Bootcamp 1.2 (XP part) won't boot from Parallels anymore.

3188, Bootcamp 1.2, Macbook Pro Core2 Duo, 10.4.9, 2GB.

I am (well, was) booting my XP bootcamp partition with Parallels. Right now, when I boot the partition via parallels, the machine will only halt to a stand-still at the all blue "Welcome" screen, where you would normally see the list of local users to log in as and select one. Parallels also posts the overlay message reporting that it is going to install Parallels Tools, which never happens, since the XP system is not moving. This is NOT a BSOD issue. There is none. The XP system just stops at the point described.

This was running fine for a week (I have had my mac for 2). Then the machine hung yesterday while simultaneously saving a doc in Word (for Windows) to my Mac volume (via network shared drive in windows) and execution of the unpacking phase an MSI application (was trying to start the installation of a standard Windows app. The system is only base SP2 of XP, and AU is off.

Currently, I can only boot the XP partition natively, after I run bootcamp from within OSX and tell it to start the setup disk. Before I did that, it didn't matter if I booted the partition natively or via parallels, the machine would halt to a stand-still at the all blue "Welcome" screen, where you would normally see the list of local users to log in as and select one.

Windows Event log shows nothing for the Parallels-based boot attempts. Netlogon debugging is enabled and no log gets generated on the Parallels-based boot attempts.

Does someone have a debug build of Parallels 388, or Bootcamp 1.2 that I can run? Or have any serious recommendation. I am trying to work on this thing and need to get to my tools in my XP environment.

Thanks to the community in advance.

Phil

 

NM. Somehow my VPN adapter/sofware was halting things at that point (did an Alt/Apple tab to cycle through running prorgams).

Shew!