Triple boot on Apple Intel Mac

[hardcandy2]

Triple boot on Intel Mac


Triple Boot via BootCamp

This procedure allows you to triple boot OSX, Windows XP and Linux. It has been sucessfully used to setup a macbook, but is untested on the imac/mini. Therefore if you try this you do so at your own risk.

In order to boot Linux, this method chainloads the Lilo bootloader from the Windows XP (NTLDR) bootloader. The reasoning behind this is that BootCamp expects to find ntldr on the master boot record.

 

[Tarrant64]

And???

 

[ForumMaster]

meh. mac os x is better then Linux. windows for gaming and os x for everything else.

 

[hardcandy2]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
And???

Because it is there.

meh. mac os x is better then Linux. windows for gaming and os x for everything else.

And???? 🙂

A difference of opinion is not a reflection of the merits of an endeavor.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Is there a way to just double boot with Windows XP and a flavor of linux?

 

[Tarrant64]

Yeah there is. However what you want to use to select which operating system you want to boot to can be troublesome. If I dual boot I use GRUB or something to do that. Not sure what distro's use that and which don't. Using the windows(boot.ini??) boot to pick which OS to go into, I think could be easier but I can never remember how to set it up right. If done wrong you can't boot into your linux partition.

 

[Nothinman]

meh. mac os x is better then Linux.

Depends on your gauge of what's better. By any real techincal comparison Linux comes out on top without question.