[ajprice]

I've installed Windows XP onto my Macbook with Boot Camp, and it works fine. I've now downloaded a trial of Parallels to set up with the Boot Camp partition, and the option for Boot Camp (like on the screen below) is greyed out in the setup screen.

I'm also unable to choose a Windows system on the other partition, I only have the option of a network computer or firewire connection. Any idea what is wrong here? I went to the parallels support page and it said to repair permissions on the disk and restart, I did this and it made no difference.

[cgc]

I had the same problem a while back and forgot how I fixed it. Have you searched these forums or Google?

[cgc]

Guess you didn't try Google, first hit is Parallels / Knowledge Base / Boot Camp: Boot Camp option is grayed out

Amazing what you find when you actually look...

[ajprice]

Yep looked around google and searched here, but not found any answers.

[Cold Warrior]

Originally Posted by cgc 

Guess you didn't try Google, first hit is Parallels / Knowledge Base / Boot Camp: Boot Camp option is grayed out

Hah. Parallels uses MAC when they mean Mac.

[ajprice]

Originally Posted by ajprice 

...I went to the parallels support page and it said to repair permissions on the disk and restart, I did this and it made no difference.

Originally Posted by cgc 

Guess you didn't try Google, first hit is Parallels / Knowledge Base / Boot Camp: Boot Camp option is grayed out

Amazing what you find when you actually look...

Thanks for finding the same thing I did, and said in the original post.

[ibook_steve]

I'm not quite sure I understand your setup. I'm assuming you have Windows installed on a separate partition on your main hard drive through Boot Camp. Is Boot Camp working? Can you boot into Windows? Try booting into Windows then rebooting back to Mac OS X and try again with Parallels.

Steve

[ajprice]

ibook_steve, it's Windows XP installed through Boot Camp onto a partition on my Macbook's hard drive (partition was created by the Boot Camp setup assistant).

Boot Camp and XP run fine, and the Boot Camp control panel and drivers are installed onto XP from the Leopard disc as it should be. Its Parallels 3.0 Build 5584 downloaded from the Parallels site, activated with a trial key.

[ajprice]

I nearly had it, but now it's gone again.

I booted with the OS X install disk and repaired disks, even though the report said there were no problems afterwards. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled Parallels, found the vmtools files and copied them to a folder in the windows partition. Booted into windows, then booted back to Mac using the boot camp Restart in Mac OS. When I went to Parallels it jumped straight into setting up with boot camp, and made a VM. I started the VM, and got the DOS startup screen, it found the hard disk and RAM size, but hung on starting up the hard drive. No option but to stop the VM and quit. Started up Parallels again and it said the Hard Disk 1 was not installed, so wouldn't start. Quit and restarted parallels again, trying to make a new VM, and I am now back where I started with Boot Camp greyed out.

Grrrrr, so close.

[cgc]

Originally Posted by ajprice 

Thanks for finding the same thing I did, and said in the original post.

Anytime. In my defense, there has been a rash of postings on these forums with people asking questions they could easily solve with some searching. On the surface, your post seemed the same...

Have you tried deleting all traces of Parallels and reinstalling?

[donny31]

Originally Posted by cgc 

Guess you didn't try Google, first hit is Parallels / Knowledge Base / Boot Camp: Boot Camp option is grayed out

Amazing what you find when you actually look...

who do you think you are? you suck

[cgc]

Originally Posted by donny31 

who do you think you are? you suck

Least my post attempted to help..."Well I'm sure we can handle this like the mature adults we are isn't that right Mr. Poopy...Pants" (Naked Gun quote)