Booting Leopard with Dell's MediaDirect Button

[NYC Coyote]

So I have pretty much got a nice working dual partition vista / leopard 6400 (using mbr and efi 5.2).

 

Only problem I find is that since vista is the primary active partition, I have to use the darwin bootloader, hit a button and then scroll up to vista and hit another button to boot into it.

 

Then I noticed that MediaDirect button which has just been sitting there doing nothing since I totally wiped my hard drive. Thinking to myself "Self, there must be a way to map that button to turn on the laptop and boot leopard, and use the other button to turn on the computer and boot vista"

 

After some googling I found a 2 decent explanations on how to do it with Ubuntu and Windows....but not Leopard.

 

http://linuxevangelist.blogspot.com/2007/1...m1330-with.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=413292

 

Has anyone here even attempted this?

 

For me this would be the perfect dual boot. One power button for windows, and another for mac.

[yozh]

Here are some ideas, probably not good at all.

 

If we use the media direct CD to partition the drives and then install windows and OSX, and then put the boot loader on the first media direct part and make that partion active wonder what will happen.