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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.

VLC 1.0.3 is out! - JBK

JBK — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:36:42 +0100

@brazz: try to deactivate x264 or recompile it with pic enabled. And come on #vlmc channel to talk.

VLC 1.0.3 is out! - brazz

brazz — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:12:02 +0100

A very good year!
But I have a little problem. I wish work on VLMC, so I must compile both vlc and vlmc.
I run on ubuntu karmic 9.10
I have cloned vlc from vlc.git && vlmc from vlmc.git
I must disable some options because libraries not found, so, after I configure with

./configure —prefix=/usr —enable-snapshot —enable-debug —enable-dbus-control —enable-musicbrainz —enable-shared-libvlc —enable-mozilla —enable-lirc —enable-live555 —with-live555-tree=extras/live —enable-x264 —with-x264-tree=extras/x264-trunk —enable-shout —enable-taglib —enable-v4l —enable-cddax —enable-dvb —enable-vcdx —enable-realrtsp —enable-xvmc —enable-svg —enable-dvdread —enable-dc1394 —enable-dv —enable-theora —enable-faad —enable-twolame —enable-real —enable-flac —enable-tremor —with-ffmpeg-mp3lame —with-ffmpeg-faac —disable-quicktime —enable-dirac —enable-skins2 —enable-qt4 —enable-ncurses —enable-aa —enable-caca —enable-esd —disable-portaudio —enable-jack —enable-xosd —enable-galaktos —disable-goom —enable-ggi —disable-cddax —disable-vcdx

it seems good, but when I make, I obtain:

CCLD libx264_plugin.la
/usr/bin/ld: /home/pierre/vlc/extras/x264-trunk/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/pierre/vlc/extras/x264-trunk/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I am desapointed, what is the trick?

VLC 1.0.3 is out! - JBK

JBK — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:05:31 +0100

@petr: maybe for 1.1

VLC 1.0.3 is out! - JBK

JBK — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:05:15 +0100

@Fred: what file? Can you link to it?

VLC 1.0.3 is out! - Fred

Fred — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:23:56 +0100

In general VLC is a very good product. BUT! With version 1.0.2 it was possible zu jump foreward und backward in a video clip. With wersion 1.0.3 this is no konger possible, Why?

VLC 1.0.3 is out! - petr

petr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:28:59 +0100

Is there any change that VLC will be available also for Windows mobile 6.5 and would be able play MPEG2?

Currently I have to convert my recordings from MPEG2 to AVI or WMV. Thats time consuming
THX Petr

VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st! - Johnothan

Johnothan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:57:09 +0100

No working 64 bit available yet. I have been trying with the source with no luck yet. Seems 64 bit adds a new dimension of problems. Maybe soon we will see one.

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!

VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st! - Terry

Terry — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:51:05 +0200

Dialog for advanced video filters (brightness, color saturation, etc) does not show in VLC 1.0.1 on Windows xp 32 bit

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!

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.

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

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

jahromico — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:24:34 -0700

my macbook not active keyboard

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - John B.

John B. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:30:43 -0700

Brilliant site! I have already installed XP using bootcamp and installed rEFIt today while just playing around. A couple of months ago I created a Ubuntu disc and played around with it on a desktop, but would like to learn more Linux on my Macbook. Now for the questions--
1)What is the procedure for installing Ubuntu after the above described procedure?
2)In the following passage you wrote---
During the install I deleted the new partition and added two in place:

* One root partition /

* One swap 1GB

* Finish everything, reboot

You should be careful to install your grub in your linux partition and NOT in the MBR, to let reFit do it correctly.---
will this all be self evident? I know the definition of a grub, but can you be a bit more descriptive on this step?
3)Lastly, to install the drivers for the wireless modem, do you simply type all of that code in the terminal on Ubuntu?

Thanks a bunch--I hope to be able to learn a hundreth of what you know about Linux!!

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

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:04:41 -0700

Hi, I am having a little trouble understanding how to do this. I have a 13" Macbook running leopard and have tried to install windows xp pro sp2 using the bootcamp program but after windows has installed and my mac reboots I try to boot into windows and it comes up with error some file missing or something. I had figured out how to get around this by installing a fresh tiger and then running bootcamp on that and windows worked fine. All had to do was update into leopard and the windows partition remained, but now I want to install ubuntu and windows??

Matt

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

JBK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:58:19 -0700

I would suggest that you install Linux but install grub on your linux partition and NOT in your MBR.

Mark this partition as active and reFit should play it fine.

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Andrew Pennebaker

Andrew Pennebaker — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:37:01 -0700

Originally, I had Tiger. Then I installed rEFIt and Ubuntu Linux. I decided one day to try to add Windows Vista. Eventually, it installed. However, rEFIt no longer displayed Linux as an option to boot to. When I synced the GPT and MBR tables, Vista would no longer boot. Both Linux and Vista became unusable, and every tool (gparted, etc.) showed Vista as empty space, like it had never existed.

Now, I've wiped and installed Leopard, then successfully installed Vista with Boot Camp. Currently, I switch between them with the native Mac bootloader (pressing the Option key). I would like to turn this into a triple boot by installing Ubuntu, but I'm not sure how I should setup GRUB, etc. I don't want to use rEFIT for the danger it poses to my partitioning tables. Is it possible for the Mac native bootloader to choose between three partitions for booting?

My second preferred option is to overwrite the MBR with GRUB to choose between Linux and Vista, which I have done several times on other computers. But I'm afraid this might mess up the whole Boot Camp situation. I guess the safest option is to use Windows' NTLDR to load Linux.

What do you suggest?