Can't boot into Vista "Missing operating system" error...

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Eric Oxenberg

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Last week I launched Parallels and ran Vista on my Mac Pro. Nothing has changed in my implementation of Parallels 4 since, and I can boot into Windows via Boot Camp. However, today, when I run Parallels desktop and start my VM, I see the following:

"Trying to boot from Secondary Master IDE drive..." (my Boot camp disk is SATA)
"Missing operating system_"

and can't do anything but shut down the VM and close Parallels. To get more information, I looked on the Parallels web site. There are no branches in the Parallels Troubleshooter for this issue, no knowledgebase results for "missing operating system" and no hits for that phrase in the forums either. I bought Parallels under six months ago and have used it only a few days, so I feel paying $10 for email support is kind of a rip-off. Does anyone have experience with this? Do I have to remove Parallels and my VM and rebuild one from scratch?

I have a 2006 Mac Pro with 6GB RAM and two drives, one of which is a dedicated 320GB Vista disk. Running Mac OS 10.5.8 Leopard.

Thanks.
 
Hi Eric,
please issue the following command in Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal):
diskutil list
And post output here. Is it correct that previously you used to start Boot Camp'ed VM in Parallels Desktop fine?
 
btw, you can easily try recreating VM from Boot Camp in Parallels Desktop - this does not affect Windows installation in any way.
 
I-che said:
Hi Eric,
please issue the following command in Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal):
diskutil list
And post output here. Is it correct that previously you used to start Boot Camp'ed VM in Parallels Desktop fine?
Click to expand...

From Terminal:

/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *372.6 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Big cabinet 225.0 Gi disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Small cabinet 100.0 Gi disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Empty drawer 47.0 Gi disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk1
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 297.9 Gi disk1s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *596.2 Gi disk2
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Racer X 595.9 Gi disk2s2
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk3
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS Little Dog 295.0 Gi disk3s2
3: Apple_HFS Big Dog 636.1 Gi disk3s3

And yes, it worked okay last week. Thanks. Glad to know you're up when it's bed time here in the states!
 
Hello Eric,
thank you for details. We are aware of the issue and work on it. You can check this post, too. You can try to remove Boot Camp-based VM and to create a new one, however.
 
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