Dual Booting Ubuntu & OS X With rEFIt - A Nice Boot Manager For Intel Machines
Having installed Ubuntu 7.10 and OS X on my Macbook Pro on separate partions of the same drive I can select which OS I start up in by holding down ALT on start up. This allows me to select between ‘Macintosh HD’ (for OS X) and ‘Windows’ (for Ubuntu), but as I am running Ubuntu Linux and not Dirty Windows, I’d like it to say Ubuntu. I was going to change the OS X boot manager to achieve this (I don’t know how, it’s something to look into), but then I came across rEFIt which gives you a nice start up screen, drive icons and the correct names. Easy to install following the instructions on the website it looks really nice and works like a charm.
(I don’t have Windows installed but my start up screen looks the same minus the Windows icon - this is a grab from http://refit.sourceforge.net/img/screen2.png)