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booting darwin

Hi,

I have installed Darwin x86 (version 602) on my computer, and I cannot boot
it... The installation seems to be finished successfully, and it's impossible
to boot the OS.

Here are more details about what I did:
1. I created two partitions (with partition magic):
/dev/hdb2 == /dev/disk1s2 == 10 MiB
/dev/hdb3 == /dev/disk1s3 == 3 GiB
I changed the identifier of these partitions with fdisk under Linux (t to
change the ID, then w to write MBR)

Then I run the installation from the bootable CD-Rom. I select the option 2,
and told the installer to use my two exising partitions. All packages seems to
be well installed.
I have an error at the end (installer told stdin was not in gzip format, and
tar failed after gzip too). But it told the installation was completed.

I have two hard disks:
/dev/hda
- WinXP on /dev/hda1
- Linux on the extended partition*
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdb1 = extended partition (contains hdb5 which is reiserfs)
/dev/hdb2 = boot for darwin (primary partition)
/dev/hdb3 = root for darwin (primary partition)

My computer boots from /dev/hda. Grub is installed on this disk. WinXP and
Linux work well.
I added an entry for darwin, in grub.conf:

title Darwin
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

When I select this OS at the grub boot, I have something like this:
> ........
Error

When I try to tell other partitions numbers to grub.conf, it does not work.

I read the installation notes, but it just tells "install, and it will work".
Sorry, but I need more details to make darwin work. I think the documentation
should give more details about the startup, and how to configure grub, and
LILO for Linux users.

Another question:
Can darwin be installed inside an extended partition (like /dev/hda5) ? Linux
can, Windows can't.

Thanks advance
Frangois
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