Like this: Like Loading Comments 4 Trackbacks 1 Leave a comment Trackback. Thank you, after much trial and error this was the easiest method. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Hello world! Archives November September Search for:. I don't need vista but would be fun to play in it Any way to shrink my used space on os x?
It has like 25 gigs used already! I haven't encountered any problems with this setup, been working pretty nice and fast. Seems that Intel Macs are even less picky on how to boot Use it all the time at work. Oh, and a side note. Vista Build didn't work on my MBP. Just BSOD on the loader. When I wrote these instructions I was using OK I finally got time to play with this a little but for some reason this setup hates me.
Every time I install XP it ends up erroring out after the initial blue setup screen portion reboots the machine. System says Disk error press any key to restart or something like that and the machine locks. Could be an MBR issue I've ran into that problem a few times usually when pushing an image via Ghost to the MBP. Usually its either a blank screen or 'Operating System Not Found' error though But after WinXP setup, if it gives you that error then locks.
Try booting from the XP CD again. Then go into the recovery console. Once in there it should detect the OS Then reboot. Hopefully that helps. You can also double check that the disk formated correctly by going into terminal and checking what fdisk has to say Should say something like this:.
Ok I followed your instructions, first off, in terminal.. Terminal didn't recognize the command. Booted into windows install, but it did not recognize the partitions I had created. It just showed up as one main hard drive with no partitions. First of all you should not have proceeded if the command didn't work. You definitely fat fingered something. I think it took me a few tries in order to get that down. I too had a 80 in my MBP and has small partitions.
Try the command again when you get to that point and then if it doesn't work for testing purposes try smaller partitions like 20 20 and 20 just to see if you can get it to work.
You can always repartition. I all in all probably spent 40 hours over the course of a week and a half learning about the do's and don'ts with booting the Mactel book pro. I started to document my work but it became exhausting and probably after 20 different configurations I was finally happy. I ended up using two firewire drives so I didnt have to keep toasting the internal install.
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Hi guys, Glad I found this forum! I have spent hours trying to get a triple boot happening on my macbook but havent had any luck! I have read countless sites about triple booting on the mac but very few have spoken about doing it with two different windows operating systems Most cover OSX Win XP Linux. There's no standard for where the boot loader should store its data.
The boot loader will normally occupy a space on your drive called the 'Master Boot Record' MBR but this is just as volatile as any other part of your hard drive. As a result, you may find that occasionally your MBR will be overwritten during system maintenance or an OS upgrade. In these cases, the boot menu provided by either Grub or Lilo will disappear and you will instead boot into the default operating system without any other options. To repair your installation in these cases, have a Live Linux CD such as Ubuntu handy to reinstall the boot loader.
Your alternative OSes will appear unscathed. And fortunately, things have improved considerably since the early years of Linux, and if you're installing a simple dual or triple boot system, you're unlikely to have any problems and configuration should be automatic.
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