Just wondering if anyone knows of a custom bootloader that would be capable of doing the following... Here's the setup I have a machine that has 3 hard drives, each hard drive has a different OS (Ubuntu, Windows and OSX 10.6). What I want to do is load a bootloader onto a flash drive and then have the machine boot to the flash drive. Then it would load a GRAPHICAL loader where I could select the "icon" based on the OS and it would boot to the correct hard drive. Does anything like this exist? I know GRUB can do something like this but it's not cool looking... And I want cool damn it lol Thanks for your time
Not sure how useful this would be but a quick google: http://agnipulse.com/2010/09/graphical-boot-loader-burg/ http://www.ovenproof-linux.com/2010/10/installing-and-configuring-graphical.html http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/InstallWindows
I used to use the Chimera bootloader to select between OS X & Windows; it was actually part of the process of installing OS X on a PC. You mention that the machine has OS X.... Is this a real Mac or a "hackintoshed" PC? If it's a "hackintoshed" machine, have a look at the TonyMac blog - I think it's pretty much the "home" of this bootloader. If it's a real Mac, I'm not sure how you'd fare with Chimera...
BURG. It can be a bit of a pain to install / get working correctly though. Its just a nice front end for grub2. If you spend the time to make sure grub2 is configured perfect first you will have a lot less problems. I would definitely advise making your linux disc primary and installing it there. Also installing through burg-manager rather than the base burg package makes things a lot easier.
