Confused about partitions

[jimminy]

The thing I'm confused about is partitioning. I have an XP Dell Dimension E521 that I can basically install Leopard on using Leo4All, but I can't get it to boot up using the chain0 method. It just goes back and seems to try to start Xp, and I assume this is because of the way the patitioning is set up and I'm too daft to understand it.

 

I've created a partition for leopard, left it unformatted, the OSX installation formats it (I think) and installs the OS's files and goes through the setup. Everything seems fine because I get the Mac GUI during the install. I've got things set up in XP's boot.ini file to dual boot using the Chain0 file, but on restart it can't seem to get to OSX.

 

I think the partition I have OSX on is a logical or extended, but I can't seems to figure out how to make this partition primary. Currently there are 2 primary partitions (C: & E:), a logical partition (D:), and a 20 GB free space created for OSX.

 

Is this why I can't get OSX to boot, and if so, how can I make that partition primary when windows disk management doesn't give me the option? Also, I need to know if anything I do to make it primary will cause me to loose anything from the other partitions or my ability to boot to XP.

 

Thanks.

[pritthish]

hmm, you could just set the OSX partition to be the bootable partition using the gparted live cd and use darwin to select xp

 

downside, if your OSX install gets messed up, you'll have to go into gparted and flag the XP partition as boot

 

as to how you can find out if the partition is a primary, logical or extended, (drum roll) gparted live cd again! it will show you what type each partition is