It will scan your disks, and show you yet another view of the drive. At partitioning, select the manual partition option. Install Ubuntu as you normally would, with two exceptions: partitioning, and the boot loader.Insert your Ubuntu media and reboot into the disk using rEFIt. Then select OS X and verify it boots properly. If it doesn’t need syncing, it will tell you. At rEFIt, select the partitioning tool to sync the GPT and MBR.Reboot and continue to do updates until there are no further updates. When rEFIt shows up, select the Windows install on the hard drive, and do all the Windows updates. Go through the “Boot Camp” driver auto-installer that autoruns, and then reboot. If you don’t have it, or you have a developer edition that doesn’t have those drivers built in, you can extract the drivers from the Boot Camp Assistant application or find them on the internet. This has all the drivers you need for your system. Windows will need to reboot twice while installing. I’ve tried mucking around in boot.ini and other files with no luck. Why don’t we make this easy and install Windows to the first FAT/NTFS partition? If Windows isn’t installed on the last partition in the MBR, it fails to install properly. From my experiments, it looks like Windows sets C: to the the active partition if there is one, otherwise it is first FAT/NTFS partition. See if there is a little asterisk next the partition we’re trying to install to. If a different partition is labeled C: than the Windows partition that we created at the beginning, quit the install, reboot into OS X, and go back to step 5. If I didn’t format the partition, after Windows reboots and tries to continue the install, I have gotten “Missing Operating System” errors, “hal.dll not found” errors, as well as any other excuse Windows can find for why it cannot boot. A FAT32 quick format and long format both work. I’ve tried this step in many, many ways, and the only times I’ve been successful I’ve done the following: Make sure that the install partition is labeled C: and is the last partition shown. The 200 meg EFI partition, and the first three partitions you defined. Once again, it’s going to see four partitions.
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