The short version: I had suceeded in getting the Bluetooth to work to allow PDA syncing. I was a happy camper. I went to shut down my Parallels Windows XP window when the computer hung for quite a while. (The Parallels XP window had shut down to the point where I had a black screen and a message that said it was alright to shut down the machine). I was unable to get anything to work, so I shut the computer down with the power button. Now, on boot up I get a note in various languages that says "restart the computer by pressing the power button". (A Kernal panic?) upon which I restart and I get the same message, no boot into OS X. If I hold down the options button, I can select OS X or Windows and get the restart screen and if I select OS X I get the same restart screen no reboot. If I select Windows I get a black screen and if I'm quick there's a option to select the Parallels boot up or the WIndows XP Home Edition boot up. If I catch the Windows XP Home edition the computer boots right into XP works great! Now the frustrating part, I figure oh well I'll just reinstall everything by booting from Mac OS X Disks and reinstall the whole system and start over. After starting the machine and holding down the "c" key I get the grey screen with the apple and spinning wheel and after a min or so I get a light blue screen and that's all, no install screen, nothing. So, I can't boot into Mac OS X but I can boot into Windows XP.... Help!!!!
Vistied the local Apple Store, great folks I am impressed with their service. The tech was able to boot up the computer using a disk he had for OS X 10.4.7 We then used my DVD to install the latest version after archiving the previous OS and files and I was outta there after 45 mins. I did find a ton of stuff on here after I posted my note. I found the best info by searching blue screen (not the BSOD) I did have to reload some software but Itunes and Iphotos just only had to be moved out of the archive folder. The question is what happened? I was about to try the latest Parallels RC2 again but I laid on the floor until the feeling went away and I'm gonna wait until the official version. BTW I was able to fix the Boot into Windows XP by modifing the boot.ini file. There's a thread here somewhere on the board here that explained it... Whew, glad I got my MacBook back in one peace!
Sounds like the problems this guy had in this thread. Some other solutions are suggested here. Really sucks that this hasn't been fixed yet - been dying to try parallels again for quite some time now
okay, i don't have access to any of the fixes described in the other threads, but can see my mac os x partition from my bootcamp partition using macdrive 6. i've deleted the library/startupitems/parallels folder and the parallels app folder and its folder from the library. still won't boot even from the cd. as i can see my mac os x disc, does anyone have any advice on which files to alter/delete to enable a boot from the mac os install disc? failing that, is there a way to reformat my mac os partition and reinstall mac os without touching the bootcamp partition? (that way i could move a lot of files onto the xp partition to save them without having to burn a lot of dvds). thanks
just to give other people info i was running xp from my bootcamp partition on build 3150. the crash happened as windows was installing downloads and i tried to get a usb drive to work. i managed to shut down the vm to the point where the 'it is now safe to turn off your computer page' before os x crashed with the 'you need to restart your computer' message.
fixed by repairing disc from a friend's g4 ibook and starting in target disc mode. disk utility showed no errors, but on repairing disc it booted fine.
