Do not follow it unless you know what you are doing and most of all: create a backup first ! I will not take any responsibility for loss of data or wrecked OS installations (incl. NOTE: The following procedure is not without risk.
What if you want to share data between the two operating systems, for instance? Windows can’t access Mac’s HFS+ file system and Apple’s implementation of NTFS drivers to access Windows file systems is so buggy, they only dare to give you read access.
But BootCamp doesn’t give you enough flexibility. Once finished, you can select which OS to boot by pressing “alt” when the boot chime sounds.
It will ask you how much space you want to allocate for each environment, ask you for a Windows 8 or 10 ISO or CD-ROM, and then start the process.
Installing Windows 10 alongside with Mac OS is pretty straightforward with Apple’s BootCamp. Installation of VMWare to boot the raw Windows / Linux partition in OSX (optional).I'm only posting this because I've already searched this database and tried everything that I could find and nothing worked. The mac is from 2009, I've even tried installing ubuntu into virtual box and used dd to copy it to the flash drive, also made a backup image via dd of the virtual machine and tried restoring it to my second partition and neither of the two options have worked. And when I boot and select my flash drive to boot from that's when the screen flashes like any normal boot and throws the error. I do have refit, or actually refind which is a continuation of refit because refit isn't maintained anymore. so unfortunatly I can't even completely format a new copy of mac without downloading an image from the internet and copying it to a pen drive also. It doesn't accept any types of cds besides blanks. I'm currently trying to install windows 7 into VirtualBox to start trying from windows, so I'll respond when I do, but why has every attempt of mine failed after checking and rechecking to make sure I do it right, made sure I was dd to the disk and not the partition. I've now been trying for three weeks and and I have downloaded each Ubuntu many times and checked everyone of then and even installed them in VirtualBox. I only have the mac option for now so I'm not able to make a bootable USB on windows and every time I try to boot it says isolinux.bin missing or corrupted (except with the other program i don't recall what that error was, it was an early attempt.)
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 12.04, 13.04 and 13.10 onto my mac mini using every tutorial I could find using dd or even a program similar to UNetbootin for mac, and nothing seems to be working.