T-T-T-Triple Boot

I recently got my MacBook Pro to triple boot Leopard, Vista, and Fedora 8 x86_64 (since yes - the Intel Core 2 Duo is a 64-bit processor.)

The most comprehensive How-To that I came across was from onmac.net which worked for me except for a couple caveats. First you want to make sure that whatever version of linux you choose that you get the 64-bit version. Second, when creating your disk partitions using diskutil the how-to suggested:

sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 60G "Linux" "Linux" 17G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 15G

The diskutil that ships with Leopard doesn't know what format "Linux" is (and neither do I, maybe that means ext3?) but since you will be formatting that partition and further partitioning it when you get to the install step for linux you simply need to set it to something, it doesn't matter what. So instead try:

sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 60G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Linux" 17G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 15G

Third, I used rEFIt as my main boot loader and I didn't want to wait forever to boot into linux I set the timeout in my grub.conf to 0

Final note: Compiz-Fusion was fairly easy to get running this guy has a pretty good tutorial on how to do it.