Please help! Here's what I've done so far:

- Reformatted the HD, first partition is for OSX and the second partition is for XP.
- Installed XP on the second partition, it works.
- Installed iAtkos v7 on the first partition. The installer seemed to work fine, no issues. I tried two times: first time I selected specific drivers that I thought I would need, the second time I just did a default install.

Where I am now:

The computer boots to Chameleon v2 successfully and it gives me the option of OSX or XP. If I choose XP, it boots and everything works perfectly fine there (thankfully). If I choose OSX, it says: "Darwin loading" for a few seconds then it flashes something like "Loading Darwin osx/86" or something along those lines - I don't have enough time to read it though because as soon as that text pops, the computer reboots.

I have two questions, one easy and one hard:

Stupid question: I've read a million posts and everyone suggests things like booting OSX with -v and -x and such and such. However, I never get a chance to enter these options. As soon as I select OSX from the bootloader, the computer resets within seconds. Pressing F8 does nothing. How the hell do I get to the "F8" screen where I can boot up with these special options??? If I boot the installer from the DVD, I can enter these options but that's for the installer, not for booting the OS. The bootloader has two screens: the first where it automatically selects OSX and has a countdown and it says something like "press any key to select which one to boot" and then if i press a key, I get a screen where I can pick between OSX and XP but there seems to be no way to enter options.

Hard question: any ideas how to fix the problem? Is it even possible to get this working on a Dell Dimension 8400? It's a pretty old computer.

Thanks!