General :: Triple Booting - Windows With Gnome And KDE

Aug 1, 2010

I'm trying to install (k)Ubuntu 10.04 side-by-side via Wubi, so that I can triple-boot Windows with the GNOME and KDE flavors of Ubuntu. Is there a way to install an OS to another folder?

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OpenSUSE Install :: Triple Booting Mac OS X.6 And Windows XP On Macbook Pro 7.1

Aug 4, 2011

I am having problems with triple booting my system. The original Linux OS I started out with was Ubuntu, which I was able to triple boot in the desired configuration (Mac OSX, Unbuntu, and Windows XP) after several tries (the instructions I got weren't quite right). I am now trying to install openSUSE instead of Ubuntu. However, if I install openSUSE before Windows XP, Windows XP erases my installation. If I install it afterwards, it seems to erase Windows XP, as it becomes unbootable thereafter. Perhaps this is because I am following the instructions for installing Ubuntu (format partition 3 as Ext3, mount it as /, and install the grub boot loader inside that partition), without modifying much else. I can't seem to find any good instructions online to tell me what else to do.

the instructions on installing Ubuntu screwed up because it said I had to install Windows XP first, before installing Ubuntu. I found out it was the other way around. Also, while Ubuntu was installed, all three partitions showed up on disk utility (although the Linux partition wasn't a recognized file system). However, every time I've installed openSUSE, where the partition should have been showed up as empty space on disk utility.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Add Windows 7 To Grub For Triple Booting?

Feb 11, 2010

I will like to triple boot Ubuntu, XP and Windows 7, but I already had Ubuntu and XP running on separate HDDs, Ubuntu was installed first, then I installed XP on a separate HDD (with the Ubuntu HDD disconnected), now I did the same for Windows 7, I disconnected all other HDDs (Ubuntu, XP and Data)and installed windows 7 on a separate HDD.When I connected everything back(Ubuntu HDD, XP, Data HDDs and Windows 7 HDD, Windows 7 does not appear on grub boot menu and now Windows 7 does not boot up by it self.

Is there a way to simply add Windows 7 to Grub so I can have all 3 OS's on grub menu?Can grub search HDDs to look for OSs to add to the menu?Funny thing is the XP entry on grub appeared by it self, I've never edited grub to add XP on the booting menu, I was booting directly to XP by going into the BIOS and selecting the XP HDD as my booting drive instead of Ubuntu HDD, somehow XP was added to the grub booting menu.

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General :: Triple Booting And Loading OS X86 From Grub?

Jan 5, 2010

I'm triple booting (windows, ubuntu and osx86) at the moment but in order to load OSX86, I need to pass "cpus=1" to the kernel otherwise it won't load and the PC just reboots. Can I pass this argument from grub or do I have to install osx to a separate hdd and get grub to load the Darwin bootloader on the second hdd and then pass the argument?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Triple Booting On An MBP?

Nov 18, 2010

I'm trying to get a triple-boot setup working with rEFIt and OSX 10.6.5/Win7/Ubuntu 10.10. I'm finally to a point where rEFIt shows a OS X, Windows, and Linux option but the Linux item boots up windows. I just finished booting the live CD and installing grub on the ubuntu partition, but rEFIt is *still* booting windows with the Linux menu entry (and no new entries have appeared since the GRUB reinstall).

Here's what the rEFIt partition inspector is currently showing - can anyone spot any problems? Note: Currently I have 5 partitions (OS X @ 60GB, Win @ 120 GB, Ubuntu (swap) @ 2 GB, Ubuntu @ 58 GB, and a general storage partition (formatted in OS X's HFS).

Code:
Report for internal hard disk

Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 117597143 Mac OS X HFS+

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Triple Booting On Mac?

Dec 24, 2010

I have an Intel iMac that has about 500 GB of unused space and I was wanting to install Ubuntu or Ubuntu studio or any Linux distro on about an extra 50 - 100 GB of space. I currently have the iMac with a windows bootcamp partition on it as well. Is it too late to partition the main partition and install Ubuntu on it without having to erase it and reinstall the Mac OS and Windows on it? Also, I wanted to try Ubuntu studio on a live CD, but when I hold C and bring up the preboot environment then I don't see an option to "try Ubuntu without changing anything".

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Installation :: Triple-booting On Usb Flashdrive?

Oct 15, 2010

Im trying to install Backtrack 4, XBMC live, and ultimate boot cd onto a 4gb usb flash drive and im wondering if my partition layout is acceptable for doing what i want to do, and im wondering how to install them to usb correctly (unetbootin doesnt work)

partition layout
100mb for boot
2.5gb for backtrack 4
700mb for UBCD
700mb for XBMC live

how do i install grub, or another boot loader that will read the adjacent partitions and boot them no matter what pc im on?

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Fedora Installation :: Triple Booting Using Grub 2

Jun 11, 2011

I'm a former Ubuntu user who jumped ship to Linux Mint. I currently am dual booting Windows 7 and Linux Mint 11 using Grub 2. Is there a way to install Fedora last? Much of the reading I have done suggests Fedora needs to be installed before Mint/Ubuntu. By the way, I have searched the forums and it has been suggested to wipe out Ubuntu, install Fedora and then re-install Ubuntu. I would much rather shrink the Windows partition and install Fedora before Mint and update Grub.

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Ubuntu :: Triple-booting Lucid / Vista And Mac OSX?

May 15, 2010

My laptop had Vista, I installed Lucid so I'm dualbooting with GRUB, and I'm wondering if anybody knows of a way to triple-boot with Mac OSX. Thanks in advance.

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Triple Booting On A Macbook Pro?

Nov 18, 2010

I would like to triple boot my Macbook Pro. I don't want to use rEFIt. Although it worked on my iMac, it would randomly not load the OS's sometimes.

1. Is there a way to use Boot Camp?

2. I know how to use Mac with the windows xp bootloader. How can i put Ubuntu in too? I got this thing about taking 512 megabytes of the bootloader grub or something like that but I don't get it.

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OpenSUSE Install :: Failed Attempt At Triple Booting

Apr 6, 2010

I installed from a live CD when it came to selecting the partition I re-sized the partition that Ubuntu was on because it was 68 gigs I shaved off 15 gigs for SUSE. Then I selected this new 15gig partition to install SUSE on, everything went fine with the installation I was tinkering around on SUSE but of course I needed internet access, so I go to get on Ubuntu where I had my file with my network key. I restarted expecting to see the usual GRUB boot-loader screen only now with an added option for SUSE. Instead I see an entirely new layout for the GRUB boot loader and all that is listed is SUSE, Failsafe SUSE, Windows XP, and Floppy. The Windows is my XP install and it loads fine sadly it is actually what I'm using now because it is the only thing left that I have my network key saved so I can get on this forum.

Looking on SUSE I notice that the 50gig partition formerly known as Ubuntu still exists I figure no problem add the partition back on to the boot-loader and I'm good to go. Added it and when I select to load it nothing happens it starts to then reverts back to the OS list. Does anyone A) Know how to resolve this or have any ideas. B) Think I can at least copy files off that 50 gig partition to an external hard drive.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Triple Booting With Snow Leopard?

Oct 25, 2010

Hey there. Currently my Toshiba laptop is dual-booted with windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 and I think I may try and triple-boot it with Snow Leopard. I'm not too familiar at all with hackintoshes so, how should I go about configuring a partition for the OS?

Also: is there any known problems running windows and a mackintosh OS?

If someone can give me some insight here I can also provide my computer's specs.

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Macbook Lost Its Mind Triple Booting?

Feb 1, 2010

Few days back i was searching for triple booting my mac through this ubuntu forum.and i ran into command name bless

it was like : bless /dev/disk0s3 --setboot -- device --verbose

i ran it on the terminal after booting it from a Leopard installation DVD in a hope to run linux on my macbook(macbook white..intel m/c 160gb HD..2 GB RAM) after trying all the stuff and eventually everything has stopped booting neither leopard nor windows. i can see the grub for ubuntu loading up but after selecting the option for ubuntu, ubuntu is also not working.

i was using refit as well.i cannot even boot from my leopard installation dvd..windows that was priorly installed using bootcamp is corrupted too.

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General :: Dual-booting Windows : Why Install Windows First?

Apr 1, 2011

I've read that, when configuring a dual-boot system, you should install Windows first to avoid any issues.Some questions: I'm assuming this has to do with the boot loader so: How is Windows boot loader so different that this matters? If I'm totally off, please explain.Is this the same case with Windows 7 and Windows XP? Depending on question 1 of course: Will installing Windows later on mean that it will definitely not work or just that you might encounter issues later on? Some tutorials are kind of ambiguous about that point.

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General :: Booting To Command Line Instead Of GNOME?

May 24, 2010

I need to be able to boot into the command line, instead of booting automatically into the GUI. I have Red Hat 5, Fedora 12, and also a Suse 11 box that I would like to do this in.

In addition, once at the command line, is there any way to change the command line resolution and refresh rate. I know how to do this in the GUI, but would like to view different resolutions/refresh rates at the command line screen as well.

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Debian Installation :: Booting Debian With Ubuntu/XP Triple / Warning Bootdevice May Be Renamed?

Mar 6, 2010

I had (and still do) a working dual-boot XP/Karmic (GRUB version 1.97 beta4). I shrank the Ubuntu partition and set up partitions and installed Debian 5.04. When I got to the point of installing GRUB, I told Debian to install grub to MBR. On rebooting, Ubuntu was not an option on the NEW (looked different) grub menu.Maybe it was GRUB2? Could boot to either XP or Debian though.

Thought easiest thing was to reinstall Ubuntu since it seems to "see" other OS's more reliably. So I did, and installed GRUB again during its install to MBR. Then, all three were in the GRUB menu (version 1.97 beta4 again), but when tried booting to Debian, got an error (forget the wording), but think it was because the partitions got renumbered when installing Ubuntu.

SO, reinstalled Debian, reformatting the partitions but not deleting them first so the numbering stayed the same. When got to the part for installing GRUB, I told it to skip (I got some kind of error that said "Install failed. This is a fatal error. You will have to boot with an external device..."), hoping now the current GRUB would work.

Now, all three were on the GRUB menu, but when I tried to boot Debian, I got "no such device" and a list of numbers/letters after it. And "press any key to continue", which takes you back to the GRUB menu (version 1.97 beta4, by the way).

O.K., did sudo update-grub in ubuntu and rebooted. Now, Debian 5.04 shows as last entry in GRUB, and choosing it starts a boot, which hangs at "Begin: Waiting for root file system....".

Waiting long enough at the "Waiting for root file system..." hang results in a series of notifications:

WARNING bootdevice may be renamed. Try root=dev/hda3
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
-Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
-Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
-Check root= (did the sytem wait for the right device?)
-Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/sda3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

In Gparted, the partition with Debian root is hdc3, although on the GRUB menu it's listed as /dev/sda3. However, in Gparted the Windows partition is hdc1 and on GRUB it's /dev/sda1, and it boots fine.....

Is my Debian install just borked? Did telling it to skip installing a bootloader (I got some kind of error that said "Install failed. This is a fatal error. You will have to boot with an external device..." ruin it?

If skipping the bootloader install did ruin it, how do you install Debian without borking your current GRUB? That's what happened the first time.

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Ubuntu :: Triple Boot Windows 7 And Moblin?

Jan 5, 2010

I want to triple boot Windows 7, Ubuntu and Moblin/whatever other fast booting OS I come across. At the moment, I've got Windows 7 and Ubuntu there. I can make free space for Moblin, but how would I configure GRUB 2 so it reads it too?

Moblin does have a GRUB, but I'm presuming that its the legacy version, not GRUB 2. How would I get the Ubuntu GRUB back as the main bootloader if that were the case?

This is just planning, there will probably be more question springing to mind later on.

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Installation :: Triple Boot Ubuntu / Windows 7 And Backtrack 4?

Aug 22, 2009

I am attempting to triple boot Ubuntu, Windows 7, and Backtrack 4. Win7 and Ubuntu are both booting and working properly, but after trying a number of configurations for GRUB I cannot boot Backtrack. Everything I attempt seems to come back to one problem and result in the same error: Error 17.

sda contains both my Windows and Ubuntu partitions...

Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x07dccf10

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Software :: Triple Boot Windows 7 Ubuntu Backtrack ?

Sep 8, 2010

I tried triple booting Ubuntu,Backtrack and windows 7.

I have installed ubuntu through wubi but can install seperately also

How should i proceed?

I have been scared of grub and i wanna overcome it.

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Ubuntu :: Triple Boot Windows 7, Kubuntu 8.0.4, Fedora 12?

May 2, 2010

My computer has windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 installed. I install fedora 12 in the /dev/sda8 ext4 partition now. Currently the computer can dual boot windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4. I want to make the computer triple boot. Executing the update-grub command in Kubuntu's Konsole do not detect and add an entry for the Fedora installation in menu.lst.

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General :: Windows - Booting From A Partition?

Aug 16, 2011

I have a system on which multiple operating systems are installed. Let's say:

C: Windows
D: Linux

I have a bootable USB drive, using which I can boot both into to Windows and Linux. I don't want to use this USB drive any more.

Is there any way I can create the same image as that of the USB drive on a new partition (e.g. E:), so that the system will then boot from that partition?

install Grub or some other popular multi-OS selectors; I have to boot from my own partition having the same image as the USB drive.

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General :: Booting Windows 7 With Fedora 15?

Jun 26, 2011

I was not sure which forum to post this in, so will go with general. I am not absolutely new to Linux, but it has been a long, long time, so please assume I am a novice.I recently installed Fedora 15 on the same disk with my Windows 7 installation,and assumed that I would be able to dual boot. But no joy. Here is the pertinent info from fdisk. Guess /dev/sda3 is my Windows partition.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 112454 56196 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 112640 20269055 10078208 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 20269056 523837439 251784192 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 523837440 976773119 226467840 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 523839488 524863487 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 524865536 976773119 225953792 8e Linux LVM

I added the following to /etc/grub.conf

title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1

But Windows 7 will not boot. Obviously I have something wrong, but do not know where to start. So if someone could point me in the right direction I would be humbly grateful.

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General :: Dual Booting Windows 7 And OpenSUSE - 11.3 ?

Feb 28, 2011

My PC is an older model Toshiba Satellite that I've upgraded a bit to handle Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Recently, I joined a CST program at a local college, and there is an entire mod on Linux. I'm at the top of my class, and I aim to stay that way, so I found out what distro they were using, and downloaded openSUSE 11.3. I tried to install it once, and I failed, though I didn't screw up my Windows...much.

I've created an entire 132GB partition, and a 3 or 4GB swap, but I keep getting an error about the boot loader not being on a partition entirely below 128GB. So, I set the partition for 127.98GB, and still with the error.

I'm no slacker when it comes to working with Windows, but when it comes to Linux, of any type, I'm horrible. I need to be able to install the fully functional openSUSE OS alongside my Windows 7 Ultimate, without completely screwing my Windows install up. I can recover, so I'm not afraid to try new things.

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Sep 26, 2010

I have a windows 98 box.I have a slax ISO and a slax TAR. My slax TAR has all the modules I want.

My windows 98 hard drive has only 1 partition and is fully formatted.I have used windows 98 to download my TAR.I want to dual boot slax and windows 98.How do I go about this? So do I have to repartition?

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Mar 24, 2011

I have installed reFIT-based triple boot. Here is the partition scheme:1. GPT Protective Partition (GPT and MFT). Mac OS X (GPT and MFT)3. Windows 7 64-bit C: (GPT and MFT)4. Windows 7 64-bit D: (GPT and MFT)5. Ubuntu 10.04 / (only GPT)6. Ubuntu 10.04 swap (only GPT)Windows only supports MFT and thus sees last two partitions (5 and 6) as unallocated space. Can I somehow make it see these partitions to be able to access files from Ubuntu?P.S. I know this is rather Windows problem, but I don't know any good forums where I can ask that, because mostly on these forums the answer is "Why would you need anything but Windows?".

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General :: Error Cannot Find Disk At [hash-code - Looks Like 0ace5f When Booting OpenSUSE 11.2 GNOME-LIVE (64bit)?

Jan 29, 2010

I am in the process of re-DL-ing the ISO as the checksums didn't match.

Mind you, that was with a shell extension in Win-Lose. Who knows.

Anyway:

I have the ISO (that I had previously) on a USB courtesy of UNetBootIn. All appears well until, quite quickly, I receive an error after the loading process which goes something like:

Code:
Error: cannot find disk at [hash-code - looks like 0ace5f etc etc, is about 12 char's in length.]Something very similar (but not same error I think) happened when I tried to do the same with my OpenSolaris or Fedora install. I.e., gets as far as the very beginning of the loader and then: bork.

At least one of them said "will reboot in 120 secs". Saves me the trouble!

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Oct 9, 2009

I have an old linux partition (fedora 10) that used to start from the MBR. Now I've installed windows 7 on a new drive (overwritning the MBR, autostarting windows). Is there a neat program availible that somehow enables me to choose to boot back into linux?

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Jan 31, 2010

I have just installed Fedora 12 on a 10GB partition separate from the pre-existing Windows XP partition. My problem is that when I turn on my aspire one ao751h it doesn't give me the option to boot Windows XP even though when I mount the partition with XP on it the files are all still there. I think it has something to do with GRUB which I have never dealt with before or the way I set up the partitions when installing Fedora 12. How would I change the start-up screen to allow me to boot from my XP partition as well?

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General :: Multi-booting, Can't Boot Windows 7 Anymore?

Aug 2, 2011

I have Linux Mint and Windows 7 installed on my laptop, and recently tried tinkering with EasyBCD, to use the Windows multi-boot loader instead of grub. Well, that didn't work out too well, because I ended up with the Windows boot loader with two options, Windows 7 and Linux Mint, however the Linux Mint entry just redirected me to grub, which wasn't what I intended.

I tried to put things the way they were, with grub as the only boot loader, and figured I'd do so by setting EasyBCD to skip the multi boot screen and going straight to the Linux Mint entry, which corresponds to grub.Well, now when I boot, I get the grub screen, but if I select the Windows 7 entry, it just redirects me back to grub, so I can't access Windows 7 right now. What can I do to fix this? Can I edit the Windows boot loader from within Linux?

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