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Dual boot, seperate HDDs blinking cursor on Windows XP boot

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I've successfully installed ML and XP on different HDDs. ML is on SATA0 and XP is on SATA1. The bios is configured to boot on the HD that ML is on. I can get to chimera just fine and boot ML just fine, but when I try to select XP and boot that, it gives me a blinking cursor. It also shows a blue windows symbol and says Windows NTFS. Am I missing something? Most searching I have found gives information for iboot, but it says thats for SL only. Where do I go from here? Thanks!
 
Okay, I got it working for the most part. I did a dual partition on one hard drive. NTFS (after xp install) and journaled. I installed Chimera in the journaled portion so I could get the bootloader. I can boot into ML just fine. If I click on windows, it comes up with "can't find mach_kernel". Goes back to the bootloader and then I click on XP again and it boots! What is that "can't find mach_kernel" all about?
 
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