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OS Selector OS

I've been working on my PC for a while now and have reached a problem of sorts..

 

I technically have a "triple boot" system with Windows 7, OS X.9, and Ubuntu 14.04.

For choosing which OS I want to boot into, I've been manually plugging and

un-plugging sata cables on my drives. This, has become annoying, so what I would

like to know is; Is there any sort of mini-OS I could run off a USB thumb drive that

would pop up a clean GUI for choosing which OS to boot into? And, If not, could 

someone make me one like in the attached picture that I made in Photoshop really

quickly? (Settings would just be like to rename the OSs & change the wallpaper

 

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Thanks!

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Every OS has a boot manager.

Linux based OSs, like Windows.

Windows-8-triple-boot-with-Windows-7-and

(Sorry could not find a better triple boot menu picture beside this shot of camera pointed at the screen)

The above is Windows 8 one, it is also supports touch screens.

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i suppose you could put yumi multiboot with your OS ISOs onto a flash drive and make it look fancy, but that would really only be good for live boots, nothing permanent

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I've had some friends tell me about different OS selectors, but they all seem to be pretty, well, ugly..

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Every OS has a boot manager.

Linux based OSs, like Windows.

Windows-8-triple-boot-with-Windows-7-and

(Sorry could not find a better triple boot menu picture beside this shot of camera pointed at the screen)

The above is Windows 8 one, it is also supports touch screens.

 

 

 

GoodBytes, I'm aware of OS selectors being built into OSs. While I would do that, I've had problems with multi-partition systems in the past, and didn't want to do that here.

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Well all I can think about, is building a switch and mod it to your case, which will switch the power or SATA cable to each drive, if you have trouble configuring boot managers. Just an idea.

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You want Chameleon bootloader. It's themeable and does exactly what you want.

You guys are crazy. You know you guys are self-destructive. There's a funny farm somewhere and it's got your names written all over it. But I'm gettin' outta here.

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