Quad Boot

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 21:11:43

Finally I succeded to have four operating systems on my comp (one physical hard drive): Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mandrake Linux and Mac OSx86.
Following is how I did it:
1. I started with Mac OSx86 (Tiger) installation DVD and partitioned hard drive creating two partitions, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and free space. Installation DVD will set Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition as primary. After that I got out of installation process.
I used Windows XP partition utility as well as Partition Magic, but final and succesful version was as above
2. Next, I input XP installation CD and partitioned free space into two more partitions: ntfs and free space. Ntfs partition created by XP CD will be primary and active by default
3. I installed Windows XP normally on ntfs partition.
4. I installed Mac OSx86 on Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition
5. I used Mandrake Linux CDs and partitioned remaining free space into three partitions, one as logical extended (ext2), one as swap and third as free space.
6. I installed mandrake Linux normally.
7. Once in Mandrake Linux I setup GRUB to be in root partition and not in boot sector.
8. I used Vista DVD to do one more partitioning, one partition for Vista and another as free space (for files to be used by all operating systems).
9. I installed Vista normally.
10. Once in Vista I downloaded EasyBCD and used it to create entries for Linux (checking "GRUB isn't installed to the boot sector" is important) and Mac (XP was already recognized)
At this point I could boot into three out of four operating systems. Mac was still problematic.

11. I put tboot into D drive (same drive/folder as ntldr)
12. I opened command prompt as administrator and edited Windows Boot Manager to refer to tboot file: bcdedit /set {identifier} path \tboot
At the end my BCDEDIT looked like this:
C:\Windows\system32>BCDEDIT /enum active

Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=D:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {66860f63-9efc-11dc-be84-d1e488ed0935}
displayorder {ntldr}
{current}
{82fd26c7-9f58-11dc-8c12-00110975edcd}
{82fd26c9-9f58-11dc-8c12-00110975edcd}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Windows XP

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {46a7a7fb-a04b-11dc-9e74-ffd6afc80534}
nx OptIn

Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {82fd26c7-9f58-11dc-8c12-00110975edcd}
device boot
path \NST\nst_grub.mbr
description Mandrake Linux

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {82fd26c9-9f58-11dc-8c12-00110975edcd}
device boot
path \tboot
description Mac OS

Comments

Vedo     Wednesday, October 22, 2008 15:55:34
Broj 5, koji je VRLO vazan, ne fercera tek tako jednostavno kod Bunte (ubuntu-a). Nije tek tako lako promjeniti boot loader. Jedan od nacina od nacina je da se downloada startup manager i tu izmejeni.
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Dado     Friday, October 24, 2008 15:36:21
Nije li linux sav od fajlova satkan? O besjednice sto ubuntu blatis, zaviri pod haubu i pronadji srecu. Dado, 10-14
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ema     Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:56:08
jebote ko da pises na voodu jeziku...covjece,zali boze 5 minuta koje potrosih na ovaj post...
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