Anyone successfully tripplebooted Windows, OSX and Linux?

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Hi there! 

Some years ago I wanted to try multiple OSs on my (kinda) crappy laptop. 

As far as I can recall I managed to boot Ubuntu and Windows, but I couldn't get past OSX installation (altough I could be wrong, it was over 5 years ago). I think I used Chameleon bootloader back then, as it could manage all said OSs. 

With the "new" hype on hackintoches, it would be interesting to see if anyone managed a multiboot with said OSs? 

Also, it would be interesting to know if anyone had issues in the different OSs becouse of multibooting? 

 

My computer back then (HP Touchsmart tx2) was probably not a good choise for anything but (barely) Windows at the time, but is now running Lubuntu fully functional. 

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Just use Clover. It can boot OS X and thanks to UEFI it can just jump into the Windows Loader or GRUB. It's very easy and straightforward.

You should probably research EFI variables and how to use the shell in case something goes wrong.

And don't forget to turn of Secure Boot :)

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Yes I have a tri-boot system with Windows 8.1, Mavericks, and Ubuntu 14.04. I used the unibeast/multibeast method. The only issue I've had was hardware compatibility issues with OS X, namely the killer e2205 NIC.

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I used to but preferred the GPT partitioning system so I have separate systems for each OS now. I tripled booted Windows 8.1, Gentoo Linux and Mac OS X Mountain Lion via iAtkos

Used GRUB2 bootloader if I remember correctly, might have been Chameleon though. Everything worked fine, just installed each OS on a separate partition, and configured the bootloader properly so each OS could be loaded. It's fun for a while, but I prefer my systems to be dedicated to a single OS. 

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Grub should do all 3 at ones?

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I've triple booted Windows, Linux and BSD (grand daddy to OSX) all on one drive. Does that count?

Frankly, I don't see why you can't boot between Windows, Ubuntu and OSX if you used 3 different hard drives -- or even 2 (hint hint).

And it's not like you can't select the boot order in your BIOS/UEFI or even select the boot device by press something like F8 while booting either.

Boot loaders are interesting but they're a bit over rated, if you ask me.