Installing Windows Vists Ultmiate with boot camp help please

Hello All,

I am getting a weird error when trying to launch windows vista ultimate from parallels 3.0

This is what i have done so far:

1. Rebuild mac to a single parition and fully patched.
2. Installed Boot Camp 1.4 and made a 32GB partition for Windows Vista Ultimate.
3. Installed Windows Vista Ultimate (and fully updated) and installed the drivers disc which boot camp made.

I can launch Vista without any issues if i choose it when the machine starts (with the option key).

When in OSX i launch parallels, it then asks me for my password which i enter correctly, the screen starts to boot with what i assume is the bios text for parallels.

i see standard windows window flash by with the white text and a big white bar (selection bar)

The screen then stops with the following message and does not go any further:

Booting 'Windows Vista'

acpi
Vista Loader 2.1.2

Done!
fallback 1
find --set-root /bootmgr

Error 17: File not found
Booting 'Windows NT/2000/XP'

Fallback 2
find --set-root /ntldr

Error 17: File not found
Booting 'Enter Command Line'

Boot failed! Press any key to enter command line.

The strange thing is when Parellels is not started I can see my macosx drive and bellow i have a drive called untitled (which i assume is the windows disk)

when parallels launches the untitles drive disapears. Not sure if this means anything or not.

I am a little stuck here as this is my first time with Parallels as I normally use Fusion.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Mithandra

 

Same problem, I have a seperate thread with no response.

 

Hello mithandra and mergedown,

Please send me some information:

1. Open Applications->Utilities->Terminal. In Terminal window type "diskutil list" command and run it. I'd like to get a screenshot of the result.
2. I also need the output with the .pvs file which you may find in Mac HD -> Documents -> Parallels.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

Solution and References

I've had the same problem as you... I noticed someone from parallels actually posted looking for more info from you... Well...

Here is about that problem generically under Boot Camp:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2029550

If you can get your Vista partition to boot, the following program seems to fix the bootloader and make everything work...
http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=21892

There are also a couple other threads about this...