Kappy wrote:
Startup Disk preferences can be used to permanently choose any bootable volume as a startup volume regardless of what OS is installed on it. This includes single drives with multiple bootable partitions. So if you have OS X and Windows on the same drive you use Startup Disk to set the default boot partition.
If you install Unix, then you no longer can use Boot Camp for Windows because Boot Camp does not permit three partitions on the drive.
You can also use Startup Disk if you put each OS on a separate drive except for Unix. I'm not sure why you want to use Unix when OS X is Unix.
Boot Camp will not dual boot OS X and Unix. Only OS X and Windows. Boot Camp has no support for Unix.
I get it, now that I have looked at Startup Disk preferences again. I have not yet used Bootcamp. I use Parallels to run Window in my OSX drive.
I should have been more specific. I actually want to run the Ubuntu build of Linux. More of a learning thing than any specific need. I am running it now, but using Vbox, which is a free virtualization manager from Oracle. Parallels did not want to install Ubuntu.
This might turn out to be shortlived anyway; so maybe best to leave well enough alone. Helped me to understand Boot Camps provisions. Thanks