Anyone else getting a kernel panic when trying to run Boot Camp Assistant under 10.5.2?

[loup garou]

I originally had a Vista partition on my MacBook, but thought I could do everything I needed in a VM, so I used VMWare converter on it, blew the Boot Camp install away and ran Vista as a pure VM. Worked fine, but slower, obviously.

Since then, I've become fed up with Leopard for everyday use. And now I have a Sprint EVDO modem which sucks to use under OS X (have to go to Network Preferences to connect/disconnect, GPS is flaky, not to mention there is very little good GPS software for OS X anyways) and a Zune 8GB (which obviously only works with Windows).

So now, I decide I'm going to put Vista back on under Boot Camp. I run Boot Camp Assistant, select half the drive for Vista, it starts partitioning, BAM kernel panic. Reboot, disk space is taken that should be used by partition, but partition doesn't exist. Boot back into single user mode and run a fsck -f and it repairs the problems with free space. Boot back in to OS X and try again, same.

Do some googling, and it seems lots of others are having this problem, but haven't found a solution (aside from wiping drive and reinstalling or purchasing defrag software).

Anyone else have this problem or has seen a solution to it?

Apple forum thread on problem (one of several)

 

[erikistired]

works good for me. boot from the install disc and run the permissions repair and disc repair tools.

 

[budda]

I had a similar problem. I originally had a VM of XP and I wanted to install XP in bootcamp, so without reading I deleted the VM from documents. I did not get a kernal panic but I had all that space lost.

The only way I fixed my problem was getting idefrag and letting it defrag for about 3 hours.

Not sure if that helps

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: fisher
works good for me. boot from the install disc and run the permissions repair and disc repair tools.

People are saying that that is fine to recover your lost space (which I accomplished with fsck -f), but still doesn't fix the underlying problem, ie, when you try again, you still get a kernel panic. I can't try it yet as my Leopard DVD is at home and I'm at the office.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: fisher
works good for me. boot from the install disc and run the permissions repair and disc repair tools.

People are saying that that is fine to recover your lost space (which I accomplished with fsck -f), but still doesn't fix the underlying problem, ie, when you try again, you still get a kernel panic. I can't try it yet as my Leopard DVD is at home and I'm at the office.

i'd try anyway, fixing permissions seems to fix 90% of my problems. however doing it from within os x doesn't always seem to work.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: fisher
works good for me. boot from the install disc and run the permissions repair and disc repair tools.

People are saying that that is fine to recover your lost space (which I accomplished with fsck -f), but still doesn't fix the underlying problem, ie, when you try again, you still get a kernel panic. I can't try it yet as my Leopard DVD is at home and I'm at the office.

i'd try anyway, fixing permissions seems to fix 90% of my problems. however doing it from within os x doesn't always seem to work.

Good point. Guess I have to wait till later to wrap this up...

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: fisher
works good for me. boot from the install disc and run the permissions repair and disc repair tools.

People are saying that that is fine to recover your lost space (which I accomplished with fsck -f), but still doesn't fix the underlying problem, ie, when you try again, you still get a kernel panic. I can't try it yet as my Leopard DVD is at home and I'm at the office.

i'd try anyway, fixing permissions seems to fix 90% of my problems. however doing it from within os x doesn't always seem to work.

Good point. Guess I have to wait till later to wrap this up...

Well that didn't do it...and I'm not paying for defrag software for an OS that supposedly doesn't need it (and I'm not planning on really using anymore anyways). Wiped & reloaded Leopard, then Boot Camp, etc, etc. Worked fine and now I'm pooped. Hope they figure out what the problem is.

 

[d10sfan]

Boot Camp and the Assistant have always worked fine for me unless I had recently removed a partition. Then I had to repair the disk through the Leopard DVD (ugh).

 

[alfa147x]

Make sure reformat the HHD partition you plan on using in the Windows installer

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: alfa147x
Make sure reformat the HHD partition you plan on using in the Windows installer

There was no partition to format, the whole problem is that OS X crashes when I tried to create one through Boot Camp Assistant.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: alfa147x
Make sure reformat the HHD partition you plan on using in the Windows installer

There was no partition to format, the whole problem is that OS X crashes when I tried to create one through Boot Camp Assistant.

Oh sorry didint read