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Here’s the output from the quad-booting laptop as it is now, showing it as partition #4: Last login: Sun Jun 13 19:22:13 on consoleĢ: Apple_HFS Snow Leopard 49.7 GB disk0s2Ĥ: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 29.2 GB disk0s4įilesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on It’s one greater than the number you’d expect if you were just going by Disk Utility’s GUI. It does in fact correspond to the partition number as specified in the output of diskutil list, and/or df.

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Now, with a working WIndows install, I know how to verify the number in the boot.ini file. For me right now, the third partition has done the trick. I’m pretty sure Windows must be installed on the third partition. In Disk Utility, partitions start from the top:

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Prior to embarking on this journey, you need to decide ahead of time what to install on the first two partitions, because the third has to be Windows. In my case (with Windows XP) it definitely did not.

“there is no operating system installed in this virtual machine” (That’s from Parallels).

I tried every single number between 1 and 6, and even zero (out of desperation), none would satisfy Windows.Īt some later point, after much formatting and reinstalling, I actually got Windows to boot, only to be greeted by a blue screen instead of a black screen, which flashed too quickly for me to read and then the computer restarted itself.Īlthough I don’t have a complete list of my Googles during this time, here’s what I was able to dig up from Firefox’s history, hopefully it will save a fellow Googler or two: So I followed their suggestions and edited the file using emacs, and played around with the number. My Windows partition was in the wrong location, and it didn’t like that. The boot.ini file, for some reason, specifies what partition number it’s located on. The comments section were particularly helpful, and led me to investigate the boot.ini file as a possible source of the problem. Upon rebooting to check the XP install, I was greeted with a black screen and error message along the lines of “No bootable device available.”Īfter searching Google I came across this hint on how to triple-boot your system. Restoring Windows is one thing, getting it to boot is another. So I partitioned the entire drive, this time using Disk Utility, and was able to successfully restore Windows to the NTFS partition using Winclone.

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I went a different route though, as I discovered that by installing NTFS-3G (the free Open Source version), I could create NTFS partitions using Disk Utility. Disk Utility cannot leave “unpartitioned space” on the drive, and therefore you’d end up creating more than one partition before running BCA, which would then refuse to do its thing. You would need to use iPartition because iPartition lets you create partitions while leaving free space on the drive, and remember, we need that space to create additional partitions for the other operating systems.

To get around this error you probably could use iPartition to create a single HFS+ partition and install Snow Leopard on it. I tried using Boot Camp Assistant (BCA) to create the NTFS partition, but BCA greeted me with this error (for the Googlers): “The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.” That failed because Winclone needs the partition to be formatted first. I had saved a Windows install using Winclone, so I went to try to restore that. IPartition wasn’t able to create an NTFS partition so I left the Windows partition unformatted, everything else was formatted as HFS+, journaled. Then I could non-destructively resize its partition and add the rest. To do this, I had to first run iDefrag (also made by Coriolis Systems) to compact the Snow Leopard install. The plan was to use iPartition to create this setup without erasing my Snow Leopard install: I originally thought this entire process would be a simple matter of creating partitions and installing each OS on its respective partition (Hah!).

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My goal was to be able to test and develop software for Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Windows XP, and possibly other operating systems in the future (Windows 7, Ubuntu, etc., although that might require Grub).

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MotivationĪfter upgrading to the latest Unibody, I decided to turn my old MacBook Pro into the ultimate testing environment. So, you want to quad-boot your Mac? What could possibly go wrong?