Dual boot only with Tiger DVD

[ghw9132]

After a fair amount of effort (7 installs of x & xp) the only way i can dual boot is by having XP partition as boot and using the DVD to boot to OSX. currently the chain0/boot.ini method does nothing, though last install it gave a lengthy reason as to why it couldn't boot, and setting osx as the active partition gives an error saying it cannot find and OS (if i remember correctly)

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Edit: Also, is this normal? (see attached)

 

PROBLEM RESOLVED:

 

I edited the com.apple.Boot.plist to disable quiet boot and set timeout. Still not sure why the windows bootloader wouldn't work, i would select tiger, and it would just return to the menu. Also, don't know why the memory usage is so high but judging from other posts this seems to be normal.

[Merlwiz79]

After a fair amount of effort (7 installs of x & xp) the only way i can dual boot is by having XP partition as boot and using the DVD to boot to OSX. currently the chain0/boot.ini method does nothing, though last install it gave a lengthy reason as to why it couldn't boot, and setting osx as the active partition gives an error saying it cannot find and OS (if i remember correctly)

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Edit: Also, is this normal? (see attached)

 

PROBLEM RESOLVED:

 

I edited the com.apple.Boot.plist to disable quiet boot and set timeout. Still not sure why the windows bootloader wouldn't work, i would select tiger, and it would just return to the menu. Also, don't know why the memory usage is so high but judging from other posts this seems to be normal.

 

Make sure chain0 is on the same Hard Drive as Boot.ini my F: partition is xp but my Boot.ini is on C: partition and if it won't copy to that drive make a folder I caled Mine Boot and put chain0 in there my Boot.ini looks like

[boot loader]

timeout=3

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

C:\boot\chain0="Mac OS X"

[ghw9132]

Make sure chain0 is on the same Hard Drive as Boot.ini my F: partition is xp but my Boot.ini is on C: partition and if it won't copy to that drive make a folder I caled Mine Boot and put chain0 in there my Boot.ini looks like

[boot loader]

timeout=3

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

C:\boot\chain0="Mac OS X"

My chain0 file was in the root directory (c:\chain0), it would give be a boot menu, but when i selected macos, the screen would go black, then return to the menu. Darwin bootloader works fine for me since i prefer booting to osx as default.