Worksheet 3
Quad Booting
Requirements
Hardware Requirements
1) PC with SSE2 instruction set
You can use SSE3 but I have no experience with it
2) Empty Hard drive
I strongly recommend that you start with a clean hard drive, no files on it at all. Backup all your data on another drive and put it off to the side for now. I'm using IDE. It's unclear if SATA works (either on board or an add in card). It's also unclear how well RAID is supported. If you have any experience with SATA or RAID, please contribute to the guide!
3) D-link DWL-G122 Rev B1 wireless USB adapter
I had an old linksys PCI wireless card and it just would not work with osx and Linux. However, I had great luck with the D-link usb adapter. It works under all platforms with minimal hassle. Normally they run about $50 but got mine on sale for $25. These adapters are plentiful as well so you can find them at compusa, best buy, fry's, etc. etc.
Software Requirements
1) Gparted LiveCD ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828)
This is a great live cd that is pretty much specific for partitioning. It works with or without an operating system installed, partitions your drive straight forward.
2) Windows XP with Service Pack 2
NOTE: You should have SP2 or SP1 on the install CD, if you wish to install on to a hard drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB). The original version of Windows XP does not support 48-bit LBA, and therefore suffers from the "137 GB limit". For more information on 48-bit LBA issues in Windows XP:
3) Windows Vista
Necessary.
4) OSx86 10.4.8 install disc
I use 10.4.7 with the full patch upgrade to 10.4.8. If you're not a developer then you shouldn't proceed.....it being against the law and all. I've heard some rumor that there is a JaS release floating around.... (as well as an additional "ppf" patch to bring it up to date)
5) Suse 10.1 (http://download.opensuse.org/)
You can use any flavor you want, I've had decent luck with Suse since I'm not a Linux master and I want as much driver support as possible. I recommend the DVD-ISO for easiest install. Also, we will be installing GRUB as the boot loader of choice. This is again, due to ease and convenience. There are some problems with Vista's boot loader and the Darwin boot loader that I'm not going to get into, just take my word for it. For those using SuSE 10.2, the bootloader configuration is different so we shall use windows xp's bootloader. It is explained later in the tutorial.
There is some other software needed to get internet to work; I won't mention it now as it is not pertinent for a straight quad boot. . .
Partitioning
Partitioning Demystified
After going through this project, I learned a ton about partitioning. There are 3 types of partitions which are Primary, Logical, and Extended. Think of it broken up into two seperate groups. Primary partitions and then Logical/Extended. A primary partition is the partition tables way of saying create a partition with a certain amount of space and separate it from other drives physically. You can have a max of 4 primary partitions on a disc (3 if you are using 1 extended partition) From my experience, most operating systems work best when installed on a primary partition which is what we will be doing. Logical/Extended is the other half of the spectrum. It's the partition tables way of saying "hey, I'm not a physical partition but I'm going to trick the computer into thinking it's a partition via software. So you can create 1 extended partition and then inside the extended partition you can create logical partitions. That way, if you are like me you can have 8 + partitions on one hard drive. It will make more sense when you boot up GParted LiveCD.
Getting Started
1) Boot into the GParted CD.
You should have a bunch of unallocated space.
2) Create partitions in the following order:
1 NTFS Primary Partition, (for WinXP)
1 NTFS Primary Partition, (for Vista)
1 FAT32 Primary Partition, (for OSx86)
1 Extended Partition (with the rest of the unallocated space on the drive),
The rest of the partitions will be within the Extended Partition
1 ReiserFS Logical Partition (for Linux install)
Then the rest of your partitions as logical partitions. I have one for games, one for programs, one for video, etc.
Installing XP
Install Windows XP with Service Pack 2 to your first NTFS Primary Partition.
After installation it is imperative you do the following so Vista's bootloader isn't installed:
1) Boot into Gparted CD
2) Right click on your first Primary NTFS partition (with xp installed on it) and select "Manage Flags" from the menu. Check "hidden"
3) Right click on your second Primary NTFS partition (with vista installed on it) and select "Manage Flags" again from the menu. Check "boot"
4) Restart the computer with the Vista CD in the CDrom drive
Installing Vista
Install this to the second NTFS Primary Partition. Should be a straightforward install. Plop in the disc and let r' rip!
NOTE: If you install Vista after another OS without doing the above steps, Vista will automatically install it's new boot loader which is a pain! You do not want Vista's boot loader installed for this tutorial!
After it's installed do the following:
1) Boot the Gparted CD again
2) Right click on your second NTFS Primary Partition and click on "manage flags". Uncheck "boot"
3) Right click on your first NTFS Primary Partition and click on "manage flags". Uncheck "hidden"
Installing OSx86
Plop in your OSx86 DVD and load it up. You will install this to the FAT32 Primary Partition. Once you are at the first install prompt follow these directions:
1) Go to Utilities > Disk Utility
2) Select your partition that you want to be OSX and go to the Erase tab
3) For Volume Format, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
4) Click Erase. Now the partition should not be grey, it should be black to indicate that it is active.
5) Close out of the Disk Utility and move onwards with installation.
After installation, your computer will automatically boot into OSx or you will get a "HFS+ Partition Error"
NOTE: After installation you might receive a "HFS+ Partition Error". I'm not 100% sure why this happens sometimes and why other times it doesn't appear at all. Regardless, you should be able to move ahead with the next steps and get everything to work. Don't worry if you see this error.
Configuring The Boot loader
Congrats if you've made it this far! So now you have Grub installed. If you're not familiar with grub it is a boot loader that comes with Suse. There are excellent in depth guides on it via the web, so I will not be going over specifics. When grub loads you should see Suse 10.1, windows 1, windows 2, failsafe and Suse 10.1 (safe mode). What you should do at this point is test the Suse 10.1 loads, and both windows loads to ensure they work and you boot up to the correct system.
Adding OSx86 to the GRUB menu
To add OSx86 to the GRUB menu do this:
1) Copy the folder "i386" from the OSx cd (which is located at /usr/standalone/i386)and put it in /boot/grub/ The i386 folder is hidden normally so ensure you can see all hidden files in whatever operating system you are currently in. What I did is copied the files over in windows to a flash drive and then copied them from the flash drive to my home space and then used the following command in the terminal: cp -r /home/i386 /boot/grub/i386
2) Go To Applications > System > YaST
3) Go To "System" and select "Boot Loader"
4) Click "Add"
5) Select "Other System (Chainloader)"
6) Type in OSx86 for your Section Name and for Device select browse.
7) Browse to where you saved your i386 folder and select the chain0 file. This means you should have /boot/grub/i386/chain0 in the field where it says device
8) Click OK and you're done.
NOTE: If you try editing the menu.list file straight, it will not show OSx as a choice. You must initially use Yast in order to get the option to show in GRUB then if you desire you can edit it manually. .
Adding OSx86 to the GRUB menu Ubuntu
added these following lines to the /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Mac OS X
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
There was no need of copying any chain0 file or a specific folder somewhere. It just worked fine. But at the line "rootnoverify (hd0,2)" you have to replace the "(hd0,2)" with the location of your primary Mac OS X partition. Hope it helps somebody else who is not using Suse. I also did a complete reinstall of the OS X on the Mac OS X partition and gub still worked after reinstaling Mac OS X. . . . . . .
Adding OSx86 to the Windows XP bootloader (for those having trouble with grub)
Adding OSx86 to the boot loader is an easy task. The instuctions below may seem long but the process is basically adding chain0 to boot.ini and that's it. Whilst grub is more powerful, the extra features are not needed so XP's boot loader will do just fine.
1)Boot Windows XP
2)After Login, Insert the Mac OS X86 DVD and Copy chain0 to the root of the C: drive. You should then have the file C:\chain0. (Chain0 is found on the Mac CD in /user/standalone/i386 but Windows can't read Mac formatted Discs. It seems that this folder is formatted differently so you might find chain0 in the root of the DVD. If you can't find it, download the Mac OS X darwin 10.4 x86 binaries and copy /user/standalone/i386/chain0 from this. The darwin CD is found here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/)
3)In the explorer window, go to the "tools" menu and select folder options. Under the "View" tab, check "Show hidden files and folders" and deselect "Hide protected operating system files".
4)In the root of the C:\ drive, you should now be able to see boot.ini. Right click this file and click "Properties". In the window that appears, uncheck "Read Only".
5)Double click boot.ini so it opens in notepad (or some other text editor)
6)On the last line of boot.ini, add C:\chain0="OSx86"
