Had anyone here used rEFIT and if so, why?

[DRE]

Shouldn't be too difficult, I think you should be able to just make 3 partitions in Disk Util and boot from the install CDs for the other OSs (hold option during startup to select the CD). While in the OS installers use them to format the partitions correctly.

Then after you're all done install rEFInd (an updated fork of rEFIt, should have mentioned before in this thread) so you can choose your OS on startup. http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Thanks! Gonna check that link out now. I want to install Linux Mint. http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php

 

[Anthony Parsons]

So to run os at a time 4gb of ram is ok but i need to upgrade to at least 16 gb to dual boot windows and mac osx? Wtf?

Yes... for exactly what Chris outlined (quote below). If you're running mac and windows uniquely, ie. boot one or the other, 4gb will do the trick. If you want to run mac and then other OS's in a virtual environment with VMWare or Parallels or such software, then you're going to want 16gb to do it correctly.

I would expect that is in the context of running the second OS in a virtual machine.

 

[DRE]

Might as well update this thread.

I use refind and it's really easy to install. All you do is drag the install.sh file into Terminal.

I learned to choose 'pre-allocate disk space' and 'organize into 2GB files' for VMWare Fusion.

Still switching to Parallels later.

http://www.diaramble.com/Post/Compu...ve-performance-of-VMWare-Fusion-with-16GB-Ram

 

[Deleted member 2163]

rEFIt is necessary because the mac will not recognize a linux partition as a bootable partition (especially one with grub installed).

I recently installed Linux Mint 14 after much finagling on my old late 2008 MBP, and rEFIt was absolutely necessary to boot from that OS.

On that note, if you have problems with the installer crashing or freezing, edit the grub bootloader of the live usb/live cd to add nomodeset. This will prevent nvidia hardware from crashing the process.