Cannot boot from Boot Camp partition on a triple boot Mac

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by rpcameron, Jan 26, 2008.

  1. rpcameron

    rpcameron Bit poster

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    Im trying to set up a Boot Campbased Vista VM in Parallels 3.0 (build 5160). My system is a MacBook Pro that natively triple boots OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu 7.10.

    When I try to boot the VM, I get the following error message:
    The problem with this is that there is no section in the Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide titled Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation.

    I know there are qualifiers I can add to the [IDE Devices] section of the .pvs file where it presently says Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp, but I dont know what they are. My harddrive layout is as follows (sorry, the columns get lost in the formatting and whitespace parsing):
    Slice 2 (disk0#2; disk0s2) is my HFS+ OS X partition, slice 3 (disk0#4; disk0s3) is my NTFS Vista partition and slice 4 (disk0#3; disk0s4) is my Ext3 Linux partition.

    Any help on additional configuration for the .pvs file would be appreciated. Thanks,

    R. Patrick Cameron
     
  2. sidssp

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    In the .pvs file make sure the [IDE devices] section looks like this and it should work:

    Disk 0:0 enabled = 1
    Disk 0:0 = 1
    Disk 0:0 media = 1
    Disk 0:0 connected = 1
    Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp;disk0s3
    Disk 0:0 cylinders = 0
    Disk 0:0 heads = 0
    Disk 0:0 sectors = 0
    Disk 0:1 enabled = 0
    Disk 0:1 = 0
    Disk 1:0 enabled = 1
    Disk 1:0 = 2
    Disk 1:0 media = 1
    Disk 1:0 connected = 0
    Disk 1:0 image = Default CD/DVD-ROM
    Disk 1:1 enabled = 0
    Disk 1:1 = 0
     
  3. rpcameron

    rpcameron Bit poster

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    Ah, that's the extra bit of info I needed. Thank you for your response.
     

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