Hello! I've got what I think is a bizarre scenario that I'm hoping someone here can help me with:
I recently purchased a Macbook. Installed Boot Camp, and then Windows XP. Then, I downloaded the beta (build 3036) of Parallels, and installed that. I wanted to try out the feature that lets you boot up an existing boot camp partition in Parallels. In my enthusiasm, I neglected to read that Parallels Tools must be installed first.
As I recall, Parallels locked up and I had to force quit it. I'm a little fuzzy on the details of what happened next, but I seem to remember at some point trying to install Parallels Tools for XP, and having a dialog chastising me for having a "multi-boot configuration". In the current state of things, I can't boot into OS X (kernel panic. page fault.)
Here's the kicker. I can't boot from the installation cd either. After the gray apple and spinning loadey animation, it gets stuck at a blue screen. I don't know if it's bad media, or related to Parallels somehow. I'm thinking maybe it's the latter, because I tried booting into single user mode, and once I'd done that, I ran fsck, which checked out OK, and then tried to remount the volume as readable, and got the same page fault again.
XP reinstalled just fine. Why would trying to remount the root volume give me a page fault?
(edit. looks like more of a common problem than i thought. going to give the other fixes mentioned a try. sorry about missing all those threads the first time around. still welcome ideas.)
Last edited: Jan 28, 2007