MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS

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1. On 27 May 27270, 10:30 by Yossia

   i already had Mac OS X 10.6 and Win XP (Boot Camp) installed on my laptop, so i started from the Resize stage

   Resize

   • Go to Applications/Utils and launch Disk Tool

   • Split and resize the main partition in order to have a new partition that you name Linux and format in HFS. (16GB here)

   • Check everything.

   before installing Ubuntu, i wounded to check the rebooting to the Mac and Win-XP OP, but unfortunately i couldn’t boot the WIn XP anymore. :(

   from the Mac i can see the BOOTCAMP partition and disk and all the files on it.

   Do i missed a stage after the resizing that i need to do so the Win-XP can be rebooted ?

   Thank You for your help and for making this procedure available
   Best Wishes
   Yossi

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3. On 10 May 10100, 5:06 by trouble2316

   so i got ubuntu and win 7 on my macbook.and now the sound dont work in win 7.but thay do in lunix .got a older white macbook with 10.4

4. On 22 May 22220, 7:13 by Peter Johnson

   I have been trying got weeks to be able to triple boot my macbook 5,2 with snow leopard win 7, and ubuntu 9.1. I have osx and win7 working, and after alot of work, I was able to finally install ubuntu, but now after I select it thru refit, it says grub loading, then I have an option to select what I want to run, I choose linux. After this, I get a curser and then a black screen. Nothing happens.
   I would appreciate any help or advise. Thank you.

5. On 31 May 31310, 2:02 by Jekken

   These instructions works brilliantly!! Simple yet functional.
   Very good the part about installing grub to the linux partition instead of the mbr. That has been a headache for me. Now Im triple-bootin and doin movie editing in cinelerra in ubuntu 9.1, gaming in MSXPpro and using snow leopard for the rest.

   Thanks a bunch!

6. On 2 May 2020, 3:40 by omnicap

   h JBi, cool reference!
   I have installed windows on it now want to add linux. I think you have a typo in the linux part, it is disk utility instead of disk tool right? could you map out a bit detail how to do this step? i dont want to screw up anything as i have a lot of stuff installed in windows already.
   thanks for your help!

7. On 30 May 30300, 6:07 by Ster

   So , 7 hours later I now have a working mac with 3 OS on it. This tutorial as well as the on provided by Alien ( much simpler to follow ) work.

   Also don’t forget to sync like twodogs mentioned.
   “you must resync the mbr/gtp by rebooting and right clicking until you get to the partitioner in refit. enter ‘y’ and your done.”

   The only thing that I can see is that the option to boot into Refit or another OS shows the Windows 7 option along side of the Refit. Is this becuase windows 7 is gpt/efi compatable ?

   Thanks for the tutorial guys!

8. On 17 May 17170, 11:41 by Alien

   Thanks
   I installed Fedora10,Windows 7 beta and MacOSX

   Further details are in my blog

   http://triplebootonmacbook.blogspot…

9. On 6 May 6060, 3:21 by SWmac

   i cant split and resize my partions
   “Error resizing format” occured.

   i used. terminal with follow:
   sudo diskutil resizeVolume disks01 400G “JFHS+” “Linux” 33G

   any idea ?

10. On 31 May 31310, 9:27 by twodogs

    you must resync the mbr/gtp by rebooting and right clicking until you get to the partitioner in refit. enter ‘y’ and your done.

11. On 17 May 17170, 9:31 by Mart

    Indeed cool site! unfortunately I cannot boot into Windows. I get the Grub bootloader and when I chose XP I getan error 12: invalid device requested.Boots great in ubuntu and leopard.menu.lst looks good.using rEFIt of course ;)

    any advice please?

    thanks

12. On 18 May 18180, 10:24 by jahromico

    my macbook not active keyboard

13. On 7 May 7070, 7:30 by John B.

    Brilliant site! I have already installed XP using bootcamp and installed rEFIt today while just playing around. A couple of months ago I created a Ubuntu disc and played around with it on a desktop, but would like to learn more Linux on my Macbook. Now for the questions–
    1)What is the procedure for installing Ubuntu after the above described procedure?
    2)In the following passage you wrote—
    During the install I deleted the new partition and added two in place:

    • One root partition /

    • One swap 1GB

    • Finish everything, reboot

    You should be careful to install your grub in your linux partition and NOT in the MBR, to let reFit do it correctly.—
    will this all be self evident? I know the definition of a grub, but can you be a bit more descriptive on this step?
    3)Lastly, to install the drivers for the wireless modem, do you simply type all of that code in the terminal on Ubuntu?

    Thanks a bunch–I hope to be able to learn a hundreth of what you know about Linux!!

14. On 22 May 22220, 8:04 by Matt

    Hi, I am having a little trouble understanding how to do this. I have a 13" Macbook running leopard and have tried to install windows xp pro sp2 using the bootcamp program but after windows has installed and my mac reboots I try to boot into windows and it comes up with error some file missing or something. I had figured out how to get around this by installing a fresh tiger and then running bootcamp on that and windows worked fine. All had to do was update into leopard and the windows partition remained, but now I want to install ubuntu and windows??

    Matt

15. On 16 May 16160, 12:58 by JBK

    I would suggest that you install Linux but install grub on your linux partition and NOT in your MBR.

    Mark this partition as active and reFit should play it fine.

16. On 12 May 12120, 2:37 by Andrew Pennebaker

    Originally, I had Tiger. Then I installed rEFIt and Ubuntu Linux. I decided one day to try to add Windows Vista. Eventually, it installed. However, rEFIt no longer displayed Linux as an option to boot to. When I synced the GPT and MBR tables, Vista would no longer boot. Both Linux and Vista became unusable, and every tool (gparted, etc.) showed Vista as empty space, like it had never existed.

    Now, I’ve wiped and installed Leopard, then successfully installed Vista with Boot Camp. Currently, I switch between them with the native Mac bootloader (pressing the Option key). I would like to turn this into a triple boot by installing Ubuntu, but I’m not sure how I should setup GRUB, etc. I don’t want to use rEFIT for the danger it poses to my partitioning tables. Is it possible for the Mac native bootloader to choose between three partitions for booting?

    My second preferred option is to overwrite the MBR with GRUB to choose between Linux and Vista, which I have done several times on other computers. But I’m afraid this might mess up the whole Boot Camp situation. I guess the safest option is to use Windows’ NTLDR to load Linux.

    What do you suggest?