Bootcamp / stuck in "boot from primary master"

Hi

Hope someone can shed some light on this, have searched the forums for almost 2 days now.... =)

Have a new Mac Pro with 2x quad xeon and 6GB of ram, and a bit new to running OSX as i will try to do as my primary OS.

However i still need windows for work, and i will need to be able to boot into it when i need full performance, so therefor i installed the new and shiny windows 7 ( rtm, technet ) on a separate hdd from my primary.

So setup is:
OSX = Bay 1 ( WD 640GB )
Win7= Bay 2 ( Intel SSD )
Storage = Bay 3
Storage = Bay 4


The Bootcamp installation is working well, i can boot into windows without a hitch, the problems comes when i try to virtualize that partition in Parallels Desktop.

It detects the HDD as being a boot camp partition, and it starts to configure the machine, and comes to the second stage where it tells me i have to configure the rest manually, the VM starts and gets stuck in boot with "Trying to boot from Primary Master IDE".

Any ideas?

Regards / M

 

Hello,

Try to recreate the virtual machine and see if that works or not.

If that does not work the run the followinng command in your terminal "diskutil list" without quotes and it will give you the name of your bootcamp parition (it will be something like disk3, disk2, etc)

Now in your virtual machine file (.pvm file) look for a file called config.pvs and open the same in text edit, under the HDD section it should have the same name of your bootcamp partition disk( ex: disk3 or disk2)

 

Dump Log

Hi,

should it point to the partition of the bootcamp itself or the data where windows resides?

this are the config file & diskutil list, does this look correct ?

Regards / M



<Hdd>
<Index>0</Index>
<Enabled>1</Enabled>
<Connected>1</Connected>
<EmulatedType>3</EmulatedType>
<SystemName>INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GC.hdd</SystemName>
<UserFriendlyName>INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GC</UserFriendlyName>
<Remote>0</Remote>
<InterfaceType>0</InterfaceType>
<StackIndex>0</StackIndex>
<DiskType>1</DiskType>
<Size>76319</Size>
<SizeOnDisk>0</SizeOnDisk>
<Passthrough>0</Passthrough>
<Splitted>0</Splitted>
<DiskVersion>2</DiskVersion>
<Partition>
<SystemName>/dev/disk0s2</SystemName>
</Partition>
</Hdd>


/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *74.5 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data 74.3 Gi disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk1
1: Windows_NTFS Storage 1 931.5 Gi disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk2
1: Windows_NTFS Storage 3 931.5 Gi disk2s1
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *596.2 Gi disk3
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 595.9 Gi disk3s2
/dev/disk4
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *14.6 Mi disk4
1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS Zipeg 14.5 Mi disk4s2

 

Hello,

Try reinstalling Parallels as instructed in the article below and then create a new virtual machine with the bootcamp hard disk.
http://kb.parallels.com/en/5714

 

Hi

Did the reinstall as per instructions, however no results, still same problem..

Regards / M

 

Same problems with me on 2 macs (air+MbP15) with SSD: parallels launch of XP - bootcamp hangs at the XP splash screen level with a message "SCSI not installed". I tried several things -including editing the config.pvs but failed.

 

I am getting the same problem. It appears that parallels randomly decides to change the drive it is using. I am not sure why this happens, but I can go back to the configure and reselect the right boot camp partition (it only shows one option, so I am not sure why parallels changes this).

Anyhow, the problem can be resolved by reselecting the drive when this happens, but that is most annoying. It appears to happen only after I launch a non-boot camp VM.