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Parallels via BootCamp Partition: Eliminate Dialog on Startup
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rockville, MD
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Hi,
I got the new Parallels beta to use my BootCamp partition, which is great. My problem right now is that whenever I launch WinXP via Parallels, I get what looks like a DOS menu asking if I want to use the "parallels configuration" or the "Windows XP configuration".
In an ideal world, the machine would know to use the Windows XP configuration when I use BootCamp and the parallels config when I use parallels and thus skip the dialog. But it doesn't.
So how do I either a) teach the machine to do this automatically or b) eliminate one of the configs? See also the end of this thread.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Central Texas
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As far as I know - you can't. Windows simply doesn't know which config to use at startup.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2005
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While I do not remember the exact procedure, you can probably modify the boot.ini of Windows XP to choose the first option after a delay of xx seconds. If it chooses the first option by default 2 times, it will be fine for Bootcamp. However, I haven't tried myself and if it does that in bootcamp, it will probably do that in Parallels as well and that means that if you don't select the correct options fast enough in Parallels it would start on the wrong hardware config and probably mess it up. Tha's my theory 
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Yes, you can do that, however that's not what he's asking for. He wants it to choose the profile automatically based on booting up in BootCamp or Parallels.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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I just installed the Parallels Boot Camp tools and get the same prompts that everyone else gets--annoying.
One question, though: My trackpad doesn't work in Parallels, although it does in Boot Camp. I've installed the Boot Camp drivers, too.
Does anyone have any suggestions? An external USB mouse doesn't work either.
Thanks.
P.S. I also get a weird message about the ATI drivers being missing. I can just dismiss this, but still...
UPDATE: I got everything to work after reinstalling the Parallels tools. Thanks!
(Last edited by rlorenc; Dec 12, 2006 at 01:36 PM.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rockville, MD
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Not only am I getting the stupid dialog, but I am also being told I have to reactivate Windows. Grrrr. Do folks think that if I uninstalled BootCamp, trashed all my Parallels VMs, and started over I could avoid both problems?
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