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How To Triple boot your Mac with Windows 7, Ubuntu & Mac OS X

If you own a Mac machine and you don’t want to restrict your machine to only boot Mac OS X ? Well you might sometimes want to interfere with Windows environment or say Ubuntu, then what would you do in such as case ? Obviously you would have a different machine to run Windows, but is is possible ...

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Now That's Awesome!!

Ok, now over the weekend I bought myself a new laptop runnign Windows 8. Well actually I bought two but I don't wanna get into that. All that matters is I finally got one that recognizes more than one monitor at a time.

That wasn't the worst of my problems tho. Spo those that know me I don't like Windows as and operating system. I use Linux. I don't care what flavor as long as I got a unix bash terminal and a /home/leo folder. Give me that I'm happy. What doesn't make me happy is how Windows has such a weak immune system and catches more viruses than a hooker on welfare day that computers switched to secure booting and UEFI. 

Why do I care about this if I don't even use Windows?

Cuz it makes if fuckin almost impossible to dual boot Linux and Windows 8! Never mind triple booting Ubuntu, Arch Linux AND Windows 8! Before u open ur yaps, I have to have Windows on my machine for Adobe Illistrator/Photoshop and Visual Studio for school. If it wasn't for that Iwoulda just wiped it clean and went to town.

Needless to say my joy of getting a new Samsung laptop and 24" monitor to go with my 17" Dell monitor (which now looks tiny lol) was short lived and my weekend was spent on Youtube, Ask Ubuntu and the Arch Wiki trying to get Linux on my shiny new laptop.

So I finally got the two flavors of linux installed and booting off the same grub boot menu. Was going to go for KDE now that I got a machine that can handle it but I like the idea of a tiling window manager for programming. Instead, I'm trying out this sick window manager, actually it's Awesome (really, that's the name of it lol).

So now, with the Awesome Window Manager and Vim I will soon b able to throw away my mouse for good! Bwahahaha. There's even a plugin for Firefox that lets uses "Vim like" key bindings so I don't even need to use my mouse for surfing the web lol

Now I just need to get Windows 8 to run with out having to go into my UEFI settings and changing the boot order. If any one knows how I could add Windows 8 to my grub bootloader I would b greatly appreciated.

All in all a productive day. First day of full time classes tomorrow. Oh yayer!

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Managed to successfully install Windows 8 alongside Windows 7 in a dual-boot environment.

Actually super stoked that I managed to do that without screwing up anything on my computer.

Now onto maybe triple booting 7, 8, and Mac OS X?

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Triple Macbook Pro (Mac+Win+Linux)

Alright, so I begin knowing that their are many such posts out their such as this. This however, is what worked for me, and so i thought i would share. My experience was mostly trial and error and my solution came from researching other fixes. For this guide I am assuming that you know your way around your mac fairly well. Although if i have posted this in the wrong place, i apologize. But i digress... My hardware: MacbookPro8,2 The problems

Lion recovery partition getting in the way

Windows not booting after installing Ubuntu…. "missing operating system"

refit not installing properly

The solution: download and install got fdisk for mac... http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ download rEFIt... http://refit.sourceforge.net/ MAKE BACKUP: once gdisk is installed go to terminal and type 'sudo disk /dev/disk0'. it will take you to the disk menu. once there enter 'b', and type a file name (it will automatically save in your home folder). once finish quit by entering 'q' installing refit... many people have difficulty installing refit. the trick is to install it manually (check out refit's documentation). reboot and you should see your new loader. partition your disk... you need to create two new partitions for windows and linux (disk utility works just fine). format both of them to FAT. install windows 7.... in the installer format the disk you want windows on as ntfs and finish through installation (note:your computer will reboot several times and each time it does make sure to boot from your new windows partition under refit). Once its all finished go ahead and install your boot camp drivers. your eject key won't work yet so you'll have to eject the setup disk from the control panel. install ubuntu... for this you are going to need both a live usb and live cd. create live usb: http://www.nightlion.net/guides/2011...line-diskutil/ and for the live cd simply burn the .iso with disk utility. with both the cd and the usb inserted in the computer, reboot and hold down the 'C' key on restart. It may take several minutes but you should get to the installer. In the installer select the advanced installation option. format and use the partition you set aside for linux. set the mount point to '/' and *install the grub boot loader to whatever partition your installing linux on. It will give you a warning about not having a swap partition, but you can ignore this for now and create a swap file inside your ubuntu later. install and reboot back into lion At the moment you now have a screwed up hybrid mbr table (this is because most likely your lion recovery disk uses one of your precious mbr slots) in order to fix this we are going to create a new hybrid mbr table. i have attached screenshots of this process. reopen terminal and again type 'sudo gdisk /dev/disk0'. this time enter 'r'. and then 'p'. this will print your partitions. now you need to create your hmbr so type 'h'. it will now ask you for the partitions you wish to enter. referring to the printed partition list, add your lion, windows and linux partitions. (in my case 2 4 5). next it will ask you to place efi partition first, select 'y'. now it will ask you for the mbr hex code for each partition. the codes you want are 'AF' for lion, '07' for windows, and '83' for linux. don't set any of the bootable flags. once finish enter 'w' to write these changes to the disks. You can also enter 'q' if you want to quit without saving changes. reboot and now you should be able to boot into each of your OSes.  Tip: if for some reason it doesn't work and you want to restore your gpt table, simply go back to gdisk, enter 'r', enter 'l', and then type your backup filename. reboot and you'll no longer have you win or linux partitions but your gpt will gpt table will be back to normal. i hope this helps any and all of you. its not the prettiest guides and for that i apologize, but if you have any questions i'd be glad to answer them. Cheers! EDIT: if you want a 'common' partition, simply create three new partition at the beginning(one for win7, one for ubuntu, one for common). If you decide that you want a shared partition after you install win7 and ubuntu, simply create a new partition and the recreate your hybrid mbr as described above.

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How to Triple-Boot Your Mac with Windows and Linux, No Boot Camp Required

Apple has streamlined the process of dual booting Windows on your Mac, but when it comes to Linux, Boot Camp isn't so friendly. Here's how to triple-boot your Mac with OS X, Windows 7, and the shiny new Ubuntu 10.04.

If you're a Mac user, you may have already used Apple's Boot Camp to get Windows on your system for those must-have programs. With a fast new Ubuntu out, however, you might want to give it a try—but installing Linux isn't exactly easy on Macs, since they don't recognize it by default.

Also complicating things? Linux and Windows' boot loaders will attempt to take over one another. Usually, this is a good thing, because Linux's multi-system loader makes the experience more seamless for PC users—but on a Mac, this really just makes things more difficult (no one wants to go through two menus to choose their OS). As such, installing Linux needs to be done with certain settings applied, or you'll be left with a jumbled mess. Here's a step-by-step guide to making your triple booting experience as user-friendly as possible.

http://lifehacker.com/5531037/how-to-triple+boot-your-mac-with-windows-and-li...