Boot Camp and Parallels (please help me)

I'm trying to use the feature from the Parallels beta (3036) that lets you boot your boot camp partition inside a VM. After some false starting I read that you have to install Parallels Tools inside Windows first. I'm trying to do that, and I get an evil dialog telling me that my boot camp has multi-boot configuration, and that this is something parallels tools doesn't support. What is that, and why do I have it?

(edit) It looked installed, even though it said there were problems... anyways, I shut down windows, and tried to start OS X, and now it's telling me that I need to restart my computer every time I try to boot into OS X (that dark screen... four languages...).

(edit2) Ok... I can't boot into OS X, as previously mentioned. I can't boot with the Install CD, as it locks up at a blank blue screen. I can't boot into Windows either. It gets to the boot loader, the keyboard isn't responsive (ie I can't turn caps lock on and off or select the appropriate boot option), and it thinks that I pressed some button, because the usual 30-second countdown isn't there. I think Parallels just bricked my Macbook...

 

I would recommend using build 3120 ( http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/) over 3036 as there are quite a lot of problems reported regarding build 3036.
It seems that build 3036 has totally messed up both of your OSes. The dark screen with four languages means a Kernel error, so I think you will have to re-install your OS X.

 

Hence the name Beta

 

Dang, I'm using that beta. I knew there was a good reason I'm doing an image backup each week using SuperDuper and a continious remote backup of my user area via StorGrid.

I just run in VM's with no BootCamp, and thank goodness no issues yet.

 

Thanks for the advice Budding... problem is, when I try to load the install CD, it gets stuck at a blank blue screen, after the grey apple logo loading screen.

Zentox: Useless smartass comments are always welcome.

jim: pity I haven't gotten around to getting a backup system in place, eh? At least I haven't got too much data piled up on this hdd yet. Just some school notes...

Oddly enough, Windows reinstalled just fine. My macbook is Windows-only. Cute.

 

Did you enable the firmware lock on your Macbook? If you did it would not actually try to boot from your CD unless you held down the C key or ALT key while booting.

It sounds like its trying to boot from the (corrupted) hard drive and not your OS X disks.

Try a couple of boots using the keys above. You may be asked for a firmware or admin password too.

 

When it tries to boot from the hdd, then I get the "The words 'kernel panic' are scary and informative. You need to reboot." screen. When I boot from the install cd (after holding down Alt-Options button) I get a blank blue screen. If I boot in verbose mode, I learn that it's a page fault. I'm learning about OS X troubleshooting. heheh. I can boot into single user mode, and I get a command prompt... so I'm going to see what I can do with that.

this is interesting: In single user mode, I ran fsck -fy, and it said the Macintosh HD volume appears OK. Then, I tried mount -uw /, and the kernel panic from before came back again. A page fault... What does that mean (not the page fault. The mounting disk writable causes a page fault.)?

edit: Looks like this is a common problem in the Parallels forums. I'll try the stuff they're trying and see if anything good happens.