 nor LILO can see past the 4 MBR partitions. You need GRUB2 to see GPT partitions.

Comment on Quad Booting Your Mac by zcorker

zcorker — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:39:47 +0000

I am exploring the possibility of doing a quad boot with Mac OSX, Open BSD, SUSE Linux, and Windows 7. Would the same guidelines and advice also apply for this installation? Do I also need GRUB2?

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fpoint — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:08:59 +0000

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links for 2010-03-06 « Donghai Ma — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:02:46 +0000

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Anomalous Anomaly » Blog Archive » Quad Booting Your Mac — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:12:19 +0000

[...] may remember my last article on a similar topic. At the time, I thought any more than three operating systems couldn’t be [...]