gavspav Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I'm running iDeneb 10.5.8 on an Asus p5H Deluxe. I just installed XP Pro on a second sata hard drive which was recognised by Chameleon and allowed me to boot into Leopard or XP. Success! I then tried installing Parallels Desktop 4 and pointed it towards a Bootcamp partition (despite not having one). This seemed to work and my XP installation works fine via Parallels. Success #2 However if I try to boot XP via Chameleon it doesn't work any more. I just get a flashing cursor in the top left of the screen. 2 out of 3 isn't bad and I'm not complaining, especially as I barely know what I'm doing. Wondering what I've done though and if anyone can help from the info I've given. Plus if anyone wants to know what I did to get Parallels working I'll try to talk them through it. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcode51 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Plus if anyone wants to know what I did to get Parallels working I'll try to talk them through it. Yeah, could u please explain what you did, since I'm just running in to a brick wall here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1300598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavspav Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 Yeah, could u please explain what you did, since I'm just running in to a brick wall here. I installed XP onto a separate hard drive. Checked that it worked. Booted into Leopard. Installed Parallels. Went through the first time install procedure. Here's where I find it hard to remember err.....???? I followed the instructions to set up a new VM Chose XP, bootcamp, custom And then it worked off the bat. If you remind me what the options are, I'll let you know which I selected. And how about my Dual Boot problem Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1300643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 i cant get any virtual machines to install windows on my snow hackintosh Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1300810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony74 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I installed XP onto a separate hard drive. Checked that it worked.Booted into Leopard. Installed Parallels. Went through the first time install procedure. Here's where I find it hard to remember err.....???? I followed the instructions to set up a new VM Chose XP, bootcamp, custom And then it worked off the bat. If you remind me what the options are, I'll let you know which I selected. And how about my Dual Boot problem I'm curious about how you got parallels to work setting up a VM with a boot camp partition when you dont have one. Your XP install was a stand alone install correct? I have been trying to do this for a while now with no success. it starts to setup with the steps 1 of 4, and nothing ever happens, my HD icon on desktop, mounts and unmounts, but never finishes setup. i have configuration like yours separate HD. as for your dual boot, perhaps someting during setup of parallels messed it up. can u reinstall Chameleon? i personally use the chain0 file, with the OSX line added to boot.ini, works great. Check your boot.ini file. i know when i tried to get parallels to work, i gave up and booted into windows stand alone, and at the boot screen i had an extra option of default Windows, and the boot.ini file had been modified. it changed the location of disk0s1 something like that i forget exactly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1300840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavspav Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 I'm curious about how you got parallels to work setting up a VM with a boot camp partition when you dont have one. Your XP install was a stand alone install correct? Yes I was surprised it worked too. Its hard to recall exactly what I did but based on the new virtual machine assistant I: -skipped the os detection -entered type and version (Windows, Windows XP) -chose custom -allocated system resources 50/50 -chose Boot Camp Partition I cant remember if there were any steps after that but I'm scared to press continue in case it creates a new VM and messes it all up! If there is another step let me know and I;ll tell you what I put. After completion it all just worked straight away. Think you are right about the boot.ini file. I read somewhere I should have two profiles - one for parallels and one for Bootcamp. From within parallels boot.ini is set to Disk 0 partition 1 but I think it needs to be Disk 1 partition 1 for my dual boot set up. Might wait a while before messing with that though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1300901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavspav Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Still can't sort this out - when I try to boot XP natively I just get a blinking cursor. I've tried making the partition active and fixmbr but neither had any effect. Edited the boot.ini file and added a profile but I don't even get to the OS options screen. XP still boots via parallels though. So surely there must be a way to boot native. Anyone know how to copy the Parallels virtual mbr to the physical disk so I can boot from that? Ta Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1303328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavspav Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 Finally sorted this out - I disconnected the first drive (which had osx on) and installed another version of windows on a separate partition of the second drive. I did this thinking it might sort out the mbr but actually I think it might have been unnecessary and actually it was a case of windows not booting unless its the first drive in the bios (though I'm sure I tried that). Anyway this step meant I could boot Windows but when I reconnected the first drive I was back to square one. That was when I realised if I made the Windows drive the first one in the Bios then it would boot. Success but still a bit clumsy so I installed "boot think" on the windows drive. Now when I turn on the BootMachine I get the choice of Windows or Bootthink. If I choose Bootthink I can then choose OSX. Pretty close to being sorted! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192462-parallels-4-hackintosh-success-but-now-cant-boot-xp-standalone/#findComment-1305065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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