Installing to auxiliary hard drive

[tcgiant]

I've got an athlon 64 3500+ on an MSI K8T Neo-2 motherboard, which comes with two sets of additional ATA controllers, a VIA chipset used only for Serial ATA and a Realtek(I'm pretty sure it's Realtek, anyone else with the motherboard, please confirm/deny) chipset for a lot of other {censored}, including a third IDE channel and a couple more serial ATA drives. I've got four physical hard drives, two of which are residing on the Realtek controller, and I decided one of those two(which was pretty much sitting unused until that point) would make a good guinea pig for a macos partition.

 

So, I used the "installing on a partition simple and accurate" guide from the wiki to part the drive up into a crapload of unused space and a 10-gigabyte type AF partition, and then dd'ed the contents of the tiger-x86-flat.img file into that partition, which was, like, \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume7\ or something. I skipped the first 63 bytes, and all that, set the block size to 512, and ran it as listed in the guide.

 

Also, I probably should mention that my C: drive isn't my windows system drive. Due to a very ugly mess of an attempted install of Gentoo Linux, I had an extra partition on my primary master hdd, which became E:(my zip drive is D, for reasons entirely beyond my comprehension) drive, which is where the windows folder is located. C:, however, has boot.ini and counts as the boot drive, so I put chain0 there.

 

I got a "chain loading error" when I booted, and didn't really have time to try out my ideas on the matter(one of which was to swap out the drive from one IDE channel to the other and see if that helped), but I was wondering what I was doing wrong. Was it because I'm using a tertiary IDE channel that's mounted on an auxiliary controller? Is it just because Jesus hates me because I touch myself at night? I mean, in the BIOS itself, I can boot to the hdd that it's on, but it still doesn't work, saying that the operating system is missing. What'd I miss here?

 

Any help at all would be appreciated. Seriously. I'm dying here.