winxp, vista, osx, fedora hang up: bootloaders don't play well with each other

[kazdaddy]

i've scoured the threads, and keep finding various partial solutions to my particular issue, none of which are concise. im going to be as descriptive as i can so bare with me....

 

i'm trying to quad boot xp, vista, os x, and fedora

 

Hardware

 

toshiba u305 with intel sse2 sse3

2gb ram

150gb harddrive split 4 ways all primary partitions -

40gb xp NTFS

40gb vista NTFS

40gb osx HFS+ (with journaling)

30+/-gb ext3 fedora and swap

 

 

Software

windows xp pro

windows vista ultimate

kalyway os x 10.5.1 with 10.5.2 kernels (leopard)

fedora core 9

vmware workstation 5

partition magic

acronis disk director

daemon tools

bcdedit

virtual pc

 

so far so good. plenty to make it work....

 

installed in order, xp, vista, osx, fedora

 

everything is peachy until osx, no problem with fedora either. osx just doesnt want to boot without the install DVD. b0 error. the obvious answer would be to activate the partition right? acronis and partition magic assure me it is active. i can install all of them fine, but getting osx to boot on its own has been elusive to say the least. tried bcdedit to patch it into the vista bootloader after grub>other, nothing. tried to manually copy chain0 to c:\ too. along with quite a few variations, hiding each partition, installing osx on first partition, running in virtual machines, various options in the customization menu of osx, ie kernels, mbr and guid,

 

what would be the best way to get these systems in one boot menu?

 

maybe my method is right but im messing up somewhere. maybe theres something i havent thought of.

any thoughts, links or suggestions you think would aid me would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

Kaz