Dual-Boot Mavericks/Chromium-OS MBR+Chimera+NO-EFI+NO-GUID

[themacmeister]

Yes, you read that title correctly. I have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed and running sweetly on my Acer Aspire 4752 (see my thread on insanelymac). This ridiculous laptop has a locked-down BIOS that does not support GUID partitions to boot from the HDD. I tried everything in my power, and eventually formatted as MBR, patched the installer, and went with an MBR install.

I have been experimenting with Chromium OS (latest AMD64 nightly from ArnoldTheBat) and it is superb, all hardware works, and I can read OSX drive (will never write to it, as it corrupts journaled HFS Extended badly).

I can install Chromium OS to the hard drive with a simple shell command, but I want to dual-boot.

There are instructions here for a netbook multi-boot, and it seems to have some good advice.

http://lifehacker.com/5820358/how-to-turn-your-netbook-into-a-chromebook-with-chromium-os

Also some great advice on this forum -> http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/93017-dual-booting-hackintosh-linux.html

Remember, I have MBR formatted HFS+ Extended journaled drive (500GB) so resizing is going to be very troublesome, if it is even possible?!

I currently have Chromium OS on an 8GB flash drive, so I guess all I need is the same amount of space? It may be compressed on the stick... Could need a FAT32 transfer partition as well (meaning more than 4 partitions on MBR!)

Any help or advice gratefully accepted!

Cheers.

 

[themacmeister]

It appears that if you set the Chromium OS boot partition type to Windows (as in the second link), it will show up as a Tux icon in Chimera.

I am using Chimera 3.x btw.

Cheers.