canadrian Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I'm having trouble using my XP partition in Parallels build 5582. It sees the XP partition and creates a "My Boot Camp" virtual machine, but when I start the virtual machine it halts very on at "Boot from hard drive...". Do you think this has something to do with BIOS (vs. EFI), MBR disk, NTFS formatting, or something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenameisgabe Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I had quite a few issues getting parallels to work with bootcamp. you should try vmware, it worked flawlessly that way. It would crash the system sometimes, but that could very well be something else, it seems I'm having stability issues. -Gabe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadrian Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 I tried VMware Fusion 1.1 as well, and it won't boot the Windows partition either. Could you provide a few more details about your setup for comparison purposes? Here are my relevant details: Intel single-core CPU MBR HDD Partition 1: Windows XP on NTFS Partition 2: Leaopard 10.5.1 (Kalyway) on HFS+ (Journaled) MBR bootloader built into Kalyway install disc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenameisgabe Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 My setup: C2D 2.4ghz 2 SATA HD's, one in GUID and the other on MBR(XP Pro) Kalyway 10.5.1 p5b-vm mobo 4gb ram 8800gts I had my leopard HD formatted as MBR before and it worked then as well. It doesn't play nice with XP x64 cause its not supported but XP Pro worked fine on vmware. What did VMware say when you tried to boot the other partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggerc Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Just to say that the problem is most like hackintos based, because Parallels on the boot camp partition works perfectly on my MBP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Did you guys see the topic in the Genius bar about it? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;hl=parallels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergosteur Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I followed the tutorial from the genius bar, but I can't get parallels to boot my XP partition. As soon as parallels tries to boot from the hard drive, it crashes and asks me to submit a bug report. The Windows XP recovery console boots fine from the CD and detects my XP installation. My setup is as follows: SATA1: 250GB, 3 partitions. 116GB NTFS Windows XP, 113GB EXT3 Ubuntu, 2.5GB Linux Swap. SATA2: 160GB, 1 partition. 149GB HFS+ Kalyway 10.5.1. SATA3: 500GB, 1 partition. 465GB NTFS DATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergosteur Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 ok solved my problem. apparently partitioning the windows boot drive with Disk Utility messes up the MBR/boot sector. I reinitialized the partition table with linux, partitioned with partitionmagic and everything works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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