Leopard, Ubuntu and a FAT32 partition

[PartisanEntity]

Hi all,

I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to OS X tools and applications.

I installed rEFIt. Then I installed Ubuntu next to Leopard. So far so good, rEFIt gives me the option to either boot Leopard or Ubuntu. Great.

I then proceeded to make a FAT32 partition which I would like to use to share files between the two operating systems. I placed this partition between the Leopard and Ubuntu partitions.

After creating the FAT32 partition, rEFIt removed Ubuntu as a booting option and replaced it with a Windows partition (i.e. the empty FAT32 partition).

I then proceeded to remove the FAT32 partition hoping Ubuntu would come back as a booting option, but even after resyncing rEFIt it still only offered me either Leopard or Windows (even though Windows is not installed).

I had to reinstall Ubuntu for it to show up again on the rEFIt menu.

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.

 

[applefan69]

I dont think your doing anything wrong, I think rEFIt is glitching up.

Luckily your on a mac and you dont even need rEFIt... when your booting your mac, hold the option/alt key as you press the power button, and keep holding it. Instead of the mac doing a normal boot, it will give you a screen that lets you choose a partition to boot from. That should work MUCH less glitchingly then rEFIt seems to.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I dont think your doing anything wrong, I think rEFIt is glitching up.

Luckily your on a mac and you dont even need rEFIt... when your booting your mac, hold the option/alt key as you press the power button, and keep holding it. Instead of the mac doing a normal boot, it will give you a screen that lets you choose a partition to boot from. That should work MUCH less glitchingly then rEFIt seems to.

I can tell you that, from personal experience, I could not get Linux and Mac OS X to coexist via Boot Camp. The boot loader refused to install, and then neither Mac OS X nor Linux would boot.

 

[PartisanEntity]

I dont think your doing anything wrong, I think rEFIt is glitching up.

Luckily your on a mac and you dont even need rEFIt... when your booting your mac, hold the option/alt key as you press the power button, and keep holding it. Instead of the mac doing a normal boot, it will give you a screen that lets you choose a partition to boot from. That should work MUCH less glitchingly then rEFIt seems to.

Could it be a limititation in the Mac? When I had this issue, I briefly removed rEFIt and tried holding down the option/alt key, yet it too only gave me either Leopard or the empty FAT32 partition to boot from.

I'm afraid to try it again because I have Ubuntu set up nicely right now