Dual boot MacOSX and Fedora 10.
- December 6th, 2008
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This was on a MacBook Pro (Powerbook G4 – Early 2008 model) running Leopard.
I went through the bootcamp procedure, and chose to install Windows.
I carved out 50GB of the 200GB drive.
Installed Fedora 10 on that partition.
I installed the boot loader on the partition, NOT the MBR.
I found that it would always boot up Fedora at that point.
I thought that I had messed up the boot record at that point, so I tried to boot of the CD.
That was when I discovered the “Hold down C at boot to force boot off CD.”
I did a repair on my MacOSX partition. All checked out fine, as I had expected.
Then, I discovered the “Hold down the “option” key at boot to view all your boot options.
There they were “MacOSX” and “Windows”.
I am currently using this to boot the different operating systems.
download a boot menu called ReFit.
this will save you the hassle of holding down the option key. linux destroys your MBR by and makes itself the default OS, but this is certain to help!