3036 Beta: May have corrupted Boot Camp Partition

3036 Beta: Black Screen of Death booting Boot Camp Partition

Wanting to get things moving fast I tried to use a Boot Camp partition in order to create a new "VM" prior to installing Boot Camp tools. It didn't work of course. Reading the docs I realized my mistake, booted into the Boot Camp partition and installed tools. Booted into OSX and tried to create the "VM" using the Boot Camp partition. It didn't work again.

I booted into boot camp again, noticed that I was given a choice of partitions, chose the first one (not the parallels one) and looked around to make sure tools were installed.

Back to the OSX side again, and no dice. Rebooted into Boot Camp and now can't get past the black screen with the original or Parallels options. It won't take arrows, won't boot. It's frozen.

Do I start over? Shame on me for not following documentation. DOH, DUH, silly silly me. My fault all my fault. I was dumb. Sorry, sorry, sorry me. OK, help me if you can. Thanks in advance.

Update: I've attempted to repair the Boot Camp partition and have been able to successfully (by having the XP cd in the drive) get the partition to boot again. I then uninstalled and then reinstalled Boot Camp tools. No changes in the results from the OSX side....i.e. I still can't get the "VM" to work using the Boot Camp Partition.

My Mac: Black Macbook Core 2 Duo 1Gig Ram/ 120GB HD.

 

exactly the same problem here with a macbook c2d.... wenn i start bootcamp-windows in parallels 3036 i get a blue screen, when i start windows native in bootcamp i can't get past the black screen with boot options... seems to be a common problem, read about it somewhere already...

any hints or tips?

 

Got this figured out. I had formatted my boot camp partition Fat 32, changed it to NTFS and no problems at all. That is unless you want to transfer files from OSX to your new NTFS partition...that will not work.

The nice thing is that XP runs a little faster from the Boot Camp partition. I'd hope that implies stability too.