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Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used: You must update your computer's boot ROM firmware
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hi Thanks - not sure how to check that. All I did was change it to DO NOT enable journaling and back . Is there a way to know it's active? Phil
UPDATE: in disk utility it says the part of th fisk that has the MAC OS on it is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" - does that mean journaling is enabled!
ANOTHER UPDATE : I have my snow leopard OS disc.. is there a way to uninstall boot amp and reinstall it from the OSX set up disk (obviously without the need to re-install anything else of the OS)
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UPDATE 11TH JAN 2011- Apple Support try to help
Ref the above - yes it does say that, and still Boot Camp gives the same error ("cannot run BC - you must update your system software before using this
SO..as I bought Snow Leopard 4 weeks ago, I decided to call APPLE SUPPORT ... they were very co-operative and talked me through:
1- insert Mac OS install disc
2- boot from disc
3- run disk utility and run verify permissions and all other error checking.
I had already done this and it still did not help.
The Apple Support guy said "enabling journaling" was not relevant.
He said it as probably a fault with Boot Camp or some associated file which had happened when i installed Snow Leopard in december. As you CANNOT reinstall boot camp from the OSX install disc... his solution was to do an "archive and reinstall' of the whole Operating System.
This means putting in the OSX install disc, and restarting the mac, while holding down the C key.. this makes it boot from the OSX install disc.
Then you follow the steps to install OSX again. If you follow the highlighted instructions, it will keep all your settings, other programmes and files.
I did this.. but now find I have over 1Gb of updates to install. Boot Camp still gives the same error, and until I am home with a nig enough download speed/limit I will have to wait to run all the installs and see IF IT WORKS.
I'll post the outcome here in two days.
My reaction - Apple Support were very helpful on the phone BUT the whole thing is VERY ANNOYING.. I did not buy a Mac to have this sort of headache!!!
(ps - I still love my Macbook)
Ref the above - yes it does say that, and still Boot Camp gives the same error ("cannot run BC - you must update your system software before using this
SO..as I bought Snow Leopard 4 weeks ago, I decided to call APPLE SUPPORT ... they were very co-operative and talked me through:
1- insert Mac OS install disc
2- boot from disc
3- run disk utility and run verify permissions and all other error checking.
I had already done this and it still did not help.
The Apple Support guy said "enabling journaling" was not relevant.
He said it as probably a fault with Boot Camp or some associated file which had happened when i installed Snow Leopard in december. As you CANNOT reinstall boot camp from the OSX install disc... his solution was to do an "archive and reinstall' of the whole Operating System.
This means putting in the OSX install disc, and restarting the mac, while holding down the C key.. this makes it boot from the OSX install disc.
Then you follow the steps to install OSX again. If you follow the highlighted instructions, it will keep all your settings, other programmes and files.
I did this.. but now find I have over 1Gb of updates to install. Boot Camp still gives the same error, and until I am home with a nig enough download speed/limit I will have to wait to run all the installs and see IF IT WORKS.
I'll post the outcome here in two days.
My reaction - Apple Support were very helpful on the phone BUT the whole thing is VERY ANNOYING.. I did not buy a Mac to have this sort of headache!!!
(ps - I still love my Macbook)
It definitely shouldn't be relevant, but it seems to have solved the problem for many folks when Disk Utility no longer shows Journaling is on for some reason.
The reinstall makes sense to try at least. Let us know how it turns out.
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BOOT CAMP- OSX instability
ARGGGHHH.... now late evening.
After reinstalling the OS, the Mac seemed to work, but when I restarted it later, it went blue screen and froze. Next restart it came to my desktop, but everything was frozen, no mouse of keyboard input (this is a macbook).
Third restart... and it was OK. I tried Boot Camp and IT WORKED just like that. No rhyme nor reason.... NOW to my newest disaster...
I went ahead, and partitioned 100Gb of my 500 Gb disc with BootCamp, and installed Vista Home Premium.
THEN my macbook would only start up in Windows Vista, and not MacOSX. I hed the option key during startup, still got vista, then started trying all the other keys ... when I held down the ESC key some Vista boot loader tried to tell me the ONLY start up option was Vista. i ignored that and restarted again..
This time I think I hit the ALT key and the C or maybe X (I've since read than holding down X will force it to start into OSX) AND VOILA !! .. the macbook started in Mac OSX . Hurrah. I went to system preferences and selected Mac OSX as the default start up Operating System.
BUT NOW:
1- I can't get it to give me a choice of starting in Vista - again holding down C or X or ALT or CMD won't do anything. It just starts in Mac OSX every time.
AND WORST OF ALL - MAC OSX had become UNSTABLE starting up at all... The last few times I've restarted, I've got either the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH... or my desktop with everything frozen.
This is all leading me to think i should never have started !!!
Once I've managed to install all the OSX updtes later this week I will see how the Macbook is running.. and frankly if its this bad , I'll back up, erase the whole diska nd reinstall from clean
GRRRRRRRRRRR
phil
ARGGGHHH.... now late evening.
After reinstalling the OS, the Mac seemed to work, but when I restarted it later, it went blue screen and froze. Next restart it came to my desktop, but everything was frozen, no mouse of keyboard input (this is a macbook).
Third restart... and it was OK. I tried Boot Camp and IT WORKED just like that. No rhyme nor reason.... NOW to my newest disaster...
I went ahead, and partitioned 100Gb of my 500 Gb disc with BootCamp, and installed Vista Home Premium.
THEN my macbook would only start up in Windows Vista, and not MacOSX. I hed the option key during startup, still got vista, then started trying all the other keys ... when I held down the ESC key some Vista boot loader tried to tell me the ONLY start up option was Vista. i ignored that and restarted again..
This time I think I hit the ALT key and the C or maybe X (I've since read than holding down X will force it to start into OSX) AND VOILA !! .. the macbook started in Mac OSX . Hurrah. I went to system preferences and selected Mac OSX as the default start up Operating System.
BUT NOW:
1- I can't get it to give me a choice of starting in Vista - again holding down C or X or ALT or CMD won't do anything. It just starts in Mac OSX every time.
AND WORST OF ALL - MAC OSX had become UNSTABLE starting up at all... The last few times I've restarted, I've got either the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH... or my desktop with everything frozen.
This is all leading me to think i should never have started !!!
Once I've managed to install all the OSX updtes later this week I will see how the Macbook is running.. and frankly if its this bad , I'll back up, erase the whole diska nd reinstall from clean
GRRRRRRRRRRR
phil
NOTE: If you download and save the combo updater, you won't have to do it again when you reinstall. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
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For boot camp asst to work properly..
1. Partition other than mac partition must not be there in the hardisk. ie., any other OS partitions prior to using boot camp.
2. partition must be a single large partition, rather than a number of partition if not partitioned through boot camp.
Use Disk utility in the Utilities folder to do the above tasks. Then boot camp shud run fine by now.
1. Partition other than mac partition must not be there in the hardisk. ie., any other OS partitions prior to using boot camp.
2. partition must be a single large partition, rather than a number of partition if not partitioned through boot camp.
Use Disk utility in the Utilities folder to do the above tasks. Then boot camp shud run fine by now.