HOWTO: Linux on the Intel iMac - Triple booting

Apple realized some time ago that people might want to dual-boot their new machines so they created Boot Camp. Indeed, Boot Camp does make it easy to dual-boot and they even give you all of the drivers needed to make Windows support their hardware... but what about triple-booting? Maybe someday the Boot Camp developers will implement triple-booting but for now it only supports dual-boot.



While Intel Macs are very similar to traditional PC machines there are a number of differences that make it challenging to setup a triple-boot scenario. The first thing is that they use an EFI type BIOS. The second thing is that they use a GPT (GUID Partition Table) type partitioning scheme rather than MBR. While GPT isn't as common yet, GPT is the wave of the future mainly because hard drive sizes are constantly growing.

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