jorwex Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Is it possible to do a GUID partition map and have a triple bootable system on a single hard disk? I know you can do tricky things with rEFIt and gptsync, but I'm getting a bit confused because of the 4 partition limit for MBR based HDDs. For instance, for a setup with Linux and Windows, you'd have 5 partitions with this setup potentially... 1. EFI Partition 2. OSX 3. Windows 4. Linux Swap 5. Linux I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around it and determining the what order to install each one, when to use gptsync, etc.. I don't mind what bootloader is used in the end (Windows', Chameleon, GRUB, etc..). Thanks for the help. I couldn't find a post that catered to this particular situation in my searches. I know this is very possible with a second HDD...just by making it GUID and slapping OSX on that disk. Is it possible to do a GUID partition map and have a triple bootable system on a single hard disk? I know you can do tricky things with rEFIt and gptsync, but I'm getting a bit confused because of the 4 partition limit for MBR based HDDs. For instance, for a setup with Linux and Windows, you'd have 5 partitions with this setup potentially... 1. EFI Partition 2. OSX 3. Windows 4. Linux Swap 5. Linux I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around it and determining the what order to install each one, when to use gptsync, etc.. I don't mind what bootloader is used in the end (Windows', Chameleon, GRUB, etc..). Thanks for the help. I couldn't find a post that catered to this particular situation in my searches. I know this is very possible with a second HDD...just by making it GUID and slapping OSX on that disk. Very sorry...meant to post this in the Multi Booting and Virtualisation forum! My apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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