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Dual Booting All discussion on Dual Booting 2 operating systems (or even more!) on the Dell Mini
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| Member  Posts: 35 Join Date: Dec 2009 |  dell mini 10v with SL 10.6.3 dual-boot question -
09-25-2010, 03:47 AM
hello, i want to dual boot meego 1.0, i looked at one guide to QUAD boot but it required windows on the mini and all i want to do is dual boot mac os x 10.6.3 (mac os x is installed already) and meego. i made a second partition, got the meego on a usb drive, but i want to know how to install with out losing my install of SL. please help. p.s i would try jolicloud but i followed the guide but jolicloud would not boot and it corrupted my HDD on my mini 10v |
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| Senior Member  Posts: 104 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: SoCal | 
09-25-2010, 04:33 AM
Format 2nd partition to fat, boot usb drive, choose to install, when you get to the formatting stage shrink the partition you created by 2 gigs for swap. Do the install choosing the partition you created VERY IMPORTANT install grub to the partition you installed meego on. reboot and you should get a couple of seconds when chameleon boots to hit space bar and choose OS's. If it boots diectly to meego you need to make your OSX partition active again. "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword." - Matthew 10:34 |
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| Member Posts: 35 Join Date: Dec 2009 | thanks -
09-25-2010, 06:21 AM
thanks trying now ---------- Post added at 10:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:08 PM ---------- im on meego installer its asking me to do the filesystem for the 30 GB thing i made for it and it says it wont boot from a vfat can i reformat to the btrfs filesystem? i made the sawp to so all i need to do is install after i get this figured out ---------- Post added at 11:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ---------- it was installing and now its stuck on the "installing bootloader" how do i fix it |
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| Member Posts: 35 Join Date: Dec 2009 |
09-26-2010, 08:50 PM
well any help for me? i just had to repair my osx with gparted (i got a error in disk utility because of a 35GB hidden partiton). so i still need help with with meego its either dual boot meego or dual boot ubuntu 10.04 so please help |
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| Senior Member Posts: 104 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: SoCal |
09-27-2010, 05:10 AM
Sorry on vacation so not checking in regular. I would format the partition for meego to ext4 file system. Sounds like meego is taking over the boot priority which means chameleon is not in charge of boot so after you install meego run gptsync and the boot should be chameleon which is the 200mb partition should be flagged boot, hidden and snow leopard should be flagged hidden. Nothing on the meego partition as chameleon will go to grub when you select linux. Hope this helps. "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword." - Matthew 10:34 |
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| Member Posts: 35 Join Date: Dec 2009 | ok well -
10-03-2010, 01:36 AM
the same thing happened so now i want to try ubuntu 10.04 please tel me howe  i look on google and this site but no luck  |
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