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Chiefcooker

Member

Registered: 2006-02-14

Posts: 29

Macbook Pro 3,1 triple boot

Hi, i have a serious problem with my arch installation.
Here is what i have done:
1) I have installed osx using the whole drivespace.
2) installed refit
3) bootcamp with windows vista 64bit
4) booted in osx and resized the osx partition and create a new one between osx and vista partition
5) formated it with fat32
6) booted arch ftp cd and mounted the fat32 partition as / after an ext4 format (no swap partition (4gb ram))
7) installed arch with grub on this ext4 partition
8) reboot, updated refit mbr and gpt, but i only see osx and vista, no arch???

the problem is, i have done the same with ubuntu, and i can see it in refit, but not with arch?
pls help, i want to use arch 64

here is a log from refit partition manager from osx:

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640    859717671  Mac OS X HFS+
 3      859717672    881215487  Basic Data
 4      881215488    976773119  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
 2         409640    859717671  af  Mac OS X HFS+
 3      859717672    881215487  83  Linux
 4 *    881215488    976773119  07  NTFS/HPFS

MBR contents:
 Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
 Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
 File System: FAT32
 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
 Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
 Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af  Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 859717672:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: ext3
 Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data
 Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 83  Linux

Partition at LBA 881215488:
 Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
 File System: NTFS
 Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data
 Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 07  NTFS/HPFS, active

regards chief, and sry for my bad english

mobitux

Member

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 9

Re: Macbook Pro 3,1 triple boot

Hello Chiefroooker,
I think it is easier to use ext2 /ext3 for the /boot Partition. Try to install Refit with the Option ext Filesystem loader.