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MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - BENQ battery charger

BENQ battery charger — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:11:50 +0200

The big one is about LANGUAGE_CODE: that is the default locale used to display messages in. "utf-8" is not a locale. You will set LANGUAGE_CODE to something like "en" or "de", etc. Since Django doesn’t ship with "en-au" or "en-us" variants, leaving LANGUAGE_CODE alone will give you default English messages (as if it were set to "en"), which isn’t a terrible default.

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - trouble2316

trouble2316 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:06:03 +0200

so i got ubuntu and win 7 on my macbook.and now the sound dont work in win 7.but thay do in lunix .got a older white macbook with 10.4

Review of Thinkpad T61p - Rabid Ron

Rabid Ron — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:31:13 +0200

i have one for almost 2 years and it works very well and i love it

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:13:18 +0100

I have been trying got weeks to be able to triple boot my macbook 5,2 with snow leopard win 7, and ubuntu 9.1. I have osx and win7 working, and after alot of work, I was able to finally install ubuntu, but now after I select it thru refit, it says grub loading, then I have an option to select what I want to run, I choose linux. After this, I get a curser and then a black screen. Nothing happens.
I would appreciate any help or advise. Thank you.

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Jekken

Jekken — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:02:11 +0100

These instructions works brilliantly!! Simple yet functional.
Very good the part about installing grub to the linux partition instead of the mbr. That has been a headache for me. Now Im triple-bootin and doin movie editing in cinelerra in ubuntu 9.1, gaming in MSXPpro and using snow leopard for the rest.

Thanks a bunch!

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - omnicap

omnicap — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:40:28 +0200

h JBi, cool reference!
I have installed windows on it now want to add linux. I think you have a typo in the linux part, it is disk utility instead of disk tool right? could you map out a bit detail how to do this step? i dont want to screw up anything as i have a lot of stuff installed in windows already.
thanks for your help!

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Ster

Ster — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:51 +0200

So , 7 hours later I now have a working mac with 3 OS on it. This tutorial as well as the on provided by Alien ( much simpler to follow ) work.

Also don't forget to sync like twodogs mentioned.
"you must resync the mbr/gtp by rebooting and right clicking until you get to the partitioner in refit. enter 'y' and your done."

The only thing that I can see is that the option to boot into Refit or another OS shows the Windows 7 option along side of the Refit. Is this becuase windows 7 is gpt/efi compatable ?

Thanks for the tutorial guys!

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - KillBush

KillBush — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:59:08 +0100

I've experience that if you upgrade Ubuntu too much it'll start working slow.... Did 7.04->7.10->8.04->8.10, and it slowed to a crawl. Reinstalled - everything is quick again. Despite nvidia drivers....

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Alien

Alien — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:41:08 +0100

Thanks
I installed Fedora10,Windows 7 beta and MacOSX

Further details are in my blog

http://triplebootonmacbook.blogspot...

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - SWmac

SWmac — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:21:28 +0100

i cant split and resize my partions
"Error resizing format" occured.

i used. terminal with follow:
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disks01 400G "JFHS+" "Linux" 33G

any idea ?

Update to Vista SP1 (follow up) Failure 0x800F0826 - Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:47:55 +0100

hey, I know this is a fairly old issue, but if you could either post back, or email me a guide on how to switch to Vista bootloader and then back to grub, please do so. Because I have a dual boot ubuntu vista laptop, and I don't know how grub got on there (probably during the ubuntu install) and therefore I don't know what "the usual tools" are.

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - twodogs

twodogs — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:27:32 +0100

you must resync the mbr/gtp by rebooting and right clicking until you get to the partitioner in refit. enter 'y' and your done.

New laptop: MacBook - Joel Lopes Da Silva

Joel Lopes Da Silva — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:24:43 +0100

I quite agree with what you said about the keymap, at least for the French mac keymap: I chose a US QWERTY keyboard for my brand new MacBook Unibody, which is very similar to the PC QWERTY keymap. In fact, this QWERTY keymap is great for developers and geeks. You can even type accents easily with US International keyboard layout (http://www.brockerhoff.net/usi/).

Concerning the Terminal, some people choose to use iTerm, but I chose to tweak a little bit my Terminal.app configuration. We can have a pretty good result, similar to what we get with Gnome Terminal on Linux. Google will tell you easily how to do it... But if you need it, I can always try to find it again.

See ya JB!

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Mart

Mart — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:31:50 +0100

Indeed cool site! unfortunately I cannot boot into Windows. I get the Grub bootloader and when I chose XP I getan error 12: invalid device requested.Boots great in ubuntu and leopard.menu.lst looks good.using rEFIt of course

any advice please?

thanks

New Machine - JBK

JBK — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:13:06 +0100

La bête marche bien...

Moi, j'ai arrêté de bosser sur Cygwin, je fais que du MSys... Trop marre de Cygwin.

New Machine - thorcyar

thorcyar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:06:21 +0100

bonne chance en tout cas pour faire marcher la bête

vais aller lire les articles pour compiler sur hardy, je vais exploser une durit à essayer de compiler sous cygwin ... (même pseudo sur le fofo officiel .... d'ailleurs je devrais peut être écrire en anglais pour avoir 1 chouilla plus de suggestions d'aides :D)

New Machine - JBK

JBK — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:11:46 +0100

@ Je sais, mais le souci vient d'un des drivers de mon chipset (après passage dans WinDbg)

New Machine - thorcyar

thorcyar — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:36:41 +0100

je pense que ton PC a un souci si tu as des BSOD tous les 2 jours ... j'ai vista 64, 4gig de mémoire et aucun écran bleu (sauf si je branche un 2eme écran, ma carte graphique étant malade mais osef).

par contre j'avais une carte mère asus (p5w-dh) qui me faisait de plus en plus de bsod sur ce même vista 64, 4gigs de mémoire ..... j'ai cru qu'elle me grillait les barettes mémoires (en changeant ça allait mieux) mais en fait c'était le contrôleur mémoire qui mourrait lentement ... méfiance pour ta nouvelle mobo ...

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - JBK

JBK — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:55:12 +0100

@Dave: those machines are not my machines, usually, so they don't have many services, however, I had 0 problems with Apache and MySQL.

For my servers, I still prefer Debian Stable...

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - Dave

Dave — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:13:59 +0100

@Sam - KUbuntu is just Ubuntu with KDE as the default window manager. It will suffer from the same issues as the regular ubuntu distro.

And FYI, if you want to have the functionality of KUbuntu in Ubuntu, type 'apt-get install kde' and voila.

However, this thread is more about upgrading between releases of Ubuntu rather than the GUI that's used.

@JBK - what about non-GUI apps like apache, mysql, etc. They were okay or did you have to mess with them also?