darwin seems to have never strolled in....

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hi all!

 

i'm encountering some bizarre booting problems while installing osx 10.4.6 (hotiso) to my second machine, which is amd64 2800+, msi k8m neo-v, 512mb.

 

i've installed osx86 twice previously (and gotten most of it working, too), so i'm (slightly) familiar with some intricacies and problems that are encountered during the process. the package i'm using (osx86 10.4.6, hotiso) is operational on one of my machines (sempron 2500, msi k8mm-v, 512mb etc)

 

here's what's happening. via acronis, i had created a 6gb partition of AF type (which acronis calls shagOS swap) and set it as active. later, booting from the hotiso dvd, install went smoothly, utilizing sse2+other patches and all. additionally, i'd copied chain0 (from the nedprod.com tutorial that's listed at wiki.osx86project.org) into c:\ and suitably edited c:\boot.ini

 

now, unfortunately, while the xp bootloader does list the option of booting to osx, selecting that option displays "chain booting error."

 

however, when i set the hfs+ partition as active (via diskpart, acronis or the fdisk-from-the-install-dvd), the system starts, and a message declaring a missing operating system comes up. this probably means darwin itself is missing :-(

 

any clues as to what's happening? and how to fix it? can only darwin be reinstalled? btw, i can peek into the hfs+ volume using macdrive.

 

thanks,

-tsa

 

p.s. as advised by the nedprod tute, the hfs+ partition is primary, and has only the c:\ (containing xp) before it.