Giving Up

[Paul Simon]

1. Mac OS Version
OS C 10.6.1

2. Parallels Build #
4.0.3848

3. What kind of computer
MacPro1,1

4. Total Physical RAM
4GB

5. Hard Drives
4 300GB SATA Drives (Mac Formatted), 1 120GB PATA Drive, Windows 7 NTFS Boot Camp
6. If you are using a BootCamp configuration or not
Yes

7. Did you upgrade from a BETA
No

8. With what Build did the problem start
This one

9. If Parallels Tools are installed
Yes, booted into Boot Camp shows installed, Parallels says not

10. Anything you have tried to get things working
Anything and everything

11. Anything specific about your set-up you think we should know
Nope, all standard stuff, nothing fancy (Windows 7 is in x64 mode, which is possibly not fully supported on this older Mac Pro, I'll reinstall in x86 mode and try one last time).

12. If you are crashing, upload some crash logs
No crash, I always get the dreaded "Missing operating system: message, which is obviously wrong

13. If you are getting an error message type it in and then attach a screenshot.
No crash, I always get the dreaded "Missing operating system: message, which is obviously wrong

14. If you are having issues with a specific component (i.e. mouse, keyboard, monitor) tell us what it is.

 

[joevt]

How are your partitions setup? Use "diskutil list" and "sudo fdisk /dev/disk#" in Terminal.app. Also include the information about the disk from System Profiler (you can copy and paste from there) which will give the model numbers of the hard disk which Parallels shows in the Hard Disk configuration.

Maybe the active partition is not set correctly? See http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=95585