MacOS – Can’t make more than two partitions

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I want to multiboot my MacBook Pro, I'm trying to make partitions but in Disk Utility I can't make my partitions, only can divide by 2? Why?
It's a normal SSD not a fusion drive (SSD+HD).

Now I'm fresh installing my Mac with internet recovery… (Second time) but this time in Disk Utility by internet recovery instead click on erase I clicked in partitions and make a partition named Macintosh HD.

What I'm doing wrong?

Outputs:

diskutil list: 

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *249.8 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 36635140-167F-4638-BF3C-4477ADAA6B21
                                 Unencrypted

diskutil cs list:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group C9D6D11C-1A54-4134-9F20-0DDEF2F0FCB2
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
    Free Space:   18882560 B (18.9 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume F1B297D0-081B-4E58-B1CB-7441FEF5F64D
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 57E0CBD7-461B-4E2A-87E5-B1B3B8B1FFE5
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 36635140-167F-4638-BF3C-4477ADAA6B21
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          249769230336 B (249.8 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0:

gpt show: disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6         
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  488555536      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  488965176    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  490234712          7         
  490234719         32         Sec GPT table
  490234751          1         Sec GPT header

Best Answer

To be able to create a multi-boot environment you have to revert from a CoreStorage partition layout to a standard partition layout.

  1. Start to internet recovery mode by pressing altcmdR while booting.
  2. Open Terminal.app in the menubar Utilities → Terminal
  3. enter diskutil cs revert LVUUID and hit the ⏎ key.
    (LVUUID is the Logical Volume UUID. You get it by entering diskutil cs list in Terminal.app)
    In your case it's diskutil cs revert 36635140-167F-4638-BF3C-4477ADAA6B21.
    If your CoreStorage Volume is tagged as 'revertible' this command should convert your CoreStorage volume to a standard volume non-destructively.
  4. Enter 'exit' when the conversion is finished and quit Terminal.app.
  5. Open Disk Utility and partition your SSD as you need.
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