com.apple.Boot.plist error on Leopard

[ninjasays]

Greetings,

I have ToS Leopard 10.5.1 installed along with XP and Ubuntu. I'm booting via grub with chain0 method.

 

hd set up is

hd1 ide 120 gig XP on 1st partion, followed by ubuntu

hd2 sata 250 gig with OSX on first partition and second partition is used for time machine

hd3 sata 320 that is just used for storage

 

Everything has been working great until recently. When I select the OS X option in grub I get the following error:

System config file '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found

 

if I hit f8 I can select the proper hard drive and the os will boot, but I would rather not have to do that every time.

 

The only thing that I have changed is the second parition on the OSX drive has been reformatted for time machine use.

 

Here is the text from com.apple.Boot.plist:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http:apple.com/DTDs$

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Boot Device</key>

<string>/PCI0@0/IDE1@1F,2/CHN0@0/@0:1</string>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

Is there any way to fix this?

 

Thank you in advance!

[ipod touch guy]

When I had this happen, I selected the appropriate drive one time and it worked from there on out.

[ninjasays]

I've started multiple times, same result. Still have to hit f8 to load. Could my chain0 be screwed up?

[ninjasays]

solved:

Somehow the second partition on my osx drive was set to boot. I unflagged that partition and flagged the osx partition as boot with gparted. Silly noob am I.