On Nov 18, 1:52 am, TheMactivist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am still struggling to triple boot my Pismo. > > I have a 60GB hard drive installed - 2GB OS9 partition (installed), 48GB OSX > partition (installed), 5GB linux partition (empty), > > So I have a 5GB partition waiting for Ubuntu. I've tried 9.04 and 10.10,
10.0 works better, I have seen 2/2 machines in the last 2 weeks 10.10 would not boot. > both normal and alternative installer. There's a third one, you want the server install, I used and worked fine but a little experience may be needed. The others I tried I didn't like but they did work, I just didn't like the choices. >Each time the partitioner gets stuck > when looking for free space - it comes up with an error message about > bootstrap. it has to make a ~1MB partition for the boot loader (yaboot) to live on. It really should be the first partition although it doesn't have to be if you have a good battery (clock or main). Just to be sure, when you boot into your new system reorder that partition using parted, or do with pdisk in 0S9. Anyway you have to delete your one partition first to make it free space and then partition it into at least three partitions (root, swap, bootloader [note not "/boot", forget about that). Select the manual partitioning method and set up these three by hand (its intuitiive, and you can always practice then start over) > > At that point - I stopped the installer/partitioner as I didn't want to mess > up my OS9/OSX installs. As long as you know which partitions they are don't have to worry, don't touch them. > > Any ideas what is going on. I googled the problem and the only thing I could > find out was it was to do with OS9 being installed. > > I have dual booted many PowerBooks in the past with OSX and Ubuntu and not > had a problem. I have never triple booted though. you may need to edit /etc/yaboot.conf -- you can see looking in there how it is set up but it may only have done one of 9/X for you. After you add the entry for the other you have to rerun ybin to install that option on the boot menu. Otherwise you can always start up 9/X by Option key at startup. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > TM > > -- > > --- Twitter:http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal- > LowEndMac:http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum- Skype: Simon-Royal. > --- Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' and iBook G3 running OSX 10.4 and Sony > Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
