Lest you think the team at OnMac.net (you
know, the crowd that brought us the original Windows-on-Mac
bootloader) would pack it in now that Apple has moved into their turf with Boot Camp, they've come back with a new hack that allows
Boot Camp to be used to triple boot your Mac. That's right: no longer are you limited to a mere two operating systems
when you start your Mac. Now, you can have a choice of OS X, Windows XP and the Linux distro of your choice (they went
with gentoo). Their solution for this turns out to be fairly straightforward: rather than attempting to hack Boot Camp,
they've chained the lilo bootloader to run off of the Windows loader. So, Boot Camp still shows you just two options --
OS X and Windows XP -- but if you choose Windows, you then get a second set of choices, which lets you pick Linux or
XP. Now that this is done, we're waiting for someone to go to four: we really want to be able to boot into OS/2 Warp,
and we suspect the solution is just around the corner.OnMac triple boots Mac from Boot Camp
M. Perton|04.17.06
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April 17, 2006 4:45 PM
Lest you think the team at OnMac.net (you
know, the crowd that brought us the original Windows-on-Mac
bootloader) would pack it in now that Apple has moved into their turf with Boot Camp, they've come back with a new hack that allows
Boot Camp to be used to triple boot your Mac. That's right: no longer are you limited to a mere two operating systems
when you start your Mac. Now, you can have a choice of OS X, Windows XP and the Linux distro of your choice (they went
with gentoo). Their solution for this turns out to be fairly straightforward: rather than attempting to hack Boot Camp,
they've chained the lilo bootloader to run off of the Windows loader. So, Boot Camp still shows you just two options --
OS X and Windows XP -- but if you choose Windows, you then get a second set of choices, which lets you pick Linux or
XP. Now that this is done, we're waiting for someone to go to four: we really want to be able to boot into OS/2 Warp,
and we suspect the solution is just around the corner.All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
