Multiboot Problem

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I got 10.4.3 installed and now want to setup multiboot.

 

I installed 10.4.3 to a secondary IDE hard drive (which I had setup as the master for install), in the first primary partition of the drive (type 0xAF). I used the disk utility to format my drive when installing. When installing 10.4.3 I was using this secondary hard drive as the primary drive (disconnected my primary drive to make sure it didn't get hosed when installing... )

 

Now that I have verified that 10.4.3 installed correctly, I want to re-connect my primary IDE drive along with the secondary IDE drive that 10.4.3 is installed on. I'm already doing a multiboot on my primary drive between a few operating systems... I use XOSL as my boot manager, booting windows OS'es directly, and re-directing to a grub installation in the boot sector of any linux partitions. (grub in turn boots linux).

 

What I would like to do is use XOSL to boot 10.4.3, but when I configured XOSL to boot from the 10.4.3 partition, I recieved a "HFS+ Partition Error". Configuring XOSL to boot from the MBR of the secondary disk results in a "b0" error.

 

The 10.4.3 partition is active and primary, of type 0xAF, and boots fine when the secondary drive is setup as the master.

 

I can boot 10.4.3 in the desired configuration (10.4.3 on the secondary IDE drive) by booting to a grub prompt using a grub boot disk and typing:

root (hd1,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1

boot

 

This will boot 10.4.3...

 

With that in mind I decided I would have to adopt the same boot strategy for 10.4.3 as I used for linux (XOSL > GRUB > OS)

 

Since I am confused about how Darwin /x86 bootloader works I am unsure of the best way to set this up... can I install grub to the MBR of the secondary disc? Can I install grub to the boot sector of the 10.4.3 partition? Should I install grub to the boot sector of a partition of its own?

 

I don't want to break darwin /X86, but I want to get XOSL to point to an instance of GRUB so I can configure the menu.lst file with the above mentioned code so I can boot 10.4.3.

 

Thanks for the help!