Unable to open image Boot Camp!

[robothouse]

Ola folks...

I'm getting the "Unable to open image Boot Camp" error when trying to open my Boot Camp partition in Parallels. This happened after a month's worth of perfect use. The application kept on bugging me to update, but alas, I was already at build 3188. I "upgraded" anyways after getting annoyed by the message. This killed my ability to run my Boot Camp partition via Parallels. Works great in Boot Camp though. The BC partition disappears from the desktop when it starts to run, then reappears as the error message comes up.

Specs: MBP 2.33 Core 2 Duo running 10.4.9
Boot Camp has XP Pro SP2 installed w/ all updates
BC partition is on same physical drive as OSX and is NTFS.
Parallels is looking @ 0:0 for the partition.

Anyone have a clue? Parallels tech seems to think that Boot Camp is NOT supported even though it's clearly listed as supported here:

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/ga/features/bootcamp/

I'm confused and would like to use the product as advertised!

Also, here is my .pvs file:

[System]
Boot = c
Parallels VM Name = BC
VM Id = {144e614a-21e7-4c6e-8a0e-686c0fe4158c}
VM Description =
OS Type = 135
Memory = 1024
Video Memory = 16
Memory block size = 10
Acceleration level = 2
Enable write-back disk cache = 1
VT-x support = 1
Start auto = 0
AutoShutdown = 0
Start full screen = 21
Start dashmode = 0
Start full screen warning = 1
PC Speaker enable = 1
Window Mode = 0
Multi frame = -1
Guest Tools Status = -1
[Shared folders]
Shared folders enabled = 1
Sharing enabled = 0
Shared folders count = 0
[Video]
Video resolutions enabled = 1
Video resolutions count = 0
[Coherence]
Show taskbar = 1
Relocate taskbar = 0
Exclude Dock = 1
Multiple displays = 0
[IDE devices]
Disk 0:0 enabled = 1
Disk 0:0 = 1
Disk 0:0 media = 1
Disk 0:0 connected = 1
Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp
Disk 0:0 cylinders = 0
Disk 0:0 heads = 0
Disk 0:0 sectors = 0
Disk 0:1 enabled = 1
Disk 0:1 = 2
Disk 0:1 media = 1
Disk 0:1 connected = 1
Disk 0:1 image = Default CD/DVD-ROM
Disk 1:0 enabled = 0
Disk 1:0 = 0
Disk 1:1 enabled = 0
Disk 1:1 = 0
[Floppy disks]
Floppy 0 enabled = 1
Floppy 0 = 1
Floppy 0 image = /Library/Parallels/Tools/vmtools.fdd
Floppy 0 connected = 0
[Serial ports]
COM1 enabled = 0
COM1 = 0
COM2 enabled = 0
COM2 = 0
COM3 enabled = 0
COM3 = 0
COM4 enabled = 0
COM4 = 0
[Parallel ports]
LPT1 enabled = 0
LPT1 = 0
LPT2 enabled = 0
LPT2 = 0
LPT3 enabled = 0
LPT3 = 0
[Sound]
Sound enabled = 1
Sound = 1
Sound connected = 1
Sound device = Default Audio
Mixer device = Default Audio
[Network]
Network enabled = 1
Network = 3
Network connected = 1
Adapter No = 0
Adapter name = Default Adapter
Adapter type = 4
Port = 0x00000300
IRQ = 3
MAC address = 00a5a5a3f5bc
Network2 enabled = 0
Network2 = 0
Network3 enabled = 0
Network3 = 0
Network4 enabled = 0
Network4 = 0
Network5 enabled = 0
Network5 = 0
[Usb]
USB enabled = 1
USB = 1
USB autoconnect = 0

 

[fluffybunny]

im having this exact same error, exact same conditions, except I have never had it working, and I just upgraded to build 3188.

 

[mtlee]

Not sure this really helps you guys, but perhaps anybody at Parallels or some other tech wizard who looks at this problem - my system gives me the error described in the posts above on occasion, but if I wait a few seconds and press the 'play' button in the Parallels window, it finds the Boot Camp partition and boots right up.

I'd say this happens about 60% of the time. I haven't been able to figure out what I do differently the times that it does not happen.

Mike

 

[Eru Ithildur]

Not sure this really helps you guys, but perhaps anybody at Parallels or some other tech wizard who looks at this problem - my system gives me the error described in the posts above on occasion, but if I wait a few seconds and press the 'play' button in the Parallels window, it finds the Boot Camp partition and boots right up.

I'd say this happens about 60% of the time. I haven't been able to figure out what I do differently the times that it does not happen.

Mike

That is how some of our computers behaved during the Beta builds... Anyone upgraded from a Beta?