Unable to boot OS X on second hard drive - please please help!

[rico]

First of all, thank you kindly in advance for any help. All of the help and knowledge on this board is incredibly appreciated.

 

The problem - I installed OS X 10.4.8 onto my newly bought hard drive and am unable to boot into it. (I'm using JaS.10.4.8.Intel.SSE3.Only.Install.DVD.iso).

 

I have grub installed on sda.

 

I'm running it on a Dell 9150 + Pentium D (SSE3) and had absolutely no problems installing OS X.

 

I have OS X installed on sdb1 or (hd1,0):

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
	   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
	   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

		  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
	   /dev/sda1   *		   1	   35598   285940903+   7  HPFS/NTFS
	   /dev/sda2		   35599	   38786	25607610	5  Extended
	   /dev/sda3		   38787	   38913	 1020127+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
	   /dev/sda5		   35599	   37255	13309821   83  Linux
	   /dev/sda6		   37256	   38110	 6867756   83  Linux
	   /dev/sda7		   38111	   38786	 5429938+  83  Linux

	   Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
	   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
	   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

		  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
	   /dev/sdb1   *		   1		6528	52436128+  af  Unknown

	   Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
	   255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
	   Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

		  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
	   /dev/sdc1   *		   1	   15979   128351286	7  HPFS/NTFS

My menu.lst file from OpenSUSE 10.2:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Apr  1 22:04:47 MDT 2007
		 default 1
		 timeout 8
		 gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message

		 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
		 title openSUSE 10.2
			 root (hd0,4)
			 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts
			 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

		 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
		 title Windows
			 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
			 chainloader (hd0,0)+1

		 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
		 title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
			 root (hd0,4)
			 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
			 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

		 title OSX 10.4.8
			 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
			 makeactive
			 chainloader (hd1,0)+1

 

When I attempt to boos "OSX 10.4.8" I get the following error: HFS+ partition error

When I change "rootnoverify (hd0,0)" to "root (hd1,0)" I get the following error: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xaf

 

I installed the chain0 file from the Darwin download as per instructions. I copied the entire i386 directory into /boot/grub.

 

I should say that I wan't able to 'browse file' when adding chain0 as a device, so I'm not sure the system is finding it, even though it is in /boot/grub/i386.

 

I searched and tried what seems like countless suggestions to no avail. Any help is MUCH appreciated!!! I am very excited to try this out as I want to buy a MacBook Pro when Leopard comes out. Thank you so much.

 

Rico.

[rico]

I re-installed OS X on the new disk erasing the entire disk in Disk Utility and am still unable to boot.

 

Help! If anyone can shed some light on this, it'd be greatly appreciated.

[rico]

Anyone? Any ideas?

[Lactobacillus P]

Nope, I've only had success in booting from a first or second active primary partition on the 1st harddrive in the system.

 

On a real mac it really doesn't matter what drive you choose to install OSX on.