Boot Camp (WinApple) Reporting Crashes

[RoyGBiv]

In the FYI department ...

Boot Camp users reporting serious crashes
April 10, 2006 9:08 PM PDT

Over on the Apple.com discussion boards, a number of people are reporting that Boot Camp--Apple's new software that allows Intel-based Mac owners to install Windows XP--is causing some serious problems.

To be precise, the common crisis is that after partitioning their hard drives and installing Windows XP--which seems to work fine--these people find they can no longer boot back into OS X.

And it's not just one or two people. A quick read through these forums revealed around 10 people with the problem--and a growing list of scary-sounding error messages.

A few of them are posting back with possible solutions, many of them rather complex for a novice user, but then again, novice users probably aren't the ones installing Boot Camp at this point, anyway.

http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-6059694.html

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. Well, it is a Beta..

And it works fine here.

[cheezus]

2. Dude, what do you expect from installing windows?

;)

[RoyGBiv]

3. Hehe ...

Yeah, I kinda thought that. Sort of a "Welcome to the World of MS" thing. :-)

I actually do wonder what configurations are causing this to happen and why. I don't have a Mac, so have no real clue what is going on here, but I still find this curious. Seems like the sort of thing they'd make sure didn't happen on as many configurations as possible, even if it is a BETA.