Okay specifics: I just purchased a Macbook pro, My OS and Parallels versions are the most recent and up to date versions and builds, I have 2GB Ram. I have not used boot camp before and do not have parallels tools installed yet. I have no problem installing parallels desktop and initializing it. I follow the express setup pages until it tells me to install the disc, I insert my fresh out of the box copy of Windows XP Professional (Which includes service pack 2) and click finish...the VM begins and the disc winds up. DOS screen appears and at the bottom it informs me it is loading miscellanious drivers. This continues for about three minutes, then it says "Preparing to start Windows" a few seconds later the disc winds down and the BSOD appears for half a second with dialogue displayed, then immediately shuts down the VM and sends me back to the Parallels menu saying he VM has stopped, if I try to play the VM again, it freezes on the black screen with words "Loading from hard drive _" frozen on screen...nothing happens. I have easily spent over ten hours now contacting other a Mac users in the area and getting suggestions. I have uninstalled/reinstalled parallels twice, did not help. I managed to use screen capture to get a pic of the BSOD and what it says...it's attached. Please, any help would be great! I'm new to macs, 14 years on PCs so go easy on me. Thanks, Trevor
Not dice John, Thanks for the reply. I tried making an ISO image, but when I start the install process it brings up an alert box saying that there is no OS setup on the VM. The black screen displays the text: Boot from HD....failed Boot from CD....failed Boot from floppy....failed What do I do now?
Please try create ISO as described bellow: 1. Insert CD/DVD source 2. Fire up a Terminal, you can then determine the device that is you CD/DVD drive using the following command: $ drutil status Vendor Product Rev MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E GAND Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1 Cur Write: 8x DVD Sessions: 1 Max Write: 8x DVD Tracks: 1 Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB Space Used: 364:08:27 blocks: 1638627 / 3.36GB / 3.13GiB Writability: Book Type: DVD-ROM 3. Umount the disk with the following command: $ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 Disk /dev/disk1 unmounted 4. Create the ISO file with the dd utility (may take some time): $ dd if=/dev/disk1 of=file.iso bs=2048 5. Test the ISO image by mounting the new file (or open with Finder): $ hdid file.iso Also make sure that iso image is selected as CD-DVD-rom source in configuration editor
