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maldojr88
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hello guys....
Im running mac OSX 10.5 Leopard.
Ive decided that I wanna dual boot with gentoo.
I have a core 2 dual 2.0 GHz and 1 GB of Ram
where can i get a detailed installation guide on how to dual boot
without losing my mac stuff...
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slycordinator
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You'll need to resize your partition to create space for gentoo. parted (and obviously gparted) support shrinking hfs/hfs+ partitions so you'd be good for that.
And once you've got the space created you'd just need to follow the gentoo install guide, partition the free space for gentoo and install. And grub now supports booting from efi so it shouldn't be hard to get them to dual-boot.
Your other option is to install gentoo from macosx's bootcamp thingy. |
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maldojr88
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:35 am Post subject: |
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thanks for the post....
is there a detailed overview of how to use parted....because I have valuable information
on my Macbook that cannot afford to lose.
and will the GRUB let me boot both OS
another question....MAC has an intel processor....should i follow the x86 install guide in the
gentoo handbook |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| maldojr88 wrote: | thanks for the post....
is there a detailed overview of how to use parted....because I have valuable information
on my Macbook that cannot afford to lose. |
Using gparted it's as simple as point and click to resize.
| Quote: | | and will the GRUB let me boot both OS |
It should be able to.
You should just need to make sure to have an appropriate entry for max os x in grub.conf
If your mac partition is the first one of the first disk then it would need to have
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rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
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But I can't personally vouch if it works; I don't have a mac but that's a working config people referenced on a macintosh site.
[quoteanother question....MAC has an intel processor....should i follow the x86 install guide in the
gentoo handbook[/quote]
Your processor would be a 64-bit so you could either use the x86 install guide and livecd OR the amd64 install guide and livecd (don't be confused that it's called amd64; it's just called that since amd came out with one first). |
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Edweirdo
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This post really helped me in making a triple boot system (Mac,Windows,Linux).
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp
You are only doing two but it is pretty much the same. The important part is to use refit and then install grub onto the partition and not the mbr.
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slycordinator
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| That link doesn't work; site seems to have a database failure. |
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Edweirdo
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Anyway. The key issues are what I mentioned above. Use the program refit (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) on your mac partition. It will automatically sense bootable partitions (including CD/DVDs and flash drives if present). When you install grub do:
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replace the "2" with your partition (it most likely will end up being 2 (3rd partition)). This puts the boot loader on the 3rd partition and refit will find it there.
Hope that's clear enough.
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