Help needed in configuring triple boot on macbookpro

John K Masters johnmasters at me.com
Tue Aug 26 19:52:33 UTC 2008


On 13:25 Tue 26 Aug     , Karl Larsen wrote:
> John K Masters wrote:
> > On 09:02 Tue 26 Aug     , arun chakrapani rao wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Gurus,
> >> I have a mackbookpro with 10.5.2 MAC OSX installed in it.
> >> I am trying to install xp and ubuntu both on this system but in vain.
> >> I went through the doc(Preparing to Install Ubuntu alongside OS X & Windows XP (Triple Boot) )of ubuntu in  
> >
> > You may want to have a look at this page:
> > http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp
> >
> > It can be done but it is not for the faint hearted.
> >
> >   
>     I looked and it is terrible. I do not know how to boot up a MAC, but 
> there must be a simple way. Even if you have to boot another boot system 
> :-)
> 
> Karl
> 
There is no simple way. If you can persuade Microsoft to ditch the
legacy MBR system it uses and adopt the new EFI standard then triple
booting will become easier on Macs. It's not going to happen.

-- 
Regards, John




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