[DenisM]

Hi,

I had Alan Kelly's triple boot setup in operation. Very reliable.

I re-installed Ubuntu, because I had damaged it somehow.
It seemed like a good ides at the time :0

Ubuntu worked fine after install , but it was the only op sys offered at
bootup.

I used it with just Ubuntu for a while. I was not too concerned about the single boot at the time.
I was using Ubuntu to test drive Ruby on Rails 3 and wanted to keep it off my desktop while experimenting.

However I decided it was time to go back to triple boot and fix it.

I booted from the Netbookinstaller USB and it took me into OS-X.

I tried re-running NetbookInstaller...... Seemed like a good idea at the time :0

Now I can only get OS-X or Win XP.

Clearly I've screwed the boot up sequencing.

Any idea on how I can access UBUNTU ?

I could re-install to the partition, but I want to keep it intact if possible, as I had just succeeded in installing Ruby on Rails 3 -don't want to do it again.


DenisM

[DenisM]

Some small progress....

I reinstalled grub to sda3...
as described in : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

It booted into Ubuntu ! yipee !

However on a second boot it went back to Chameleon and displays
XP or OS-X only !

Hmmm............ some more thinking/reading..........

D.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by DenisM

Some small progress....

I reinstalled grub to sda3...
as described in : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

It booted into Ubuntu ! yipee !

However on a second boot it went back to Chameleon and displays
XP or OS-X only !

Hmmm............ some more thinking/reading..........

D.

Seems to me the hard part's done. Rerunning NBI should take care of the rest, I think.

[DenisM]

Afraid not

I ran Netbookinstaller again...
No good
I'm still offered OS-X on bootup
with shift, I can bring up XP as a second option.
I can boot into either of XP or OS-X.

No sign of Ubuntu

DenisM

[Deltari09]

Originally Posted by DenisM

Afraid not

I ran Netbookinstaller again...
No good
I'm still offered OS-X on bootup
with shift, I can bring up XP as a second option.
I can boot into either of XP or OS-X.

No sign of Ubuntu

DenisM

Did you try EasyBCD? But I don't remember if it supports Mac installations.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Deltari09

Did you try EasyBCD? But I don't remember if it supports Mac installations.

EasyBCD is not supported in XP, unfortunately.

I wonder if the file system you used in Linux might have anything to do with it?

Does your OS X install USB show the linux partition when booting from it? Also, have you tried installing chameleon (nbi) from the OS X installer?

[DenisM]

Again some progress...

I reinstalled GRUB again....

Now I have Ubuntu , XP , OS-x offered to me on a black bootup screen.
XP works
Ubuntu works

OS-X hangs with a black screen.

Clearly chameleon has been overwritten/damaged ?

So no access to OS-X

Now I think using NBI might help.
Must make a clone copy of the
hd before any more changes...

DenisM

[mikemelbrooks]

Originally Posted by Oscar

EasyBCD is not supported in XP, unfortunately.

I wonder if the file system you used in Linux might have anything to do with it?

Does your OS X install USB show the linux partition when booting from it? Also, have you tried installing chameleon (nbi) from the OS X installer?

easyBCD is supported in XP And it can boot grub osx and xp. From the Website
"EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies' multiple award-winning answer to taking control of your bootloader. EasyBCD extends and revamps the Windows Vista/Windows 7 BCD bootloader, and with EasyBCD, almost anything is possible. Setting up and configuring a dual-boot between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older versions of Windows such as XP & 2003, Linux, Ubuntu, BSD, and Mac OS X is a breeze. You just point & click and EasyBCD does the rest."

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by mikemelbrooks

easyBCD is supported in XP And it can boot grub osx and xp. From the Website
"EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies' multiple award-winning answer to taking control of your bootloader. EasyBCD extends and revamps the Windows Vista/Windows 7 BCD bootloader, and with EasyBCD, almost anything is possible. Setting up and configuring a dual-boot between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older versions of Windows such as XP & 2003, Linux, Ubuntu, BSD, and Mac OS X is a breeze. You just point & click and EasyBCD does the rest."

Exactly. Which means you can add an entry for XP when you use either Win 7 or Vista as your active OS (partition). But it will not support XP as active.