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This might be really easy, but for the past few days I could not find a clear answer, sorry if it is prev discussed.

 

All OS's will be installed on seperate hard drives.

 

Leopard WILL BE on partition 1 of 2 (both HFS+, other partition just data).

 

I currently just use the BIOS to switch between Vista and Tiger drives (working).

 

Questions:

 

1. Is the "Startup Disk" used? Meaning, once I install Leopard, do I use it to switch between the two OSx86's, like on a regular Mac?

 

2. Once I install Leopard successfully. Then I set Vista as the BIOS boot drive. Can I use EasyBCD to make 2 additional entries to the Vista Bootloader for Tiger and Leopard?

 

3. Would the Darwin Bootloader on one of the OSx86 drives work better by adding Vista? If so, how do you edit the Darwin Bootloader for such a case?

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated?

2) No. You can add multiple entries, but they'll both launch the same Darwin bootloader.

You just keep that one entry, and it should be automatically updated to contain both Leopard and Tiger.

So you pick "Mac OS" in the Vista bootloader/EasyBCD menu, then you get a _second_ boot menu where you would choose the one you want.

 

3) I don't think you can. But no, it wouldn't work any "better" or worse :P

OK,

 

I installed Leopard on a 3rd HD (Partition 1 of 2).

 

Three drives:

1. Vista

2. Tiger

3.1 Leopard

3.2 Data

 

When I set Tiger to boot in the BIOS, the Darwin Bootloader for Tiger only sees Tiger as an option.

 

Similarly, Leopard only sees Leopard or Data as an option.

 

Is the Darwin Bootloader "updated" when I add a MacOSX entry in EasyBCD?

 

Since you are literaly the "Computer Guru", I thought there was an option in EasyBCD to pick a diskXsY for the MacOS entry?

 

If not, I have to fix one or both Darwin Bootlaoder/s to see the other OSx86's, still not really clear on that. Is this correct:

 

Edit:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>rd=diskXsY</string>

 

And with this you'll have the timer:

 

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>8</string>

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