New Boot Camp VM: No boot device is available

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by JohnN1, Aug 19, 2015.

  1. JohnN1

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    Trying to set up a Boot Camp VM for Windows 10 using Parallels 11 on Mac OS 10.11.

    The Use Windows from Boot Camp is available in the Parallels Wizard. I'm able to get it to create a VM but get the No boot device when it tries to run.

    Have tried looking in the KB but don't see any that are helpful.
     
  2. Maria@Parallels

    Maria@Parallels Problem solver

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    Hi, could you please generate the problem report using this KB and reply us back with the report 8-digit ID number
     
  3. JohnN1

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    Will do that next time. Resolved the issue, by reinstalling Windows. Some how the the boot loader got corrupted, and I couldn't open by booting either.

    After the reinstall creating the Boot Camp VM worked like a charm.
     
  4. Maria@Parallels

    Maria@Parallels Problem solver

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    Thanks a lot for your feedback!
     
  5. fredrik

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    I'm experiencing the same issue. I installed Windows 10 Pro and today I upgraded from Parallels for Mac version 9 to version 11.

    After having upgraded/installed version 11, I've chosen to create a VM from my Boot Camp partition. After this has been created, I see the screen which says "Upgrading My Boot Camp": "Preparing to configure your virtual machine..." - and then I get a VM window where it says there is no boot device found.

    Then I manually tried to change my hard drive (I've got an SSD drive with the OSX system on it, and a SATA drive with the Boot Camp partition on it). By mistake, I chose the SSD and started the VM. Here, I thought I've ruined both systems - but fortunately that wasn't the case and I just ended up with that same VM window with the "no boot device found" message again. Then I went back into the config to change back to the SATA drive, but it had already been done automatically. I also verified that the proper partition was selected (and it already was). Then I tried to start the VM once again and this time around it booted up Windows 10 properly without issues. When I logged into Windows 10 the "Upgrading My Boot Camp" screen showed once again and a window popup said the configuration was completed successfully. Succeeding this popup was another popup saying there was an error initializing the sound card. I was about to send in a report but the popup disappeared and coherence mode was started - and I was back at the log in screen. When logging in, Windows 10 "disappeared" and I was able to once again choose to send a problem report regarding the sound card (which I did, support id #72577336).

    After exiting coherence mode, I was able to use Windows 10 from my Boot Camp partition - but without having the sound card working.

    EDIT: After a couple of VM reboots and after having reinstalled the Parallells tools, I can now hear sounds in my Win10 boot camp. So it now seems everything is working fine.
     
    Last edited: Aug 22, 2015
  6. Maya

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    I am having the same issue as john above. Problem report: 73735257
    I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling all components to no avail.
    Thanks
     

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