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10.6.8 mysteriously will no longer boot

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For some reason or another, Mac OS 10.6.8 will not boot as long as there are other hard disks plugged in. I have one disk with Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it, one FAT32 disk that I use for backing up files, and then the one Snow Leopard is installed on. This is not a new install, it used to be working great (for over a year), I had instant menu installed and everything was peachy, I could choose my OS without issue. However, after cleaning out my Windows 7 partition on the separate disk of some viruses, I wound up having to reinstall Windows 7. After Windows 7 was refusing to install, I wiped the whole drive, Ubuntu with it (Not a big deal, I really only seldom use Ubuntu). So it would turn out, the issue with Windows 7 not installing was that it didn't like the fact that other HDDs were plugged in. So I successfully reinstalled Windows and Ubuntu, and can boot into them just fine through Grub2. It was around this time that I discovered the issue with OSX not booting unless I unplugged the other disks (I have my OSX disk set as the primary boot disk). What it shows when I try to boot is just a forward slash at the top left \ with the _ underscore beneath it (not spinning). If set my Ubuntu/Windows disk as primary, Grub2 does not see OSX as a bootable option (it used to, although I never attempted using it to boot into OSX), and when I try to mount the OSX disk in Ubuntu, it gives me an error (I can't remember what the error is, I will post it once I check), although it can at least see it. I've tried reinstalling Chimera in multibeast, but it did nothing.

From the words of Jacki Chan's uncle; One more thing, there is some text on the chimera screen when I load the disk (you know, with the other disks unplugged). I do not remember this text being there before.
label: partition name
biosdev: 0x80
type: 0x80
flags: 0x4a
part_no: 2
part_boff: 0x64028
part_type: 0xaf
bps: 0x0
name: ----
type_name: GPT HFS+
modtime: 1360901135
width: 1024
height: 768

Or maybe I'm going crazy but I don't remember this text always being there. Sorry for the wall of text, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Bump, any help would be most excellent. Thanks guys.
 
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