Boot Camp Issues

[LuKreme]

On 8-Nov-2007, at 14:37, Derek Chesterfield wrote:
> On 8 Nov 2007, at 20:32, LuKreme wrote:
>> OK, i tried to install Boot Camp, and failed several times.  First,  
>> I tried to partition the second internal drive on my machine.  That  
>> failed with a 'could not move some files' error.
>>
>> So, I cleared that drive of all files and tried again.  This time  
>> the partition worked, but when I rebooted off the windows disc, it  
>> would not install because it had to 'write startup files to the  
>> disk' and the disk was not the startup disk.
>>
>> Fine, I rebooted back, removed the Boot Camp partition, and tried  
>> to partition the boot drive.  That failed, again because some files  
>> could not be moved (??).
>>
>> OK, fin.  Trouble is that now, whenever the machine restarts, like  
>> for the recent QT update, I get a black screen with a 'no startup  
>> disk found' error.  I have to boot to the boot menu (which only  
>> shows one option) and then continue on to OS X.
>>
>> So, my thinking is that something in the EFI is set to try to do a  
>> boot to a windows CD, but I can't seem to fix it.
>
> Sound like you just need to reset the Startup Disk in System  
> Preferences?

Oddly, I HAD set the startup disk, but when I opened it just now, I  
noticed that nothing was selected, so I selected it again and  
rebooted.  Seems to have worked.  Very odd.

> [I have no answer about your Boot Camp issues - sorry!]

Eh, it's not like I really care, I was mostly doing it to test  
Parallels and VMWare's support for using BootCamp installs.


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