Macbook (Black) and Boot camp installation failures

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Macbook (Black) and Boot camp installation failures

I have a macbook 4.1 (Black(Core Duo 2.4 GHZ)) 4 GB Ram, : Boot Rom MB41.00C1.B00 : SMC1.31ƒ0 :OSX 10.5.5 . I ran Bootcamp. setup a boot camp partition and inserted my XP Home edition with SP3 CD. Macbook restarted and the CDRom fired up, the screen was black and a curser sitting in the top left hand corner.Then nowt, CD span down Macbook just sat there. So shut down restarted MACOS & Repaired permissions, even tried an XP Pro SP2 disk, again same thing. Why wont the Macbook run the installer!. Cannot run XP CD at startup neither by holding down the "C" key. All updates have been applied to the macbook

Macbook 4.1 Black Due Core 2.4, Mac OS X (10.5.5), Boot Rom MB41.00C1.B00 : SMC1.31ƒ0

Posted on Nov 25, 2008 3:20 PM

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Answer 1

nerowolfe

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Nov 25, 2008 4:14 PM in response to Paul Evans2

If the XP CD does not show up as a bootable volume, then it is not the correct type of cd.
Some CDs come as an iso image that must be extracted and burned to another CD.
Some CDs are simply not bootable.
I presume you have checked out the optical drive by booting into the Leopard DVD as a test, so all that is left are your XP CDs.
Insert an XP CD in Leopard and look at the contents.

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Paul Evans2 Author

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Nov 26, 2008 1:27 PM in response to nerowolfe

Looked at the CD, we have an Autorun.inf, a DOCS folder, DOTNETFX folder , a I386 Folder, readme, SETUP.EXE SUPPORT and VALUEADD Folders along with WIN51, WIN51|C and WIN51|C.SP3. CD noters say this disk can be used to upgrade or install from scratch XP to a new PC. Shows up on the Desktop of Leopard as GRTMHOEM_EN has the holographs etc and a key code. My XPProSP2 cd works for my imac but not for the macbook BTW

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Answer 3

Nov 26, 2008 4:32 PM in response to Paul Evans2

I have exactly the same problem with xp pro sp3 and xp home sp2. Only at the top of the screen there are letters stating to insert a bootable disk, right after the installation starts and the macbook attempts to restart for the installation. SO, I am looking for a solution as well

Reggie (dino93309)
k6xr@mac.com

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Feb 6, 2009 5:14 PM in response to Paul Evans2

I'm having exactly the same problem on my MacBook (white) 2.4ghz -boot ROM version is MB41.00C1.B00
Neither my 2 Vista discs nor my various WinXP discs work - just a flashing cursor in the top left corner of a black screen.

Is there a firmware issue here?

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Answer 5

Feb 6, 2009 5:16 PM in response to macgyverismyhero

Oh, and just to add - I'm using original MS discs and they boot just fine under VMWare.

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