[steve19137]

This might be one of the more strange requests, since as I look around, I see many people primarily going after OS X and XP or 7. Since I'm a lover of haters of Windows, I want to dual boot Ubuntu and OSX SL. I have much experience with getting both to run and how to use them, and even though I don't have my 10v yet, I will have it next week, and I want to know what I'm doing before I get it. So is there a guide to this? I would just wing it, but I don't know if GRUB will read an OS X partition, and I am also reading about OS X and Chameleon. It seems like they go together: no exceptions. So much help appreciated.

[minimalpc]

I have OS X, Win 7, and Ubuntu installed. I use Chameleon to choose between them at startup. When I select Ubuntu, it boots me into GRUB, which then boots Ubuntu after X seconds. I would suggest going the same route, following the guide(s) here.

[steve19137]

so your saying that i should follow the triple boot guide - the win7 steps? that seems like a good idea. i did some research in chameleon, and it seems that when ever someone wants to dual boot osx and ubuntu on a desktop or other notebook, they install grub to the ubuntu partition. then they complete the osx install, install chameleon, then chameleon detects ubuntu and its all good. do you think i could triple boot osx, ubuntu and moblin with that method?

[minimalpc]

I installed OS X, Windows 7, and Ubuntu in that order following a mixture of the triple boot guides. I don't see why you couldn't throw moblin into the mix.

[steve19137]

cool! thanks for the help. now if it would only ship faster...

[webman2k]

I'd like to do this as well, and already have OS X installed, with 1 full partition. If I'm reading right, it looks like I have to:

1. Create a new FAT partition in disk utility that I'd use for Ubuntu
2. Boot into Ubuntu install and install, manually editing that new partition for the Ubuntu partitions
3. Boot back into Mac OS X install, run NBI and install chameleon again

Then I should be good to go?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[pcmaniac]

There are a lot of threads on multi-booting here. In short it sounds like:
1. Split your hard drive into two partitions and install Mac OS X on one of them
2. Install Linux on another one. Should you follow standard install procedure OS X is not bootable from HDD at this point
3. Boot Mac OS X from external (USB) device. Do not reinstall it. From Utilities menu run NBI to make Mac OS X bootable from HDD. Reboot. Chameleon recognizes there is another Linux partition but it is not bootable at this point. Mac OS X is bootable from HDD
4. Boot linux from external (USB) device. Install GRUB on your linux partition

Both OS should be bootable now.