Triple Booting Windows 8.1, XP and Yosemite on MBP

Apples555

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I have a somewhat curious issue. I'm trying to set up a triple boot on my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4 with Windows 8.1, XP and Yosemite (OS X).

Can it be done?

My machine can't pull off a VM. All three OSes run fine independently on the machine so drivers aren't an issue. Right now, I'm dual booting with OS X and 8.1. Here is the disk.

/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Yosemite 100.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 149.7 GB disk0s3

I think the issue will be the Windows bootloader. IIRC it prefers to have Windows first for the older OSes like XP.

Has anyone tried something like this?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Apple MacBook Pro
    CPU
    Core 2 Duo 2.4
    Memory
    4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce 320M
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 PRO 250GB SSD
Anyone?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Apple MacBook Pro
    CPU
    Core 2 Duo 2.4
    Memory
    4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce 320M
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 PRO 250GB SSD
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