![]() I’m working on walkthroughs for setting up these quad-booting babies, but for now, here’s the guide I used primarily -> Note: I never bothered with turning off SIP and a couple other things in there and it still worked. ![]() I say this because I’ve gotten whimsical with resizing the partitions (with unbacked-up data on them) and after backtracking through some terminal commands, previously unbootable Win 10 and Ubuntu are back in action. So long as you run gdisk off of a live Ubuntu USB, and can rebless rEFInd, rEFInd should take care of the rest. Now, I haven’t attempted two Linux distros, but you may not even need to bother updating grub with every UEFI coup. All that being said, I have zero actual knowledge of how bootloaders work, why they get boinked up, and/or the code behind fixing them nonetheless, I can confidently say, with this set up, repairing the boot process is easy. How do I know? I’ve got two of them right now and I can either boot into any one of those OS’s natively, or virtualise the others in MacOS all from those same partitions. I can tell you it is possible to quad-boot MacOS, Win 10, Ubuntu 22.14 (or any Linux distro) and ChromeOS Flex on a MacBook Pro however, only on the model released the year before yours, otherwise known as the 11,2. I have both helpful and possibly unhelpful info to share. I didn't think it would be good enough to virtualize windows on and I just wanted this to work for performance reasons.Īs someone who has been obsessed with adding a fourth OS to my triple-booting 2012 MacBook Pro ever since the release of ChromiumOS, I can appreciate your struggles. The mid-2015 Macbook Pro has a gen 4 intel cpu and 16GB ram. ![]() Also, is there any other way to avoid using bootcamp altogether that is stable? Thanks and I realize I may have a number of questions here but what I'm really looking for is a confirmation that I am doing this a workable way, and if it's worth proceeding with. Is that correct? If so, how should I be installing the Linux installations? With a bios/mbr, or with UEFI? One final misunderstanding that I don't quite get is that while MacOS is a UEFI based operating system, Bootcamp Windows 10 installs are actually inside the APFS container with an MBR. I have done a little research on APFS and think I understand that what I had been using was One APFS volume that encompassed the other partitions and that it was unalterable under anything but the Bootcamp utility which would only remove it and everything in it. Each time I could only see a way to have one large APFS volume because it wouldn't show the other partitions with any room leftover in Disk Utility. Prior to installing Monterey, I tried to make two linux partition and leave a free space for windows using Gparted and also with Disk Utility under MacOS installer. Now I have started over again and have a freshly install Monterey and have not installed Bootcamp but the entire 1 TB SSD is formatted with APFS. I was able to force boot into Windows 10 using Plop boot manager, but that must have corrupted something because on the next boot it said it needed a recovery windows media. It booted correctly on each partition once or twice until suddenly Windows 10 wouldn't boot and neither would Kali. I got it all working, following the same process but then adding on the Kali linux install in the free space following Ubuntu. I wasn't sure if there would be some problems associated with that and I liked the idea of a clean Monterey install so I wiped the 1TB SSD with Parted Magic and reinstalled Monterey from a usb again. So, I tried a number of things but this left me with the only option which was to remove Bootcamp through MacOS which ended up destroying Ubuntu in the process and reallocating all the space back to MacOS. It wouldn't let me pass the error: "Windows 10 requires a media driver" and when I browsed both the already installed system (which I verified was still intact) or used a freshly created usb from The Media Creation Tool, Windows 10 could not find any relevant drivers. Something stranged happened to the Windows install where it reverted back to the install Windows ten screen. The setup worked great but after sometime, and I'm assuming a MacOs update, only the Ubunutu and MacOs partitions would boot. I have questions and problems and don't quite understand some fundamentals about the process. I followed this tutorial about a year ago on MacOs Catalina Machine to install Bootcamp, then shrink the partition within Windows 10, then install Ubuntu:
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