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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Everyone check your Digg bingo sheets, be sure to mark "Ubuntu" off.
- bllambert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I have been triple booting for a couple of months. This "how to" looks way to complicated for my taste. Follow these steps and deal with two boot managers.
Install XP
Install Vista RC2
Install Ubuntu
When your computer starts, you get the GRUB boot loader with two options.
"Ubuntu" or "Windows Vista Boot Loader"
If you selct the "Windows Vista Boot Loader" You will get the option for either
"Vista" or "Older version of Windows" aka XP.
Both menu's are on short timers, so if you don't touch anything, your computer will boot your favorite OS shortly. - hevnikov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hi bllambert,
I tried to show how to create not just a triple boot system but a system with single boot screen. That's why all the additional steps. I wish I could find a way for GRUB to recognize Vista so I could dump winload and use customized GRUB, but I'm still experimenting to find a solution. Yes, simple installs will do, and order does not really matter if you are ok with two boot managers and scrolling boot menu to select your OS, but that wasn't my goal. Single boot screen. Plus a lot of steps are obvious, I included them for completeness for beginners.
Regards,
Ilya. - Urza_the_Tyrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I was planning on an identical boot when I purchase my new laptop. Nice to have a simple guide.
- Nachoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I am sincere. This is my first time to get dugg down.. I am honestly grateful for the article.
The only problem is, I found out that another guide is more useful for Ubuntu/XP Users without Vista, which fits better in my situation.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p3.htm - fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Show me a quad boot: OSX, Ubuntu, Vista, XP and i'll be happy =)
- Nachoo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Oh my god, thank you very much for this. I always wanted to build something like this but always postponed it due to the lack of guides and How-tos.
Thank you!! - bllambert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hi Ilya,
I see what you were doing, and have a lot of respect for your knowledge and the effort you put into this. I didn't mean to challenge that. I just thought some of the Diggers might want to attempt a triple boot for the first time, and were possibly intimidated by all of those steps. I would love a single screen GRUB boot loader for all 3. I'd like it even better if Apple were to open OSX to more hardware, and we could Quad boot on one screen.
I would also like to see Ubuntu make their own GRUB gui editor so that people would not have to edit the config file every time a new kernel is released. - gadgetuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've got that config for dual booting. The problem for me is that I need XP to be listed as the default boot choice in Grub. I don't mind changing grub.conf once but every single time there's a kernel update for Ubuntu it overwrites it and drops XP down to last choice again. Is there any way to prevent/workaround this?
- pauljaroszewski, on 10/25/2007, -0/+4to answer your question: why would anyone want XP and Vista?
IT people and general geekery/fun/curiosity. For many of us its both.
also, for a select few its also for hackery, exploits, etc. which is just the dark side of geekery/fun/curiosity. - rogerbannister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Now I just need "Global Warming is Bush's Fault" to get a bingo!
- gadgetuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@lpcustom
"I mean really......of all the things to bitch about."
Er, wow. I wasn't bitching - just asking for some advice. Didn't you get your hug today? Such an angry boy.
Anyway, thanks for the mostly useless help, although I might give the scripting idea a try. - lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"I've got that config for dual booting. The problem for me is that I need XP to be listed as the default boot choice in Grub. I don't mind changing grub.conf once but every single time there's a kernel update for Ubuntu it overwrites it and drops XP down to last choice again. Is there any way to prevent/workaround this?"
Yeah.....don't use XP so much. You could also just not upgrade the kernel. You could write a shell script that checks that XP is default in your grub config. You could try a different bootloader. I mean really......of all the things to bitch about. All you have to do is change one number in the config and save the file. If that annoys you, don't use a computer. - donte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Agreed. I'm a little curious as to the big deal behind running 2 different versions of Windows. I'm sure more of the diggsters would find much more utility in a triple boot of Vista/OSX/[insert-favorite-linux-flavor-here]. But maybe that's just my more cynical nature coming out. Just because you *can* do something that doesn't always make it a really good idea or particularly useful.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"OSX, Ubuntu, Vista, XP"-quad-boot is quite possible, although it's a bit of pain getting OS X to boot via grub (you need to use a "chain0" file on a NTFS/EXT3/etc partiton, and boot that instead of the OS X partition). I've triple-booted WinXP, Ubuntu and OS X before, but since OS X86 didn't work with my wireless card, and the only reason I might use continue using it - Final Cut/Shake - was extremely unstable.
But, it really wan't that difficult, install OS X(86) first (I like it's disk partitioner) making 5 partitions, install Windows XP then Vista, then Linux and grub. Create an EXT3 partition in the spare (5th) partition, and put your chain0 file in there - There's better guides on the InsanelyMac(/OS X86 Project) forums..
Not that I'm condoning OS X86.. Well, I am, but it is pretty unstable (in my exerience anyway)
Anyway, if people are scared that they will muck up their computer, I recommend setting up dual-boot in something like VMWare a few times - Install Windows, then Ubuntu, say. Then do the same, but in reverse (Which is more difficult, since Windows always puts on it's own bootloader - You need to use the Ubuntu CD to restore GRUB)
- Ben - pauljaroszewski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i have a Kubuntu/XP/Vista system working fine on 2 SATA hd's. one drive is dedicated to Kubuntu and the other is XP/Vista. i made a Super Grub Boot Disk (iso cd) and thats how ive been booting...works great and i didn't have to go through all of those steps. just make sure you install XP and then Vista first, then install Kubuntu last. keep the Super Grub Boot Disk in the tray when you boot :) it has a few menu selections you have to go through, but its no big deal.
SUPER GRUB DISK:
http://forjamari.linex.org/frs/?group_id=61 - lpcustom, on 10/25/2007, -1/+3Yeah if you are going to triple boot, at least use three different OS's. Just for the hell of it, my main machine can boot to Windows XP, Debian, or OSx86. Two versions of Windows is pretty pointless. Can anyone give a good reason why you would want to do this?
- yeahbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have two hard drives in my PC. I have never seen a good article that will show me how to do the following:
Install Windows XP on 1st HDD (already done). 1 partition for the entire drive.
Install Ubuntu and Windows Vista on 2nd HDD. 1/3 Ubuntu partition, 2/3 Vista partition.
Have a GRUB like screen asking me which OS to boot into.
All the tutorials seem to show how to do this on a single, partitioned drive.
Anyone know how to get this done? - scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A long time ago I used to have a system set up for 7-boot mostly for the fun of it. There was even one guy that got 39 OSes set up on his system.
- thelelander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3someone needs to make a firefox extension that filters out every "Ubuntu" digg. it's honestly worse than the apple and colbert fetish that goes on here.
- Bonzodog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Xp AND Vista???????
If I was to triple boot, it would be fBSD, Xp, and Linux. - iamtheinternet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2please dear god no one digg this anymore, it's at 1337 atm.
that makes this pretty much a national digg landmark now, and it must be preserved. - randeepsamra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i think someone had 100 installs in 1 comp. check it out urself
- dipiddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3A few years ago I bought a laptop and that had XP and Debian on it. I made a lilo boot graphic with a penguin and a windows logo that had a title above it, "To suck or not to suck?"
- ChrisRX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait, they installed ubuntu first? I thought it was pretty much common sense nowadays that if you plan to dual boot you should always install windows first and linux after because windows really doesn't like to play friendly with linux partitions. It makes the whole process a lot easier to do it this way
Boot ubuntu livecd and partition your drive into at least 4 partitions (vista, xp ubuntu and swap)
install xp with the xp boot disk
install vista onto a seperate partition using the vista boot disk
boot the ubuntu livecd again and install ubuntu onto the last partition
Grub will automatically detect xp and vista and add them to your boot menu - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's pretty much the same thing, just follow the one in this article
- djAnakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is awesome! Thanks! I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, but never got around to it!
- vistic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Back in the day I used to triple boot BeOS, Red Hat Linux, and Windows 2000 (or maybe still Win98 at that time?) The Be Boot Loader was very nice and easy.
Today I might consider triple booting on my Mac if I had the hard drive space.
But what's the point of having both Windows XP *and* Windows Vista?
(edit: what's the point of having Vista, period.) :-P - umbriago, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No sarcasm at all = this is great, and timely too, because I was just figuring out the old way wasn't working last night. Thank you.
- Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Its hard to tell if you were being sincere in that, it just read like you were being sarcastic.
- burndive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you install Vista before XP, you might be able to boot both straight from GRUB. I don't see the point of dual booting XP and Vista, though. I think you can also boot either Windows partition from GRUB, and set the timer to zero set to boot Vista by default on the Windows-only bootloader.
For a while I was dual-booting Vista and XP because my printer doesn't have a Vista-compatible driver available (and never will). I went to straight Vista when RC1 came out. I don't print that often: when I do, it's mostly web pages, so I just print from my Linux server. - rogerbannister, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Seriously, dual/triple booting is extremely basic stuff. The first time I did it was probably close to 10 years ago. I can't believe this story made it to the front page. Ideally, find one OS that does everything you want and stick with that one.
- rvandam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Two versions of Windows is pretty pointless. Can anyone give a good reason why you would want to do this?"
I don't know if there's enough difference between XP and Vista to warrant it but I found this because I need to triple boot 98SE, XP, and (take a guess which linux distro). In my case its because a few hardware/software combos on this old box won't work under XP. A lot of people do it when a new version of Windows comes out because they want to start fresh but don't want to overwrite their old setup (yeah it usually saves your files but in the past there were often multiple programs you couldn't run and probably couldn't properly uninstall, your registry just keeps bloating, etc, etc). So you dual boot for a few months until you start getting everything downloaded and installed and eventually you format the old version and merge the partitions. - permaband, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Site's crawling for me.
http://duggmirror.com/software/How_to_Build_Triple_Boot_XP_Vista_Ubuntu_with_single_Boot_Screen_wpics/ - Skeksis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have something like this on my machine that I did a few months back. Only difference is that I triple boot Xp, Ubuntu, and OsX. Becuase like stated above, if you're going to have more than 1 OS it might as well be something drastically different if you're going to take the time to install it. I personally don't feel Vista is worth having if you have XP. Atleast, not yet.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is, it's a script for greasemonkey, check it out....
- MauroCol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1can any of you guys give me a site where I could know how to get a double boot for Mac and Windows XP, this is something I've been wanting to do for a while? Anyone..?
- rogerbannister, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Come on, now, we don't want to offend all the digg windoze newbies...
- masskurec, on 03/03/2009, -0/+0why would someone use xp along with vista? this is non-sense
http://xptweak.net - n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I gave up dual booting long ago. VMware is the way to go.
- ac506in, on 02/18/2009, -0/+0May be this will help
http://triplebootonmacbook.blogspot.com/ - funkychikensays, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I do that too.. i dont get why everyone is making it look so hard..but how could you boot into all of them at the same time?
- SammyJr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree. Dual/triple booting is so 1998.
I'd rather just boot XP and SSH or VNC into my Linux VMs on the VMware server in the basement, but that's just me. - crossers, on 07/23/2008, -0/+0oh thanks I just searching this information.
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - immrlizard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Since most modern motherboards have a boot options screen, you can simply install each OS on a different drive and not risk losing anything when a windows patch goes crazy. When it is booting hit the right key mine is F8 and it pops up a box that asks you which boot device. Simple!
- kdrlx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1this method is way more simple to -
install
maintain
debug ..
i am going this way ... the good 'ol way i had 98/xp/rh6 ... - edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41) Set up projector in old folks home
2) Load Digg, set to autorefresh every 10 seconds
3) Pass out bingo cards
4) ...
5) Profit! - lifeinanalog, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2XP and Vista on a boot loader? Isn't that a bit redundant? I can totally understand Ubuntu and XP(or Vista) but to have all three of them seems to defeat the purpose of having different OSs to boot into. XP and Vista are pretty much the same platform. Granted Vista is more of a downgrade from XP I still don't understand why anyone would want all three. It's a waste of space honestly.
- rsmaniak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1wow cool thanks
- nmaster64, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4This is my wet dream...
Windows for gaming, Mac for video editing, and Linux for programming...
*cue "Why Can't We Be Friends" music*
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