Hey Folks,I got a brand-spanking new 233GB hard drive [1] for my laptop, partitioned into two pieces:
178GB for my main stuff w/ Leopard as the OS55GB w/ Tiger as the OS (for testing stuff my wife might use on her laptop).
Both partitions were populated by using the new version of Carbon Copy Cloner [2] to move files from other external drives which start up just fine under the proper operating system. [3]
For some reason, even if I pick the Tiger partition as the startup drive, the computer still starts up Leopard. It starts, boings, the grey screen comes up, goes to black immediately (before the apple logo shows) and then comes up again, as though it runs into troubles trying to start Tiger. Leopard then starts up.
If I start up with the option key held down, the only choice for an operating system is Leopard.
In the past, there used to be limitations as to how far into the disk a startup partition could be placed. Though I can't find any references any more, I'm wondering if this could be the problem. In fact, when googling, I couldn't find anything which would help, though my googling skills are not the best.
Any ideas? Bill[1] A Western Digital '250GB' disk. It arrived unformatted; I formatted using the disk utility from Leopard.
[2] I used this instead of SuperDuper!, because it gives more flexibility in what gets copied. I copied everything from an external disk except some extra folders which held backup information. When things didn't quite work, I recopied the System folder to no avail.
[3] Each external drive has a single partition.
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