nevermind1331 Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 so i install parallels, works great, love it. eventually a reboot and alas, i cant boot into mac. so i started up with the install dvd and ran disk utility, tons of disk problems. at first it doesnt fix them. then i run it again and it says all is well. now when i try to boot to mac i see the apple logo and the circle with slash through it repeating. Anyone know why it wont boot? Clearly parallels corrupted my disk, i think it had to do with xp autoupdates. anyway, i can still boot into my bootcamped windows. Any ideas. 17' imac intel Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Parallels uninstalled itself from my computer. Taking with it my Windows Server 2003 that was on it. This beta isn't very stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 yea, i see that, but my question is less about parallels now that the disk is no longer corrupted. maybe i should give refit a shot and see if itll boot it. strage error though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 some more info, safe mode doesnt work, gives me the same flashing of the apple sign then the flashing. both verbose and single user mode load the kernel, then give the error, error loading drivers. also, maccdrive in windows can no longer see the partition, where it could before. any ideas? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 reinstall OSx86. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 thats fine, but will i have to reinstall windows too? or will it boot regardless of osx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Weird, Parallels has been nothing but stable and great for me. Mind you I have an "officially" supported system with Intel VT technology, etc. The only thing I could really wish for right now is fullscreen and sound support, but that should be arriving soon, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 i have a new 17' imac, its got the supprt needed. im not the only one with this problem either, others on the parallels forum have it too. ill hazard a guess it has to do with the way it expands the disk. so back your stuff up, just as a caution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Thanks for the heads up. Using bootcamp and parallells, will have to make sure I'm carefully backing up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Had the same problem on my brand new macbook pro this morning. Running parallels -- all of the sudden I got a kernal panic, and when I rebooted, the system was misbehaving (couldn't see folderd, couldn't save anything). Tried to reboot again two or three times, and it just hung on the grey screen. Hmm. Booted off the install DVD, ran disk utility. Repair disk --> failed. Found lots and lots of errors. Repaired again --> failed. More errors. On the third repair, it succeeded, then verified okay. Repaired permissions, rebooted, now I'm back up and running but worried about the integrity of the system. I'm duplicating my drive to a USB disk at the moment so I have a good backup. Debating whether to reinstall, then migrate my settings again. The lesson -- always keep a good backup. When I was using windows I kept all of my "stuff" on the remote machine and used offline files to synchonize the two, do I've always had a good and current backup on my other system. Is there a way to do the same on OSX? I'd like to keep a synchronized version of all my stuff on a network drive shared off a windows box. Otherwise, will keep backing up to the USB disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyX Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Yup, I had the same problem today. After about three or so days or working Dual boot with XP and XP running via Paralles in Tiger.. Mac OS would no longer boot. Disk First aid showed lots of errors I could not fix. XP still worked fine if I booted to it. Had to reload today from reinstall cds.. Going to image my OS X partion before messing with the new beta 3. Tricky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Fever Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Did you tell Parallels to use an existing "physical" hard disk ? Or did you create a "virtual" drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I think I've figured out how to work around this until they fix it. I created a writable DMG in disk utility, then put my parallels disk inside the DMG. No problems since then, and great performance in XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 thats a good idea. so far beta 3 hasnt had a problem yet. im going to move it to another disk soon, so hopefully only that partition becomes corrupted. or i was, until i heard about your disk image idea... hmmm.....which to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slylock Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I thought I read in a post that disk images from other systems like Virtual PC or Q could be used with parallels, but now I can't find the post. Anyone know about compatibility of disk images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 i believe he means a dmg file. osx can write to these types of images, so its not an issue to create your disk inside of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slylock Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I was able to answer my own question about compatible disk images, here: http://forum.parallels.com/showpost.php?p=4124&postcount=11 Turns out you can use "raw" disk images from Qemu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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