Apple Dua boot support

Hello,
Can I have my mackbook Dual boot, where on one partition "C" I will have Snow lepord 10.x and on "D" I can install Lion or windows7?
Thanks,
Gaurav Thakur.

Yes, for different versions of OS X. However, Boot Camp will only support one OS X volume and one Windows volume. If you wish to install Windows independently of Boot Camp along with other OS partitions, then you will need a boot loader that will work. The one you want is rEFIt.

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