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Hey Guys,

So I have my parts finalized now, but I need advice for Triple-Booting. I plan to triple-boot

Windows 8.1
Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)
OS X Yosemite

Completely new to me, so give me all the advice!

Thanks guys!
 
Hey Guys,

So I have my parts finalized now, but I need advice for Triple-Booting. I plan to triple-boot

Windows 8.1
Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)
OS X Yosemite

Completely new to me, so give me all the advice!

Thanks guys!

install OS X first, then windows then ubuntu.

If you're going to use imessage now is the perfect time to change to clover. If you have an uefi motherboard then make sure you boot into that in bios before installing anything. less of a pain to switch over or migrate to later on.

make sure you add a grub in ubuntu so that it shows up in the bootloader.

If you are going to do a uefi system, you need to install ntfs.efi driver in clover to boot into windows from bootloader.

small tips of stuff i did to get my system working with triple boot. I had a legacy build and swtiching was a pain so i just did a fresh reinstall on uefi. works great. fast boots too compared to unibeast/multibeast.

edit: disable secure boot, and cms (from always to never) in bios.
 
Hey Guys,

So I have my parts finalized now, but I need advice for Triple-Booting. I plan to triple-boot

Windows 8.1
Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)
OS X Yosemite

Completely new to me, so give me all the advice!

Thanks guys!

I hope you plan on separate drives - one for each OS. Is much easier to install and maintain.
 
I hope you plan on separate drives - one for each OS. Is much easier to install and maintain.

This is also very true. I have an SSD strickly for my Mac os x. A 1 tb drive for Mac osx data. A 3 terabyte drive which has windows and ubuntu and a data partition.
 
I hope you plan on separate drives - one for each OS. Is much easier to install and maintain.

Thanks for that, yeah I am planning to have a 3TB Hard Drive partitioned in 1TB for each. Do you think that would be fine? Or would you recommend 3 separate 1TB Drives?
 
install OS X first, then windows then ubuntu.

If you're going to use imessage now is the perfect time to change to clover. If you have an uefi motherboard then make sure you boot into that in bios before installing anything. less of a pain to switch over or migrate to later on.

make sure you add a grub in ubuntu so that it shows up in the bootloader.

If you are going to do a uefi system, you need to install ntfs.efi driver in clover to boot into windows from bootloader.

small tips of stuff i did to get my system working with triple boot. I had a legacy build and swtiching was a pain so i just did a fresh reinstall on uefi. works great. fast boots too compared to unibeast/multibeast.

edit: disable secure boot, and cms (from always to never) in bios.

Thanks for that! But as I said, I am completely new, so I don't know what a 'grub' is or what 'clover' is. Can you give me more information?
 
Thanks for that! But as I said, I am completely new, so I don't know what a 'grub' is or what 'clover' is. Can you give me more information?

Grub is the Linux boot loader, Clover is one of the more popular OS X boot loaders.
If left to itself, the Linux installer will install Grub to the HDD MBR/PBR. This is not good when multi-booting on the same drive. You need to manually set up your Linux partitions and force installation of grub either to the root partition ( / ) or to a created boot partition ( /boot) to be able to boot it from Clover.

If you want to install all 3 OS's on a single drive, I recommend you use Legacy Mode only settings in BIOS when installing all 3 of them. The guide at http://www.tonymacx86.com/snow-leop...multibooting-novice-updated-3-12-see-log.html will give you the basic idea.
 
Thanks for that, yeah I am planning to have a 3TB Hard Drive partitioned in 1TB for each. Do you think that would be fine? Or would you recommend 3 separate 1TB Drives?
HDDs or SSDs?
 
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