Boot Camp is not installed on this computer!?

[__david__]

I bought a new disk for my MacBook (Core Duo). I copied my old partitions over and spent all day getting everything back up and running--I can now boot into my linux partition or my mac partition. I also have a windows partition that I haven't set up yet. My old disk had just a mac and a linux partition.

On my old disk I used parallels to boot into the linux partition when I was running on my mac. With my new disk when I try to run parallels I get the following message:

The Hard Disk 2 is set to use the Boot Camp while Boot Camp is not installed on this computer!

Hard disk 1 is a small parallels disk image that just has /boot with some kernels + grub that I use to bootstrap the main bootcamp partition (hard disk 2).

The main question is, What on earth does this error message mean? Boot camp works just fine--I've been booting into it all day--so why does parallels think it's "not installed"?

What can I do to fix it?

I thought maybe it was a bug in version 3214 which I've been using since it came out, but I tried upgrading to 5160 (complete with a new trial key) but it tells me the exact same thing.

-David

 

[__david__]

Sigh. I'm back up and running. It took a complete uninstall of parallels and then a reinstall. I still have no idea what the error message was trying to tell me. Maybe it should be changed to "Parallels is screwed up. Please reinstall."

That would at least be helpful.

Snarky comments aside, I'm glad it is working again. Being able to run in both a vm and bootcamp is essential for my job and sanity.

-David

 

[__david__]

Ok. Now it's broken again.

So I happened to restart my computer and suddenly Parallels doesn't work again (same message: "Boot Camp is not installed on this computer!").

I tried what I did last time to fix it (uninstall, reboot, install) but I still am not working. This is very frustrating. What on earth does that error mean? How do I fix it?

-David

 

[__david__]

Please help me!

I need Parallels to do my work. Right now it wont boot at all because of this stupid message. But there is nothing wrong with the boot camp partition--It boots just fine! I've temporarily worked around the problem by installing VMWare (which works just fine, by the way). So why is Parallels not working? I've only got a 2 week evaluation period on VMWare, so I need to get Parallels working before then.

Please, someone at tech support, help me!

-David

ps. I tried to use your email support but your web server is giving me a 500 server error when I log in.