10/04/2009, 05:52 AM
As some of you may know I destroyed the XP installation that, until about 5:00PM yesterday lived on my laptop. I'm not too pissed off as I have backups aplenty and its also an opportunity to mess around with another OS. My plan is to Triple-Boot XP, Kalyway Mac OSX (Just so I can see what all the hype is about), and then some extra space for something else like a Linux distro or a Win7 Beta.
If I was doing this on my desktop it would be easy as I would just give each OS its own hard drive. Of course with a laptop that's slightly more difficult. (I do have an extra hard drive bay but Toshiba have moulded plastic pegs into the cover so you can't do anything with it. Bastards.) What I need is a bootloader to choose upon boot which OS to use. I've never used or needed one before, so I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. I've done a bit of digging and come across a few such as GRUB but I have no idea how to install and set them up.
That's where YOU come in...
If I was doing this on my desktop it would be easy as I would just give each OS its own hard drive. Of course with a laptop that's slightly more difficult. (I do have an extra hard drive bay but Toshiba have moulded plastic pegs into the cover so you can't do anything with it. Bastards.) What I need is a bootloader to choose upon boot which OS to use. I've never used or needed one before, so I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. I've done a bit of digging and come across a few such as GRUB but I have no idea how to install and set them up.
That's where YOU come in...