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Triple Booting an Intel Mac the Right Way

Posted by timothy on from the use-three-boots dept.

Miah Clayton writes "In the past, installing Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows on an Intel mac meant that you were forced into only having 3 usable partition slots due to the MBR/GPT hybrid limitations. Steven Noonan figured out a way to avoid dealing with the MBR partition limit and have a Linux install that isn't performance-crippled by having a swap file instead of a swap partition."

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  1. GPT partitions by c_g_hills · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since Windows even now only recognizes the Master Boot Record (MBR) format

    This is untrue. 64bit versions of Windows support GPT, as do versions newer than Vista.

    Also, I don't have a problem using a swapfile. I see no performance difference at all.