[Mactel-linux-users] Partition number in triple boot

[Felipe S. <do...@gm...>]

Hi everyone. I am trying to get my Macbook Pro to tripe boot OSX, XP and Linux.
Now, what I did was the following:
1. Install OSX on the HDD in one partition spanning the whole disk
2. Use BootCamp (2.0) to split off 32GB for WindwosXP
3. Install XP + updates
4. Shrink MacOSX partition to 25GB to make space for a linux install
5. Shrink WinXP partiion from 32GB to 30GB to make space for a swap
partition behind XP
6. Partition the space between OSX and XP to ext3

Now. XP wont boot anymore and gives me a hal.dll error. This error
comes when XP is not on the last visible partition to EFI (IIRC)
That surprised me, as I thought that my partition scheme looked like this:
1.EFI
2.OSX
3. Linux (EXT3)
4. WinXP
5.SWAP

Which should not have been a problem, as WinXP only sees up to
partition 4 and thus itself as being on the last partition. Linux
being EFI-aware should be able to see swap though.
I veryfied the GTP and MBR scheme and this is what I got and what surprised me:
GPT:
#   Start-LBA     End-LBA        Type
1   40                409639           EFI
2  409640          52576295       MacOSX HFS+
3  323404515   386523899       EFI
4 386523900    390716864       SWAP
5 52580745      323404514      Basic Data

MBR:
#      Start-LBA    End-LBA       Type
1      1                   409639       EFI Protective
2      409639          52576295    MacOSX HFS+
3      323404515   386523899    NTFS
4      386523900   390716864    SWAP

Now, If I were to order them by LBA Start/End, it would make more
sense, then in the GPT table the partitions 1 and 2 would stay, but
number 3 would become number 4 (the NTFS partition), number 5 would
become number 3 (the linux ext3 partition) and number 4 would become 5
(the swap parition).

If with some magic the order could be changed without changing the LBA
Start/End parts, thus, just reordering the table itself, without
touching the partitions, and then syncing the GPT table to MBR I
should be able to boot my configuration and proceed...
If it is not possible, what is the correct order to achieve such a GPT
table? If I partition first, I dont know how to get the MacBook to go
hybrid allowing for advanced grafics under Linux (and probably
windows), as that is done by Bootcamp IIRC.

Thank you very much

-- 
Felipe Sere