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Hello guys, now I want to ask something that is little bit offtopic (sorry about that). I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 alongside the OSX. I have installed OSX on external disk. Now if I make paration on the external disk a install Ubuntu there, will I be able to boot OSX a Ubuntu succesfully? Thanks for answer and sorry for offtopic.
If you're using Chameleon, yes but only if you do not do a UEFI install. The easiest way to avoid that accidentally happening is to remove bootx64.efi and the efi folder from the Ubuntu installation media (i.e. USB stick); leave the boot folder intact. This will insure that it can't boot UEFI.
For a setup of OS X and Ubuntu only, you will actually need 4 partitions, FAT 32 EFI partition, JHFS+ partition for OS X, Linux-Swap partition (size in mb of your ram 8gb=8192mb, 6gb=6144mb), and EXT4 partition for linux install. Make sure that the grub boot loader is installed to the EXT4 partition.
The EFI partition is created by OS X Disk Utility automatically if you select GUID Partition Table as the type...
See rehabmans "blog" for instructions on multiboot setups http://racerrehabman.wordpress.com