Dual Boot & Chameleon

[cakemonitor]

I've recently installed Lion on my D520, and it's working fine - thanks to everyone here who made it possible!

 

However, I left space for a Linux partition and I'm having problems getting Chameleon to recognise the Ubuntu install; I've reinstalled Ubuntu 13.10 five times now (and after each unsuccessful attempt I've used a partition editor to remove the Linux and swap partitions - back to unallocated / free space), and I've tried:

• letting the Ubuntu installer auto configure the partitions + bootloader location (while installing alongside Mac OS X)
• manually defining the Linux partition and installing GRUB for the entire drive
• I've also tried a manual install and putting GRUB on just the Ubuntu partition

...but after any of these methods when I reinstate Chameleon by booting from the myHack USB, it never detects the Linux partition and I'm unable to load Ubuntu.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

[cakemonitor]

P.S. If I install GRUB for the entire drive, then on boot it loads Linux fine and GRUB also recognises "Mac OS X 32 bit" and "Mac OS X 64 bit" but both fail to load. Combine that with the fact that Chameleon has a prettier graphical interface and it's clear that's the way I should go

[rosmaniac]

You need to have Ubuntu install the bootloader on the partition containing /boot (either the / partition or the separate /boot).

 

You then need to use a tool like GPT fdisk (gdisk) to change the 'type' of that partition to '0700'

 

See https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/5902-dualboot-installing-linux-after-mavericks/ for more information and a success story.

[cakemonitor]

Cool, I've got it working now. Thanks!

[rosmaniac]

Excellent.  You're very welcome, glad it worked!