What am I doing wrong ? Help :(

[Deadlemming2god]

I have been wrestling around with getting my machine to dual boot windows XP and OSx86.

 

Here's what I've attempted.

 

1. I have a working tigerx86 vmware image

2. I have a gentoo liveCD

3. I have a 60 GB hard drive on a dell 9300 laptop.

 

Steps I've taken-

1. I boot up a vmware virtual machine with connections to the tigerx86 image and my entire 60 GB hard drive. I have it set to boot from the gentoo liveCD

 

2. my 60GB HD has two existing partions: a stupid dell one dell one I could get ride of and a 50 GB partion I have Windows XP installed on. I create a new apple style partion with the remaining 10GB of space and restart the entire machine.

 

3. I boot up a vmware virtual machine again and dd the tigerx86 virtual drive into the 10GB apple style partion I created.

 

4. I use partion magic to set the 10 GB OSX86 partion active and reboot.

 

5. I get "Unable to load OS".....

 

6. I boot up with partion magic and set my windows partion active, it boots up fine.

 

7. I try to boot the 10 GB OSX86 partition with a vmware machine and still get "unable to load OS"..

 

 

What did I do wrong ? Please help, I've tried this a couple times...

 

I previously had linux installed here and it worked fine..

 

Thanks for any help