Ubuntu :: Triple Boot With Opensuse 11.2?
Apr 5, 2010i'm currently dual booting windows xp and ubuntu with ubuntu installed first. is it possible to triple boot with opensuse 11.2?
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OpenSUSE Install :: Boot From An External Drive / Set Up A Triple Boot?
Jan 4, 2010does anyone know that if i can boot from an external hard drive with "openSUSE" installed on it?
how about FireWire, will it work?
i'm trying to set up a triple boot for me newly bought iMac.
OpenSUSE Install :: Triple Boot With Win 7 And Ubuntu 10.10
Feb 7, 2011I Currently have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on dual boot system, but I want to change that. I want Win 7, openSuse 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.10 on a triple Boot. I have a 500gb sata hdd. The Rough Plan was to 150gb for Win7, 150 for openSuse 11.3 (50gb for / and 100gb for /home) and same again for Ubuntu 10.10 and 50gb for Swap. I am using entire drive for 3 Operating Systems and Swap. I have read a few guides and they all say install win7 then opensuse then ubuntu, and thats fine but none say anything about partitioning. And one main problem is cant split into more than 4 different partitions.
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Nov 30, 2009i'm trying to make my imac capable of triple boot.the software i use are:
mac os x 10.5.8
win vista sp1
linux opensuse 11.2
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OpenSUSE Install :: 11.04 On MacBook Pro To Do Triple Boot?
Mar 21, 2011I would like to install Opensuse 11.4 on my macbook pro to do a triple boot. I found lots of tutorial on Ubuntu but not on Opensuse, and this facility is the same way?
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Jun 25, 2010I'm trying to Triple Boot my MacBook pro(Mac OS, Win 7, and opesSUSE).I installed Mac, Win, and openSUSE last.I have a few questions here:
1. Do I use GRUB or LILO?
2. Do I select "Root Partition in sda3"?
3. After installing the openSUSE, the rEFIt Menu become weird:
I enter Win selectioon, and then there's Grub selection again.
4. I enter Linux selection, and there's also Windows selection at the Grub.
5. Is my swap files working?
SUSE / Novell :: OpenSUSE With Triple Boot XP/Vista Partitions?
Apr 5, 2010On installing a dual boot XP/OS 11.2 on a 40GB HDD, I had no problems with the partitioning, but now I have installed XP (15GB) and Vista (20GB), the OS 11.2 setup insists on shrinking the Vista partition to 15GB and does not allow me to change this.Have tried going into 'Create Partition Setup' and 'Custom Partition Setup' but can't seem to get Vista back to its original size
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Triple-Boot / Saying Can't Boot And Takes To A Startup Recovery?
Sep 10, 2010I have a Computer, It came with Windows 7 64bit on it. I installed Ubuntu through WUBI. I used the Windows Disk Management program to resize my HDD. I shrunk the main drive and created a 20 gig free space. I installed WindowsXP on this 20g space. I had to change from AHCI to ATA. I started my new XP installation. As I should have expected my the screen that let me pick between Windows 7 and Ubuntu was gone, and it just said XP. Well thats cool. I get in XP use bcdeasy and use the install Win7 to mbr. So I restarted. Great I now I have Ubuntu and Win7... but no XP. So i think, okay, ill boot into Ubuntu, use the update grub command and XP will be there, so i do it and restart. No XP, So i try to boot into Win7 and see if i can do something in there.. No luck it says it can't boot and takes me to a startup recovery thing. Which, as Windows recovery things tend to do, doesn't find anything wrong. So I have Ubuntu now, which is great, but I do need Windows.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Grub Got Messed Up On Triple-boot System, Can't Boot Anything?
May 10, 2011I'm currently on a work trip with my Asus G72GX laptop for non-work use (I'm posting from my work laptop). Yesterday, I accidentally booted into my laptop's recovery partition (from the Grub2 bootloader). Before I realized that that's what was happening, it booted into some kind of recovery program which ended up in an error. I restarted the laptop and couldn't get into the bootloader anymore. Now, the only thing that comes up is an error -- "error: unknown filesystem." Below that, it gives me the "grub rescue>" prompt. Most of the commands that sites list for grub rescue only return "Unknown command". ls works and lists all of my partitions: (hd0), (hd0,msdos, (hd0,msdos7), etc. down to msdos1. When I "ls (hd0,msdos" (etc, etc) it says "error: unknown filesystem."
I then started looking into booting from a Live Ubuntu USB drive. I've tried 11.04 and 10.04 now and they both do the same thing. I put them on an 8GB flash drive (only 1 at any given time) using Universal USB Installer and was able to get to the Ubuntu menu (Run Ubuntu from this USB, Install Ubuntu on a Hard Disk, etc.) If I try either "Run Ubuntu" or "Install Ubuntu", the screen flickers and comes right back to that menu.BTW, my 3 operating systems are: Windows 7 HP 64-bit, Mythbuntu 10.10 64-bit, and Windows XP 32-bit. Laptop hardware: Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53GHz, 6GB RAM, Nvidia 8800 GTX video card.
Ubuntu :: Triple Boot 9.10 / XP And Win7?
Jan 19, 2010I've decided to triple boot on my system, but I want to make sure it's feasible. Here's my set-up: I've got two 500GB hard drives, and a good amount of power to handle the OS's. I want to set-up Ubuntu as my main OS on a single hard drive. Then, I want to put XP and 7 on the second hard drive, side-by-side. Obviously, I would then want a bootloader to display an option at system start to pick either one.
The reason I want all these is for gaming mainly, and Netflix. I've got old games that only work on XP, and some newer games are coming out that I'm sure will run better on Windows 7 (Starcraft 2 is going to be amazing!). I found this documentation: [URL]. It's obviously for dual booting Windows and Ubuntu. My question is, can I triple boot Ubuntu, Windows XP and Windows 7? If so (and I'm positive I can) are there any good resources for the process?
Ubuntu Installation :: Triple Boot With XP F11 Encrypted
Jan 3, 2010I have XP on sda1, Fedora 11 encrypted on sdb 1 (boot) and sdb 2 (root), I would like Ubuntu on sdc 1 (boot) sdc 2 (root). However when I tried to install from the cd the partition manager does not see my Fedora as an OS (I assume because it is encrypted). So my question is how can I achieve my triple boot without having to have my Fedora unencrypted. I want it encrypted for a reason.
Also I cancelled the installation for Ubuntu and it reverted to a Live cd and I tried to mount my Fedora encrypted drive. Ubuntu asked for the pass and when I entered it I get an error saying it cannot be mounted because it is not a mountable file system. This is not good for me because I would like to be able to access all my hdd's from both distro's.
Ubuntu :: Triple Boot Windows 7 And Moblin?
Jan 5, 2010I 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.
Ubuntu Installation :: Sorting Out A Triple Boot?
Feb 5, 2010For completeness here's the history that got me to this point:
Stage 1
/dev/sda - disk with XP OS, set to be first boot disk in BIOS
/dev/sdb - a small data disk to supplement sda
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Ubuntu :: Triple-boot OSX / Vista And Lucid?
Aug 8, 2010How would I install OSX on my PC so it would still boot to GRUB? And how would I add OSX to GRUB? Or should I use some other bootloader?
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Sep 11, 2010I have (only bc i have to) windows vista, also Ubuntu 10.04 on the same drive, and dual-booting is no issue at all. But after I installed Mandriva 2010 to try to triple boot, i couldn't find Ubuntu anymore so I got rid of mandriva, and grub was messed up bc I deleted all mandriva partitions. So then I installed Xubuntu 9.10 (because it is a quick install) to recover grub, and with Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and vista, Grub sees all three OSes no problem. So what would I have to do to make Grub work this way when I install Mandriva?
View 5 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: HDD Partition Setup For Triple Boot?
Nov 1, 2010I've looked everywhere for a satisfactory answer, to no avail. I wish to triple boot xp/98/ubuntu 10.10. Is this an appropriate HDD setup? (it looks like this in partition magic pro srever 8.05)
*:SYSTEM........ NTFS......... primary ..........(for xp)
C:WIN98......... fat32 .........primary,active (for win98 )
*:UBUNTU....... LinuxExt3 ...Primary ..........(for Maverick Meerkat)
.........* Extended
............. *:SWAPSPACE2.... Linux swap .....logical
. ...........D: DATA................. fat32............. logical (for all things backup)
There is nothing on any of the drives at this point. (I am submitting this on a crappy 233mhz win95 laptop)
Here's the information i've gathered so far... Install in the following order: 98, XP, Ubuntu XP's drive label MUST be "SYSTEM" (I think?) Installing multiple os's is easy (i've read) if you hide unused partitions during install (ie. if installing XP, hide C:WIN98 and *:UBUNTU partitions) but i can only do this with FAT formats, and if i do that, the dirve letter changes, which is a problem (i suppose i could manually hide/unhide, and set active the partition I want at every boot-up....(Damn))
And here's a couple more questions SHOULD I make everything fat32? do they have to be primary to boot? ('98 on an inactive partition won't load) Once they are all installed... where do i put grub? Do i put it in first? Also, I deleted my dell utility partition to do this, is that a problem? (LOL, I have NO idea what I'm doing...Fck)
Like i said, finding information about the partition setup (logical/primary) is damn near impossible. Even if it's just a "Ya that'll do for a setup"
I'm gonna keep experimenting, since there's no longer anything to lose on my HDD, and i'll report back any improvements I come across
Ubuntu Installation :: Triple Boot Loading With 10.04
Dec 21, 2010I want to install a triple boot load consisting of Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04, and Fedora.My question is, if I install Windows 7, followed by another distro, like Fedora, and then install Ubuntu 10.04, will the Ubuntu GRUB 2 menu display all three options?I know if I install Ubuntu and then install Fedora, I have to go through some heavy gyrations to get everything to show in the load menu, so it seems easier to install Ubuntu last.
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Feb 22, 2011I wondered whether it is possible to add a PC-BSD system to my existing OS X 10.6.6 + UBUNTU (using rEFIt)
How to resize the partition with linux and installing PC-BSD 8.1 on my Mac?
First I installed OS X and updated it to 10.6.6
Then I created a BOOTCAMP-Partition using the bootcamp-utility
Then I installed rEFIt
Then I installed UBUNTU (and the dual-boot works very well)
Now I want to add a PC-BSD
May I change the partition-size of the UBUNTU-partition without destroying MBR oder rEFIt? If yes, will rEFIt recognize the newly installed PC-BSD?
Its sort of OSX+Multi-Linux. There is a wonderful page at [url] but unfortunately the section is not updated yet.
General :: How To Triple Boot XP, Ubuntu, RHEL 5.4
Aug 14, 2010trying to triple boot XP, Ubuntu, RHEL 5.4but unable to bring every thing in boot loader.* It loads XP with Ubuntu successfully or XP with RHEL 5.4 but not all the three.* when I install XP followed by Ubuntu then RHEL, I am not having a primary partition to install RHEL. It stops there.* I tried to copy the kernel path of ubuntu from grub.cfg in ubuntu and tried to edit in grub.conf file of rhel and added an entry but it displays in boot loader [start screen where it displays all OS listed] but unable to boot ubuntu [unable to load ubuntu kernel].Current situation reformat all Linux partitions and installed Ubuntu with below partition. installed successful. But rhel not installed due to error.Partition table:
/dev/hda1 > XP [primary patition][can boot and work]
/dev/hda2 > Ubuntu [primary patition][can boot and work]
/dev/hda5 > swap for ubuntu [secondary partition]
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General :: How To Triple Boot XP / Win7 & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Jun 22, 2010So I just bought a 500GB HDD, now I want to use these three OS on my PC. I know how to dual-boot XP with 7, but i'm new to linux. BTW, would i need 3 partitions for these 3 Operating systems (1 for each) or can i install Ubuntu in one of those two windows partitions? (eg. C: XP&ubuntu, D: 7). What would be the easiest & fastest to do? And how to do it?
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Jan 2, 2011I have been running dual boot Windows XP and Slackware for years but I recently changed things up a bit a "broke" something.
Windows XP is on it's own 250GB HDD. I installed Windows 7 on a seperate 74GB HDD but it appears that it installed the bootloader over top of the Windows XP bootloader on the 250GB HDD. Both OS's booted fine and that point. Then I partitioned the 250GB HDD into 150GB and 100GB leaving me 100GB to install Ubuntu. I told Ubuntu to stick it's bootloader on the 250GB HDD thinking everything would work like magic although there appears to have been a little bit too much magic. Normally Slackware will allow you to manually edit your Lilo config file during installation and add all your OS's but this didn't happen with the Ubuntu install.
After the install there were 5 options in the bootloader menu (at this point I am not even sure what bootloader it was using). Ubuntu, Ubuntu ("safe mode?"), memtest, more memtest, and Windows 7 (bootloader? it wasn't just called windows 7 but something like Windows 7 bootloader, I have only booted once and I am writing this from Ubuntu right now). I tried selecting Windows 7 at that point hoping that it would bring me to the Windows bootloader which would allow me to select from Windows 7 and Windows XP but the screen just went blank for a second or two and then sent me back to the same screen I was just at.
So a quick Google of Ubuntu bootloader led me to believe I was using Grub and I needed to look for the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and edit that but the file wasn't there. Then I tried running grub but I was informed it wasn't even installed. I thought maybe I would have better luck with Lilo but that wasn't installed either. So I installed Lilo and ran liloconfig but I was told that fstab gave a UUID that led Lilo to belive I wasn't using an ordinary block device and I should go fix that and come back afterwards. In fact the only thing in fstab was the ext4 partition with Ubuntu and the swap partition even though I have 4 sata drives installed with 6 separate partitions.
At this point I am pretty lost. Most of my Linux work is done in Parallels now on a Macbook so I haven't had to mess with the bootloader in years and when I did it was all on Slackware which to me is set up quite a bit differently than Ubuntu. I would be pretty sick if I screwed up and took out 3 OS's with it.
How Grub will handle booting both Windows OS's when Windows appears to be doing it with one bootloader.
Software :: Triple Boot On Mac?
Jul 20, 2010how to install Ubuntu 10.04 sixpac live cd released with July 2010 issue of Linux Magazine, on either mac triple boot or thru Virtual box. I already have Windows 7 on bootcamp partition of my macbook pro.
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Nov 28, 2010I install Win7 firstthen I install Ubuntu in a separate partition it run ok with grublast i install fedora in a separate partition it run with 2 choice win7 and fedoraI use hiren boot cd to boot with mini linux and run grub 2.0 application on it.i set up and run i only use Win7 and booot linux error.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Set Up A Triple Boot With Fedora 12 And Mint 8?
Jan 14, 2010I had Win7 installed on my Laptop and wanted to set up a triple boot with Fedora 12 and Mint 8.So I installed Fedora 12 and it worked loading grub and offering Win7 and Fedora as choices.Then I installed Mint hoping for the Grub2 to recognise Fedora and set up the triple boot but it didn't and I can now only boot into Win7 or Mint.sudo update-grub doesn't help.How can I configure grub2 to offer me all three OSs?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu / Apple :: Installing Win7 To Triple Boot Mac Pro?
Feb 5, 2010I am using Mac Pro with MacOS + Vista 32bit +Ubuntu installed. Using rEFIT with lilo bootloader. I want remove Vista 32bit and install 64bit Windows 7 instead. I am afraid of trying to install Win7, because it may delete bootloader. How can I remove Vista and do a clean install of Win7 to my Mac Pro without losing ubuntu and MacOs?
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Mar 14, 2010I recently installed ubuntu onto a pc running MS vista. Then I somehow managed to install a second instance of ubuntu. Both of these were on the (drive e Then because of HDD problems, I had to reformat my original drive with MS Vista (drive C). Because of installation problems with ms vista - I ended up installing it onto the drive e: also. But now I can no longer load ubuntu because the "GRUB" loader is missing. So my questions are:
1: How can I restore the "GRUB" loader? So I can access ubuntu again
2: How can I remove/uninstall the second ubuntu installation?
3: Is it possible to have a triple boot system with ms vista / ubuntu 32-bit / ubuntu 64-bit?
Ubuntu Installation :: Upgrading From FC To Karmic On Triple Boot Mac
Mar 14, 2010I have a Core 2 Duo iMac that I had set up for triple boot using Fedora Core (probably FC8 )and GRUB, Windows XP Pro, and Mac OS X v10.5. Some time ago, I had to blow out and reinstall my Windows installation because it had developed errors, but this also blew out my GRUB, leaving the Fedora install non-bootable. Since I never really used FC on this machine much, I didn't worry.
Lately, I've acquired an hp Mini 110, on which I'm running Linux Mint 8 (Helena), and I'd like to upgrade my FC partition on the iMac to Karmic, but when I run the installer, it won't let me use all of the existing Linux partition, instead wanting to resize it to accommodate both FC and Ubuntu.
How do I make the installer simply replace FC with Karmic, using the entire existing partition? I'm sure earlier versions of Linux that I've used had a simple "erase all Linux partitions and install" option, and the "Manual" option doesn't appear to read the existing partition information (I was too afraid to go any further).
I ended up quitting the installer, which put me into the Live CD environment, where I used the File Browser to "Format..." the Linux partition, but when I went back to the installer, I ran into the same problem, and it didn't seem to matter if I unmounted the existing partitions or not.
Ubuntu Installation :: Setting Up Triple Boot Machine?
Apr 29, 2010I i'm having trouble setting up my triple boot machine. I have Windows 7 and Mac OSX on two seperatate hard disks and they are dual booting fine with the chameleon bootloader. I just attempted to install ubuntu from liveCD which i downloaded and burned from the ubuntu website. During intallation i the option to "install side by side to windows" and resized the windows partition to make room for Ubuntu(250GB of 1TB), i also selected the option to disable the GRUB bootloader because i want to use chameleon. The installer completed successfully and the computer rebooted but chameleon, Mac OSX or windows (my partition for windows is 250GB smaller) won't recognize the partition.
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May 12, 2010I just upgraded to lucid lynx from karmic koala 64 bit. During the upgrade it complained about grub not working. It said if i didnt know what drive to mount i had to select all of them, which i did. Did i now damage my triple boot ? i had also win7/ winxp on my hd, but altho it says windows 7 in the grub menu if i select it nothing happens just a cursor blinking. I can get into Ubuntu okay. I looked at the forum here and saw someone being advised to get Bootinfo script.
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Ubuntu :: Backup And Restore A Triple-boot System?
Jun 14, 2010best/simplest way to back up my triple-boot machine, which has Karmic 32-bit, Karmic 64-bit and Windows 7 (64-bit) installed on 3 equal slices of the internal 1TB disk. There are a total of 6 partitions (1 primary+1 logical partition each for the two Karmic, and 2 primary partitions for Win7), and I would like to back it up on an external disk such that the whole system can be restored as-is by writing over the disk. I guess this means correctly backing up data+partition table+MBR, and I would also prefer backing up only the used portion of the disk (rather than creating a 1TB mostly empty image file).
To my knowledge the only way to reliably do this is with "dd" command, but I have never used it ("fsarchiver" seems to be the next best option, but it cannot back up MBR yet; and "partimage" does not have ext4 support). As described here and here, I should run the following commands from a live boot:
1) To back up entire data in compressed format (using 1MB read block to speed up the process):
dd if=/dev/sda bs=1MB | gzip > /backup/image.gz
2) To back up MBR+partition table (stored within the first 512 bytes of the disk):
dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 of=/backup/image.mbr
3) To restore data:
gzip -dc /backup/image.gz | dd of=/dev/sda
4) To restore MBR+partition table:
dd if=/backup/image.mbr of=/dev/sda