Hi there, I am trying to use Parallels 6 with my Bootcamp Partition under Windows 7 (running on my iMac). Bootcamp runs perfect but after creating the VM based on "Bootcamp partition" the VM tells me "missing operating system". I have tried out several things like: - re-install parallels - removing and re-creating the VMs - changing partition options nothing works. any ideas? -Toby
Try reselecting the Boot Camp disk in the Hard Disk settings. Is there an "Edit Partitions..." button (only visible when there's more than one Windows partition) ? Check your partitions using Terminal.app: Code: diskutil list /dev/disk0 sudo gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0 sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0 sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0 Check the boot code: Code: sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 count=1 | xxd Post the info here (inside [code] and [/code] to preserve spacing).
Thank you for the hint. Indeed I had more than one Windows partition. I tried "Edit partitions" but this does not help. (telling me that the VM could not access the harddrive). I decided to check the partitions under Windows and I deleted one volume/partition I did not need. After that the creation of the Bootcamp-VM runs smoothly without any problems. thanks for your help again. tobi
Note: to preserve spacing in the output, surround it with [code] and [code] instead of [QUOTE] and [/QUOTE] or attach a txt file to the post. Which version of Windows are you using? Are you able to boot your Mac into the Boot Camp partition? The MBR (output from fdisk) says the DATA partition is set as the boot partition. Which Windows partition has the boot files (DATA or BOOTCAMP)? Which Windows partition has the Windows folder? Which boot files are on the partitions? (C:\bootmgr and C:\Boot\BCD for new Windows Vista or Windows 7) (C:\ntldr and C:\boot.ini for Windows XP) Use the following commands to list the files: Code: ls -l /Volumes/DATA/ /Volume/DATA/Boot/ ls -l /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/ /Volume/BOOTCAMP/Boot/ If DATA contains the boot files, but Windows is on the BOOTCAMP partition, then you need to make sure that both partitions are selected in Virtual Machine -> Configure... -> Hardware -> Hard Disk 1 -> Edit Partitions -> select each partition that you want to be visible in the VM -> OK. It might be better to move the boot files to the same disk containing Windows (if they're not already there). Use EasyBCD to do that.
The following commands will show the boot block of your Windows partitions: Code: sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 count=1 skip=195979264 | xxd sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 count=1 skip=451289088 | xxd
Hello, tks for reply me soon, my version windows is XP, I do not understand what you say, please give me detailed instructions, thank you, My Command. 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The Windows XP boot files are on the partition named DATA. The WINDOWS folder (that contains Windows XP) is on the partition named BOOTCAMP. You need to do one of the following (A or B) to boot your BOOTCAMP partition in Parallels: A) Make sure the virtual hard disk includes both partitions. Go to Virtual Machine -> Configure... -> Hardware -> Hard Disk 1 -> Edit Partitions, then make sure both partition 3 and 4 are selected. B) Make BOOTCAMP bootable. Copy the boot files (ntldr, NTDETECT.COM, and boot.ini) from the DATA partition to the BOOTCAMP partition. Make sure boot.ini points to partition 4 (use a text editor). Then use fdisk to set partition 4 in the MBR as the bootable partition. Code: sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 To use fdisk, type "?" for help, "p" to display the partitions, "f 4" to flag partition 4 as the boot partition, "p" to display your changes, "q" to save your changes and quit. If you don't want to save changes, type "exit" instead. After making changes to the MBR, you may need to remove the Hard Disk 1 from your Parallels virtual machine, and then add the hard disk again so that Parallels will see the change. You will only need to include partition 4 to boot Parallels. You may want to include partition 3 still so that you can see it in the Parallels virtual machine.
