How to Triple boot MacOSX Mountain Lion, Windows 7, and Ubuntu


Triple boot

MAC Mountain Lion, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 12.04
Ok.

I need to write this tutorial while it’s still fresh in my mind. I’m very happy that once again after days of hard work, I finally succeeded this challenge. To boot three (3) different operating system is too hard, aside  they aren’t play nice with each other you must also consider some hardware issues.
I almost got crazy doing it over and over again. Why? Because it is fun to prove theories. And I need it in my everyday life as IT Professional. And the best of all, it is worth it when you finally succeeded.

To end this introduction, let me now start the tutorial.

Ingredients:

  1. Intel I7, Gigabyte Mobo, 8gig RAM, GeForce 7500GT, and 1TB WD HDD
  2. Downloaded MAC OSX ML Virtual Virtual Machine(VM)
  3. USB Flash Drive 8gb
  4. Unibeast, Multibeast, Kextwizard, Secrets, and boot0  
  5. Buy and download Install OS X Mountain Lion from Apple
  6. Ubuntu 12.04 (CD Installer)
  7. Buy Windows 7 64bit (DVD Installer)
  8. Cup of coffee
  9. Patience

Steps:
  1. On mobo's BIOS go to SATA Control Mode  change it to "AHCI"
  2. Change HPET mode to 64-bit mode
  3. Prepare your Windows PC (I assume)
  4. Run downloaded MAC OSX (VM) with Virtual Box
  5. Copy  Install OS X Mountain Lion inside the Applications folder
  6. Insert 8gb USB flash drive and mount it on your running Mac OSX VM
  7. Format 8gb USB flash drive use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) name it OSXInstaller
  8. Download and Run Unibeast (Inside Mac OSX Virtual Machine!)
  9. Choose the 8gb USB flash drive, Click Next…
  10. Then wait for a minute. Click Finish when it’s done
  11. Now you have successfully created a bootable USB Mac OSX Mountain Lion!
  12. Now restart the PC and set the USB as first boot device in Mobo’s BIOS
  13. Save and Restart PC
  14. In the Unibeast boot menu, Select OSXInstaller
  15. Wait until the language selection in MAC OSX Installation shows up
  16. Go to Disk Utility and Set 4 Partition, Set GUID Partition Table in partition option
  17. MAC(200gig) "Mac OSX (Extended Journaled)"- To be use as my main OS
  18. Windows(80gig) "MS-DOS FAT32"- To be use as my auxiliary OS
  19. Data(700gig) "MS-DOS FAT32" - To be use as storage for all files
  20. Linux(20gig) "MS-DOS FAT32" - To be use as my auxiliary OS
  21. After partitioning, Install MAC OSX Mountain Lion into MAC Partition
  22. Zip a cup of coffee
  23. After Mac OSX Installation, it will restart automatically and boot into Unibeast again
  24. Select MAC Operating System you installed, then set your preferences and profiles
  25. Next, log in as root
  26. In Finder Preferences tick Hard disk. External disk, and CDs, DVDs, and iPods 
  27. Extract Secrets.zip and use Secrets to show hidden files
  28. Copy boot file and Extra folder from Unibeast(USB) to MacOSX Partition
  29. Run Multibeast. In Drivers & Bootloaders, select Chimera v2 under Bootloaders
  30. Then click continue to install Chimera v2. 
  31. When its done, run Kext Wizard. Select Extra(Repair permissions and Rebuid mkext)
  32. And System/Library/Extensions(Repair permissions) dont select Rebuild cache. Then click Execute
  33. Eject Unibeast(USB), and reboot MacOSX. Then go to mobo's BIOS
  34. Check if your 1TB WD HDD is set to boot first. When you proceed to boot the HDD
  35. Then it will shows boot0: GPT test error. Because we are using 1TB HDD, a.k.a 4k drives 
  36. So you need too boot Unibeast(USB) again. Select OSXInstaller
  37. In Disk Utility, unmount MacOSX Partition. Then go to Terminal(Still in Mac Installation)
  38. Then do this command. (But if you have 500gb HDD below you don't need to do this) 

  39. Exit Terminal and reboot
  40. Go to mobo's BIOS and set 1TB WD HDD as first boot device 
  41. Now you shouldn't see that error again and it must boot into Unibeast boot Menu without USB
  42. Since we have successfully booting MacOSX. Now its time to install Windows 7 64bit
  43. Go to mobo's BIOS and set CD/DVD as first boot device
  44. Insert and install Windows 7 to its Partition. Set your preferences and profiles
  45. In Windos 7, go to Disk Management, Quick Format Data partition. Use NTFS 
  46. Restart windows. Insert Ubuntu 12.04 CD Installer, select Install Ubuntu
  47. Install Ubuntu in Linux partition, Install boot loader in /dev/sda (Not in Ubuntu partition)
  48. After Ubuntu installation. login as root
  49. Copy boot0 inside Ubuntu root folder (/)
  50. Edit grub, gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  51. Goto terminal and "apt-get install gptsync" (without quotes)
  52. Next, align partition by entering "gptsync /dev/sda", then  type "y" to proceed (without quotes)
  53. Reboot Ubuntu. it should boot into Grub menu
  54. Test if all Operating Systems are working, If you need to use MacOSX just select Chimera   
  55. All done. Enjoy your triple boot Operating System...

If you successfully made it, don't forget to leave a feedback below,
or  if you have any comments and suggestions just e-mail me
I appreciate it very much..

Good luck!

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