[SOLVED] Triple Boot on Macbook 5,5 kills my arch install

BoomZooka · 2014-12-06 23:54:37

I am currently trying to get a triple boot working on my mid 2009 macbook pro. I have 3 seperate partitions set up so that i can just launch the OS's with rEFInd.

Problem is.. as soon as I get all of them installed and up and running. I will try to boot cycle all of them to make sure everything is working as planned.

i boot OSX, everything is good
i boot Windows 7, again good to go.
as soon as i boot arch AFTER windows it kills the install it seems. the system will lock up at

starting version 217
/dev/sda6: recovering journal
/dev/sda6 clean, XXXXXX/xxxxxx files, XXXXXX/xxxxxx blocks

I am not quite sure how to find a log or anything since i cannot even boot into the system.

it ONLY happens after I boot into windows.

Already tested my ram per someone elses advice. everything turned out ok with that

the arch install works great if i only boot osx or arch.

I am not using bootcamp

i could chroot in and look for the log im just not sure where it would be.
i will gladly post that as well if i can get the location

Last edited by BoomZooka (2014-12-08 07:07:01)

BoomZooka · 2014-12-08 07:05:57

ended up finally figuring out the issue

Figured out I couldnt see what was going on was, because I had a kernel parameter set as quiet for some reason. So it was not showing me anything which led me to run across a blog online that described system lockups at boot.

Added this to the kernel boot parameters in my grub.cfg on the linux line. After I did that everything booted like normal.

nomodeset reboot=pci

credits to http://dreamtimecircles.com/2013/10/06/arch/

jasonwryan · 2014-12-08 07:07:05

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#1 2014-12-06 23:54:37

[SOLVED] Triple Boot on Macbook 5,5 kills my arch install

#2 2014-12-08 07:05:57

Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot on Macbook 5,5 kills my arch install

#3 2014-12-08 07:07:05

Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot on Macbook 5,5 kills my arch install

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