Apple KB Article: Boot Camp doesn't work with multiple partitions

So, if i've correcly understood: i'm going to receive my MacBook Pro in a few days. I would have liked to partition the disk in 2 parts, one for the OS and the other for my user account. So i won't be able to use BootCamp to create a 3rd partition to install Windows? :(

What would happen if you partitioned your drive so there was one 20gb partition and the rest free space? There is technically only one partition. You can install OSX and Windows and then change the free space into another partition.

I don't have an intel Mac to try this out on.

Not sure if anyone else has this issue. On my imac 17" I installed bootcamp and installed XP. What I found is when booting now the system just stays at the Grey screen for OS X and a Black screen for XP. If I shutdown and restart it will boot.
Does it every time.

This was the first thing that came to my mind (after the "oh my!" upon release): what if you have an extra partition, or two? With the added benefit that it would be handy for sharing a certain set of documents between the two OS.

Every Mac goes through an install with me gets three partitions (OS - Actua - Archive); so as a minimum I see three partitions work (OS X - Actua - XP) for the dual boot scenario.

I hope apple will address this in the next release or by the time Leopard comes around.

The BootCamp assistant doesn't do anything except burn a driver CD and repartition. You can open the assistant package, locate the image is burns, and burn it manually or copy the exe off of it.

As for partitioning, "diskutil" now supports "resizeVolume" for HFS+ volumes, so if you have more partitions, just resize one and add a FAT32 partition (note that the syntax is VERY odd - read the man page!). Or, if you're just setting up your computer, create a FAT32 partition at the same time as your others.

"BootCamp" isn't necessary at all to install Windows; all you really need is the firmware update.

I also partition my hard drive. That is actually the first thing I do, when I get a new computer. This is what happened to my MacBook Pro as well.

I was suprised to see that Apple did not think about this. There are many people who partition their drives and split up their data. I hope that the solution is in the works.

I suggest you send Apple your feedback and let them know that you would like this feature to be added.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/