Booting Leopard when its on a second volume - how to?

[toddburch]

I installed a new (second) harddrive and Leopard this afternoon on my Mac Pro. I still have Tiger 10.4.11 on my "MACINTOSH HD". I partitioned and labeled my new drive "Leopard" (the first partition). The install seemed to go fine to the Leopard volume (it took long, but it worked). Once installed, I did the Software Update thing, and lots more updates were done. It rebooted once or twice to Leopard during the process. I also installed the developer tools.

When it rebooted after the Software Update, Tiger came up. I went into System Preferences and picked the StartUp disk to be my Leopard volume. I clicked restart, and Tiger came up. I did this twice, and both times Tiger has come up.

How do I set my default boot volume?

 

[sameon]

try holding the option/alt key when restarting the mac and choose the leopard partition.

 

[toddburch]

I had tried that earlier, and it didn't work - I obviously didn't hold it down long enough.

This time, however, I held it until I got the prompt to boot from my MAC HD or Leopard. WOO-HOO! Forward progress. I double-clicked my Leopard volume, and it started the boot process.

HOWEVER, it took a very long time to boot, and when it did finally come up, it was Tiger again.

Something must be screwed up with that volume. How to test???

 

[toddburch]

Here's my Disk Utility log, FWIW.

 

[toddburch]

OK, this is psycho. I just tried it again, holding the option key, clicking my Leopard volume, and then I continued to hold the option key, and Leopard booted this time. I'll continue to experiment and see what happens.

Baffled.