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Got it working for 3 usable partitions
Authored by: gabester on Mar 21, '07 10:51:21PM

Here's what I did:

1.) Started with OS X install and 1 partition on disk (of course, this is really disk0s2 since there's the hidden EFI partition.
2.) Ran Boot Camp Assistant, partitioned drive, installed Windows (Vista).
3.) Rebooted from Install DVD (Intel 10.4.6 or later only.)
4.) Ran "diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 <x>G partition3format ... name ... size "
5.) Ran "diskutil eraseVolume partition3format partition3name disk0s3"

In my experience if you've got a 10.4.8 Mac or newer that you're connecting your Multi-part Boot Camp Mac to in FireWire Target Disk Mode, it automatically does step 5 for you.

At this point I had OS X, a data partition, and Vista all installed and working. Then I got greedy and tried to split the data partition again and this killed my Vista installation.

Some of the other literature I've found online seems to indicate that your Windows boot partition has to be the #3 partition; but seemingly because of the MBR wrapper limitation of 4 partitions it definitely cannot be past the #4 partition.

Tomorrow I might try to go against Apple's GPT spec and eliminate the hidden EFI partition; then I should be almost able to run my system the way I want with 2 OS X boot volumes, 1 Windows boot volume, and a data drive shared between them.
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