Yet another bootloader problem!

[Zakuro]

Please keep in mind I'm little more than a novice when it comes to bootloaders, and as always; sorry if this is the most bad-assed repost of all time and such.

This is one of very few things I've not been able to resolve by some searching/lurking;

 

 

Setup:

XP installed on first SATA master. (installed first)

ToH AMD 10.5.1 on IDE Master.

This (unless I'm mistaken) results in;

 

Problem description:

Darwin's takes it upon it's shoulders to be the one in charge. Fine by me. Except that it doesn't show my XP disk. I was was thinking it might be SATA related (like SATA drivers not being loaded at that point or what-have-you), but then, all my SATAs are recognized and mounted fine inside booted Leo(?).

Solutions/possible fixes tested as of yet:

Here I figured I'd just use the boot.ini to do the job, so I chain0'd it and added the entry to boot.ini. Problem is that in order to get past the Darwin loader I have to use my GRUB disk and chose to boot XP from a 2nd hdd. It then takes me to the bootloader. Can't have that. So I tried Acronis; works, but I still have to GRUB past Darwin; no go.

Lastly I've just tried booting the XP cd and running fixmbr on my XP install; reported abnormalities in MBR of course, and wrote a new one. Only it doesn't work. still getting the Darwin bootloader. Anyone got any input?

 

Hardware-wise no other problems.

 

/Zakuro

 

 

[EDIT:]

Solved!

I remembered randomly that my mobo (A8N-e) is one of those suppoting the boot device selection (that is, not just "HDDs first", but a specific HDD first.) by pressing a F# key when it says to press delete for BIOS setup :>

 

[EDIT2:]

My mistake. That selection only chose boot device for that single session, so I'm back to square one I guess :/

ANyone feelin' smart? ;D

[socal swimmer]

darwin will only report the partitions on one hard drive. Just use your BIOS boot selector to choose which HD you boot from!

 

Set one as default, and then use that if you need the other.

[Zakuro]

darwin will only report the partitions on one hard drive. Just use your BIOS boot selector to choose which HD you boot from!

 

Set one as default, and then use that if you need the other.

 

 

Ah, bummer. >_<

Well, like I said; it only choses for that single session, without providing an option (as far as I can tell) for selecting the default drive. As long as I want to boot from my master IDE (Leo) that's ok, but as I boot XP for gaming, I'd like to not have to have to load the mobo boot select every time.