Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, now what?

Re:Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, n... by mellis on Sunday June 14, 2009 @04:06AM (#656940)

I have Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux running on my unibody 13" MacBook. There are a couple of things to watch out for. You can only have three partitions, because the GPT / MBR synching only supports four and one is used as an EFI partition. Windows has to be the last partition or it won't boot. The Bootcamp software will only create split your partition into two (three, with the EFI partition) - just use disk utility or the diskutil command line tool to do the partitioning. Make a backup first.

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Re:Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, n... by blogimus on Sunday June 14, 2009 @04:09AM (#656944)

Thanks. I was considering 4 partitions. One for each OS and a small FAT partition to share among all (damn licensing on NTFS and windows incompatibility with EXT anything.

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Re:Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, n... by codeodor on Sunday June 14, 2009 @09:44AM (#657086)

When I set Windows up on mine, I could not see the Mac partition from it, nor read/write without extra paid software. The software works so smoothly I could not recall its name since I've never had to interact with it. (Having looked it up now, it's called MacDrive).

I don't know how Windows-Linux, and Mac-Linux partition connections are visible between each other without similar pieces of software.

I do know that Mac was able to see Windows just fine for reading, but writing anything was impossible.

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