Vista, XP Pro x86 and Mac OSX on same PC... How? Install order and paritions?

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As the subject says...

I want to triple boot between Windows Vista B2, XP Pro x86 and Mac OSX. I
had no problem when I had XP and OSX dual booting with NTLDR, but Vista
trashes any kind of boot management as it assimilates the PC.

I never could understand why an OS has the need to trash a partition, or
part of the drive, not related to installation.
 
I have XP x86, x64, Server 2003 x86, x64, Vista x64 and OS X x86 on my
computer. I went through trial tribulations to get to work. The trick is
install OS X on a system partition, XP has to be on C: which has to be a
system, but also an active disk. The OS X drive will not be visible to
Windows.

I suggest you got to http://www.osx86project.org if you want help with this.
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As the subject says...

I want to triple boot between Windows Vista B2, XP Pro x86 and Mac OSX. I
had no problem when I had XP and OSX dual booting with NTLDR, but Vista
trashes any kind of boot management as it assimilates the PC.

I never could understand why an OS has the need to trash a partition, or
part of the drive, not related to installation.
Click to expand...

Many are deleting the Apple 200MB EFI partition before installing
Vista. It seems to be the best way to multi-boot with Vista.
Apparently, Vista does not like the EFI partition for some reason.

Deleting the EFI partition on an Intel Mac will not keep OS X from
booting. However, it will make it very difficult to upgrade the
firmware, and will probably have to be restored when upgrading the
Apple firmware.


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