Comments on: Booting Ubuntu With The Chameleon Bootloader

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:59:46 +0000

Glad I could help, Brian!

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:41:13 +0000

Dude you rock! I just spent the whole weekend trying to get my 2 old hard drives (OSX & Ubuntu) transfered onto one new drive. I’ve lost track of how many dual boot guides I’ve tried, and every single one of them had me trying to boot OSX from grub….and failing. Thanks for pointing out the right way to do it.

By: Nut

Nut — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:38:39 +0000

For those still having issues, make sure the Ubuntu partition is a PRIMARY partition (you may need to run a GParted Live CD or something and partition it yourself. And when installing Ubuntu, set the mount point of the partition yourself to “/”) The swap can be an extended partition if necessary. For me, Chameleon worked perfectly and displayed the Ubuntu option after installing Ubuntu without even reinstalling Chameleon.

By: Sree

Sree — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:46:30 +0000

Hi Thomas,
I am trying to triple boot the system with XP, ubuntu and Mac osx leopard 10.5.7
No matter which one I install last (linux or leopard) the bootloader of the respective one takes over. Im using chameleon v2.
If I install Mac last, Chameleon does not show the Linux partition.
if if install linux last, even though grub would show mac as a os option to load, it just goes blank when I select it.
I dont mind either bootloader and the main one. as long as it lets me properly boot into any of the OS systems.
Any help would be great.
I havent tried it yet but I was wondering if i install mac without the chameleon boot and then install linux, will that avoid the conflict.
Any help would be great!
Thanks

Sree
PS: XP loads properly no matter which bootloader is being used.
Edit:
Hi
Sry!! forgot to mention that as of now Mac was installed last so im getting the chameleon bootloader showing only windows and mac OS options.
Sree

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:10:59 +0000

While your point is valid, Chameleon can also boot all three OS’s, has more features than GRUB, and is much more attractive.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:39:21 +0000

Just use grub; it boots into Windows, OSx86, Ubuntu and whatever else. First install 0SX and create a partition map using Disk Utility. Give maybe a third to Leopard. Then install Windows. With Windows make another partition in your free space, but leave 10 gigs or something. Then run the LIVE Cd with Ubuntu and install to a partition covering almost the rest of the drive. Ubuntu installs grub AUTOMATICALLY and will find Leopard and Windows as if it’s completely normal that they would show up on your drive. You can then boot into all three.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:51:38 +0000

Thanks Thomas.

re my post below:
I was waiting until I had a solution before posting again, and The Almighty Google didn’t hand me the solution, so I had to try using my brain. My solution (in case anyone else needs it), was to change the root reference that grub sees, from (hd0,0) to (hd1,0). I added a new listing to menu.lst. Now I boot from Chameleon to grub to Ubuntu.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:27:04 +0000

Error 17 is a Grub error and I unfortunately do not know enough about Grub/Ubuntu to offer a solution. A quick google search for "ubuntu error 17" returned this site and the solution may work for you. Good luck and sorry I wasn't able to help more.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:21:32 +0000

Thanks for the great guide, very clear and helpful. I have Mac on one drive and Ubuntu on the other, and Chameleon now sees both the Mac and the Linux drive and I can boot to either… almost. Selecting Linux gets me to grub just fine, but Ubuntu fails to load with Error 17 (cannot mount selected partition). I suspect there’s something wonky with my setup – does this seem like an easy fix? (“/” for me was “/dev/sda1″)

By: tino

tino — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:44:41 +0000

Thank you this is exactly what I was looking for.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:06:57 +0000

Glad you were able to resolve the issue!

By: Vincent Gerris

Vincent Gerris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:37:28 +0000

Thanks for your quick reply Thomas, i fixed as followed:
– boot ubuntu live cd
– sudo grub
– look in Gparted for partiotions, confirmed boot = /dev/sda4
– in grub type root and then TAB through : hd0 shows 0-4 partitions,
so i need hd0,3
– type in grub : root (hd0,3)
– then : setup (hd0,3)
then quit, exit , reboot.
Then it showed up in Chameleon, and heck, it boots :)!.
Thanks for your tuotorial, hope this helps any1 else!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:57:30 +0000

Boot to the Ubuntu LiveCD and run Partition Editor (GParted). Then set your Ubuntu partition as active. Now run the command to install GRUB and it should work.

By: Vincent Gerris

Vincent Gerris — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:48:35 +0000

I installed OS X after ubuntu,so no way to boot it now for me.
I started the Ubuntu live cd en typed the command to install grub but it gave me the following error:
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
My / partition is /dev/sda2 , my boot /dev/sda4 .
So I have /boot on a seperate partition.
Any ideas on how tofi this?

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:18:10 +0000

OK, reinstalling Chameleon from iatkos dvd worked! I reinstalled U64 and this time directed the grub location to the logical part and it now shows and boots under Chameleon, great!