Triple Booting

David Curtis dcurtis at uniserve.com
Sun Jul 20 05:46:59 UTC 2008


Chris wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:56:31 -0400
> David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:
> 
>> Chris wrote:
>>
>>>> The only reason that I want to triple boot is for bragging rights
>>>> (My buddy said it can't be done) thanks for the suggestion tho. I
>>>> never thought of that. (Now if I can get OS X on here as well...) 
>>> Ahh - now that would be a nice trick (OS X)!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The number of OSes grub can boot are limited only by the number of 
>> partitions you have, by using different methods people have literally 
>> booted hundreds of OSes. Unfortunately the switch to the Pata names
>> has limited the number of partitions to 15 per disk. But there are
>> ways to get around this.
>>
>> OS X? not a problem, google 'grub booting OS X'.
>>
>> Dave
>>
> 
> I think the Op is referring to OS X on a Wintel (assuming because the Op
> mentions both XP and Vista).
> 
Yup, whether it's mac hardware or hacking OS X onto regular PC hardware, 
grub should boot it with a chainloader.

Dave




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