[bsoplinger1]

Originally Posted by slacker

How do I make this drive visible in Win 7 without affecting my nicely working dual boot? Right-click and make it a "new simple volume"?

I believe your problem here is Windows only can read 4 partitions on a MBR drive.
The partition map looks like:
1) GUID partition map
2) Hybrid/Fake MBR partition map
3) OS X partition
4) Win 7 partition
5) Ubuntu partition (or in your case FAT32)

Windows doesn't understand the 5th partition since it knows MBR can only have 4 partitions

I'm pretty certain this means you can't get Windows to see it.

[slacker]

Originally Posted by bsoplinger1

I believe your problem here is Windows only can read 4 partitions on a MBR drive.
The partition map looks like:
1) GUID partition map
2) Hybrid/Fake MBR partition map
3) OS X partition
4) Win 7 partition
5) Ubuntu partition (or in your case FAT32)

Windows doesn't understand the 5th partition since it knows MBR can only have 4 partitions

I'm pretty certain this means you can't get Windows to see it.

Thanks for this info!

The instructions from Anguish say:
"-Open Disk Utility and partition drive, creating three partitions
- Create first partition for Windows 7, formatted with MS-DOS (FAT)
- Create second partition for OS X, formatted with Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
- Create third partition for Ubuntu, formatted with MS-DOS (FAT)"

If I were to start all over :-( and make the OS X partition the 3rd partition, will I now be able to see and use the FAT32 partition for my common data files in both OS X and Win7?
Is Netbookinstaller 0.8.3 RC3 OK with this? Does OS X have to be in partition 2? I've read so many things, I just cant remember anymore...

-slacker

[bsoplinger1]

Windows then couldn't see you OS X partition, not sure if that matters. And I don't lnow what the status is for what partion OS X is on. It used to have to be at a particular partition but I don't know if the latest NBI cares. Melkort is really the one to answer that. Its the creation of the hybrid GUID/MBR partition map that eats up 2 of the 4 partitions you can work with in Windows that's causing the trouble.

If you're willing to go with using the Windows BCD bootloader and EasyBCD you can have only a MBR partition map and only use 1 partition that way. Of course then you wouldn't be in this thread on using Chameleon bootloader anymore

[slacker]

Originally Posted by bsoplinger1

Windows then couldn't see you OS X partition.

Ah, yes. I wouldnt be able to use Win to make OS X the active partition then.

Perhaps I should just try to reclaim that 35gb of unused space and use a skydrive (or dropbox) for the common data files. I hate how the SD card sticks out on the 10V, or I'd use that.

Or go the EasyBCD route...

Thanks for your help, bsoplinger1.

-slacker

[christofarian]

Hey guys,
quick question ive red through this forum and i still can't figure out how to make a single mac osx usb drive. Every post i see has the mac install process pertaining to 2 individual usb sticks one with the bootloader on it and one with the macox image on it. i noticed in anguishes video he only uses a usb hard.

so basically i was jsut wondering how anguish made his mac osx usb install. maybe theres a post im missing or something. also i went to one of the links for netbookinstaller that says just run it with my perfered settings . .i am running windows 7 on my tower and there is nothing in the folder that allows me to run it. Now i know im missing something. once again any help would be apreciated.

[slacker]

Originally Posted by christofarian

Hey guys,
quick question ive red through this forum and i still can't figure out how to make a single mac osx usb drive. Every post i see has the mac install process pertaining to 2 individual usb sticks one with the bootloader on it and one with the macox image on it. i noticed in anguishes video he only uses a usb hard.

so basically i was jsut wondering how anguish made his mac osx usb install. maybe theres a post im missing or something. also i went to one of the links for netbookinstaller that says just run it with my perfered settings . .i am running windows 7 on my tower and there is nothing in the folder that allows me to run it. Now i know im missing something. once again any help would be apreciated.

These excellent guides will show you how to make a single bootable OS X USB drive:
Guides | OS X | mechdrew

[christofarian]

ive been to that site and ive looked through it before i put up the last post. the link that says install on any OS . . that uses 2 usb sticks like the rest of them on that page . .

oops. i didnt see the first one where you can make the single bootable drive from a mac . . witch i dont have lol

is there anyway to make a single bootable mac osx drive maybe in linux or windows or maybe even a virtual instalation of Mac osx

[christofarian]

after about 14 hours and no sleep i successfully tripple booted using anguish's guide. once i got all the usb Keys made Mac osX being the hardest already knew how to make a ubuntu and win7, and that was pretty much the hardest part.

there were 2 other bugs after the trial and error for making those usb keys

1. when i got to windows install it said "can not install on this hard drive"
solution-went into bios somehow i think when i downgraded the second usb option was disabled, i enabled it and it went smooth

2. after win 7 install the guide said put the mac osx media back in so we can reinstall the bootloader. wel when i did this i got that grey screen with an apple with a ghostbusters signal (but with no ghost) came up.
solution- restarted and all was fine

Other then those 2 little errors which were so easy to remedy holy **** this was easy.
(not the creation of the mac usb stick took 5 hours off my life doing that)
but now that i know how to do it and to nuse a retail copy and not a copy that a "friend" gave me that dosent have support for atom processors.

THANKS ANGUISH

[highstrings]

I thought I had successfully installed XP, 10.6.1, Ubunto, on my system. had the grub bootloader, but changed active partition to OSX and loaded Chameleon bootloader 0.8.3 rc4 but now can't see Ubuntu as an option to load?

I used the osinstall change so that I could install to an mbr.

Any suggestions?

[bsoplinger1]

I know I had troubles with getting Ubuntu to load when I reinstalled Chameleon but it never wasn't selectable in the Chameleon boot menu. The Win 7 fix, to load the Win installer disc change active partition, repair, change partition back to OS X did indeed fix Ubuntu for me as a side effect. Not sure if that would be of any help to you but its simple enough to try.