UPDATE 14 July 2008:

Can Darwin Bootloader boot another disk?

No, only the first 4 partitions where Darwin is installed.
EDIT: you can boot other Mac Disks wit boot-uuid flag: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=115636

Can I select Darwin Bootloader Default Boot Partition?

No, the default boot is the active partition.
It can not be changed with any configuration file, you can modify the source code if you want a different behaivor.

Which option does the Darwin Bootloader has?

See link: xnu-1228 / Boot Arguments

10x as usual for macgirl
I started to feel already about the fact that active partition is always default, getting chain0 file and using it in winxp boot.ini and changing the active partition to xp is a decent workaround. Second workaround is grub or lilo.

Why can't darwin_boot install in disk0s6?

And also, can you give me a way on how to change the partition number?

Thanks a lot

Darwin support up to 4 partition..more then that..it can't.

Typically Darwin/Mac OS can't work with Extended/Logical partition, but I seen some that have a working installation on them.

After Acronis Bootloader (need it for my wife and her vista). Ive got my darwin bootloader for my Leo4All v3.
Ive got 4 partitions 2 of the are active partitions (0,2 vista / 0,3 Leopard). But when darwin start up ask me to choose the system and always the default partition is 0,2 Vista Ntfs.

How do I change default startup disk to 0,3 Leopard??

And, after doing that, how do I turn darwin bootloader off (in case I need it afterwards).

I have perfectly installed Vista and Leopard with acronis bootloaded. (after more than 10 attemps!)
I can´t screw my vista partition or anything else.

Can anybody help me with this??

Thanks a lot.

It is impossible to have 2 active partitions, if your partition manager says so it's weird, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record

If you want to make Leopard the main OS when boot make the Leopard partition active.

If you want to do it within Leopard check this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844

For dual Vista + Leopard: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253

In your same conditions.
Need help too...

Read post #1 and #7

I hope I am in the right place with my question. I have been reading throughout this forum but havent seen my same problem yet.
After I partitioned (FAT32) my (new) drive I rebooted to the (Kalyway 10.5.1 ) DVD and it loaded about 5 minutes , then flashed the white screen with a big grey apple for about a half second at most, then machine reboots. I have tried this more than once with the same result. I have tried it with -v although I don't get much chance to look at what the last thing loaded is due to the machine restarting .Do you have any suggestions? Any help you could offer me would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou for your time.
My computer info from EVEREST below:


--------[ Summary ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center Edition
OS Service Pack -
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name 72ABIT
User Name seven

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 531, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Motherboard Name ABIT IL9Pro
Motherboard Chipset Intel Lakeport-G i945G
System Memory 1024 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (09/17/07)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter GeForce 6200 LE
Video Adapter GeForce 6200 LE
3D Accelerator nVIDIA NV44
Monitor Dell 1701FP (Analog) [17" LCD] (06HRM157AP75)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1]

Storage:
IDE Controller Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
IDE Controller Intel® 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0
( I did try installing Matrix storage controller both in xp and Vista but I don't think my bios supports it. I re-installed both operating systems twice for that purpose before giving up) - I was hoping to be able to use AHCI mode =(

SCSI/RAID Controller Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive ST3750330AS ATA Device (698 GB, IDE)0
Disk Drive ST3750330AS ATA Device (698 GB, IDE)1
Optical Drive JLMS XJ-HD166S ATA Device (16x/48x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A ATA Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 178848 MB (164867 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 178848 MB (178729 MB free)
E: (NTFS) 178848 MB (178279 MB free)
F: (NTFS) 10001 MB (8387 MB free)
G: (NTFS) 168847 MB (164034 MB free)
---(c,d,e,f, & g are disk 0 )--------

K: (FAT32) 341.7 GB (341.6 GB free)*
H: -not formatted- (356.8 gb free)
---(k & h are disk 1)----------------


Total Size 698.6 GB (678.0 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Network:
Network Adapter Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)

Peripherals:
Printer Fax
Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - USB Universal Host Controller [A-1]
USB2 Controller Intel 82801GB ICH7 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

bump for the UPDATE (1st post).

Thank your for information

I have just one question: How is it possible to reinstall darwin-booloader?

Why i ask this?: I've recovered my files to my boot-drive with "TimeMachine". (TimeMachine Backup was stored on the second partition) After recovering the system is not booting - it hangs while loading bootsector.
What can i do?

TIA
skavenger

I triple boot with Opensuse 11, I simply pass the <<makeactive>> command when I select either Leopard or XP.

i have a triple booting situation with 2 xp and 1 macosx on the active partition...
it works with darwin boot loader...by default it boots mac if i want to boot xp i should press a key and then select another partition then i enter the xp boot.ini and select again which one xp i want...

problem is that i use xp much more then osx (i use osx only for 1 program) so i tried to change the active partition to the xp partition (apparently this is the only way to change the default boot in darwin until someone will edit the code, hopefully soon..)
then i tried again and ...darwin disappeared no more chance to boot osx....
so i modified the xp boot.ini with the chain0= system and now i have a first boot option menu from windows then i select mac osx , then enter darwin and then i have to press any key and then select AGAIN mac osx...

i wonder if there is any more clean solution with just one menu...ok not that big deal but still....

thanks
matteo

Same problem here!

Lost ability to boot without inserted DVD into Leo4All after Timemachine backup

OSX86Tools can install different BootLoaders, Darwin included.

Dear All,
i am trying to clone my MAC OS X Partition before i am updating my system as a backup, i do this using super duper or carbon copy, as i have both.

i do the cloning on my USB2 external hard drive on MBR Partition which i erased it with 0 security option before the cloning.
my problem now that when i finish the cloning and try to restart from the external drive, i got this error

Boot 0 = MBR
Boot 0 = MBR
Boot 0 = MBR

Boot 0 Error

and i do not know how to fix this error

Thanks for helping

hey does anybody know how to extend the time for darwin to boot?
I'm trying to enter the flags in, but for some reason, it goes straight to loading OS X.