Re: Intel Macs with Hardy 'no bootable devices'
My experience with a triple-boot malfunction may help some people out.
My triple boot is explained here.Long story short,
I installed Boot Camp, repartitioned the new Boot Camped partition to accommodate Vista AND Ubuntu and installed both. When I held the Options key, I would have a choice between Mac and Windows. To get to Linux, I would press Windows which would put me into GRUB where I would have a choice between Ubuntu and Vista.
So Boot Camp Option Key=
Mac=Mac
Windows=Windows or Linux(GRUB)
To clean install 8.04, I deleted the Ubuntu 7.10 partition and its swap and installed 8.04. But then when I held the Option key at boot-up, it only gave me an option for Mac. Whoops.
So Boot Camp Option Key=
Mac=Mac and that's it
Enter rEFIt. Intalled rEFIt and after syncing it gave me a choice of Mac, Linux, and Windows. But when I choose Linux, it sticks on the gray tux page and stays there. When I choose Windows, it kicks me over to GRUB like before where I have the choice between Ubuntu and Vista.
So rEFIt menu =
Mac=Mac
Linux=nothing
Windows=Windows or Linux(GRUB)(like before)
Hope this helps.
And I'm getting ready to get rid of the Vista partition.
1)Zero out the hard drive.
2)Repartition with gParted LiveCD.
3)MacOS(10.4 no more boot camp)
4)Ubuntu 8.04
5)rEFIt
I'll update the progress.
Last edited by Hatfield; April 29th, 2008 at 06:51 PM.
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