Boot Camp not booting separately on Snow Leopard

Installed bootcamp and windows xp in parallels as I can't bootup direct from windows.
I'm using an external DVD/CD player as my built-in drive is shot. I've tried in 10.6.8 and now back in 10.6.0 as it runs faster.
Any ideas on how I can boot directly to windows?

H.Ireland wrote:
Installed bootcamp and windows xp in parallels as I can't bootup direct from windows.
I'm using an external DVD/CD player as my built-in drive is shot. I've tried in 10.6.8 and now back in 10.6.0 as it runs faster.
Any ideas on how I can boot directly to windows?
If you installed Windows in Parallels then you can't direct boot into Windows. You can only direct boot into Windows if you installed Windows using Boot Camp Assistant. And only after Windows was installed using Boot Camp Assistant and working using direct boot would you install and configure Parallels to use your already installed Windows as the Parallels target operating system.

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I have a copy of Windows 7, and I am trying to bring up Boot Camp on my MacBook with Snow Leopard. But my Snow Leopard install disk is too old for Windows 7, so attempted Boot Camp install of drivers fails.
I have hand-installed the NVidia graphics driver, and I have keyboard, minimal trackpad, and hardwire to internet all working. So the WIndows machine is usable. But I am hurting for wi-fi, better trackpad, and whatever else is delivered by Boot Camp. I can't use any of the Boot Camp upgrades because I do not have XP or Vista.

Dear Nathan,
Many thanks. To the best of my memory, that is how I got where I am today. Initially I had one failed setup, then discovered compatibility mode and ran using it. The result was not an obvious failure, but something was not there because not only were some drivers missing (wi-fi, trackpad, ...) but (much to my disappointment) the 3.1 update would not run. It complained that 3.0 wasn't there. If I hardwired to my home network, the machine would do almost everything I wanted, but the graphics were slow and clumsy. That is when I hunted around for the NVidia driver and downloaded it from NVidia. And that is where I stand now.
My son found this link http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/01/15/using-boot-camp-to-install-windows-7-on-you r-mac-the-complete-walkthrough/
which has instructions claiming to do the install straight to Win 7 without using compatibility mode.
Given that my clumsy efforts to patch things up have probably necessitated a Win 7 deinstall and reinstall to test either your plan or the one my son found, I am inclined to sit tight for a couple of days to see how much I can learn.
I appreciate your interest in this problem, and if you are up for reading the process at the link my son found and commenting, I would be grateful.
In any case, many thanks, Paul

I have a copy of Windows 7, and I am trying to bring up Boot Camp on my MacBook with Snow Leopard. But my Snow Leopard install disk is too old for Windows 7, so attempted Boot Camp install of drivers fails.

I have a copy of Windows 7, and I am trying to bring up Boot Camp on my MacBook with Snow Leopard. But my Snow Leopard install disk is too old for Windows 7, so attempted Boot Camp install of drivers fails.
I have hand-installed the NVidia graphics driver, and I have keyboard, minimal trackpad, and hardwire to internet all working. So the WIndows machine is usable. But I am hurting for wi-fi, better trackpad, and whatever else is delivered by Boot Camp. I can't use any of the Boot Camp upgrades because I do not have XP or Vista.

While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us use Boot Camp. There's a Boot Camp Support Community where everybody uses Boot Camp. You should also post this question there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Boot camp beta 1.2 to Snow Leopard

I've finally got around to updating Tiger to Snow Leopard (prep for Lion), which went fine, but I can't seem to update Boot Camp beta 1.2. When I try to run the boot camp assistant setup from the Snow Leopard disc in XP I get a prompt telling me errors were encountered, and that I need to try again later. XP is working ok with the old drivers. I know I could remove XP (SP2) 32 bit entirely and start over, but I'd rather not. Any ideas? Thanks.
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In the same relative boat as you TNBriggs however I've a MacPro 1,1 2.66 with Snow Leopard OSX 10.68 with old Tiger-made Boot Camp Beta running Windows Vista Ultimate with about 160Gb partition (not big enough for me now) on an 1.5Tb triple partitioned drive. Also have upgraded original Radeon X1900 to a Radeon 3870 and that's where the probs started. Because I can't use any of the retail Boot Camps, I can't access graphics drivers for Windows Vista nor XP for the 3870 from AMD's site. They're all looking for newer Boot Camp resources to run all the graphic card parts of Apple's code. So snookered.
I also had XP 32-bit in another Tiger partition before that but since uninstalled as it would never take XP SP3. Only way I could ever get either Windows to work was to install drivers manually off original Tiger OSX retail DVD. I also have a Leopard OSX retail DVD but never tried its Boot Camp.
I also only want Windows on it for the rival R/C software - PHOENIX R/C 2.5 (now 3.0) and Microsoft FSX sim.
Was wanting to upgrade to the proper new Boot Camp drivers on SL OSX retail DVD but of course it didn't work.
THE PLAN
As HD prices have sky-rocketed since the Thailand floods wiped out all the Hard Drive factories last year, drives are becoming scarer by the day, and it'll be at least a year before any of the factories are up and running again, so 2012 will be HD ****.
Am going to back-up my other two partitions on the Windows drive and then wipe the whole lot and start again (but with a bigger 2Tb HD). Will then let SL's Boot Camp Assistant do its thing and just buy a 32-Bit Vista Home Premium OEM disk this time second-hand. As far as I'm aware the SL drivers will then work when it comes the time to put in the disk once it's all in (cos SL's OEM disk doesn't allow you to put in one driver at a time like Tiger etc. OEM disk did).
There is a way to get Windows 7 32-bit on a MacPro 1.1 on other forums, but I think leaving it at Vista will be better than nothing as it all worked greated in Vista Ultimate 64-Bit before I upgraded to Snow Leopard and swopped out the Radeon card to the later Radeon 3870. Phoenix R/C and FSX both ran sweetly. But again, the underpinnings of the whole thing had Boot Camp Beta (from Tiger's days) running it all thus I couldn't access the later updates from Apple, thus the reason to have to go through all this nonsense again.

Want to Dual Boot Tiger and Snow Leopard

I have 4 internal SATA drives on my 2007 Mac Pro, and my boot drive is Tiger 10.4.11. I just purchased Snow Leopard (Box Set), with the intention of creating a second internal boot drive that boots Snow Leopard.
I mentioned this in passing to a senior Apple Tech who indicated he thought I could do it. However I seem to remember reading the second boot drive should be an External Fire Wire.
The first question is, can I create a second boot drive (using Snow Leopard) on my Mac Pro on an internal HD?
Second question is, can the second Snow Leopard boot be on a partition? I just bought a 2 TB WD that I'd like to split up.
Thanks!

can I create a second boot drive (using Snow Leopard) on my Mac Pro on an internal HD?
Yes.
Second question is, can the second Snow Leopard boot be on a partition?
Yes.
Note that Spotlight will reindex the drives each time you change OSes unless they're excluded in System Preferences.
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Font not working after loading snow leopard.

My font named Smash is not working after loading snow leopard. Is there any way to fix this?

I suspect you're talking about a free font called Smash. Read Kurt Lang's paper on font management
<http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html>
and especially his strictures on free Windows fonts. The free Smash is a good example of what his talking about. It's a bad, poorly made font. Trash it ASAP.
If you want to check it with Font Book, use File > Validate File…, then locate smash.ttf and proceed. You cannot use File > Valide Font, because that command works only with installed, 'working' fonts.
For the real font, go to
<http://www.cool-fonts.com/>

Firefox 36.15 not saving history on Snow Leopard

Firefox 36.15 not saving history on Snow Leopard. When I go to show all history nothing is saved, settings in preferences is remembering history

This can be a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox

Time Machine Not Recognized After Clean Snow Leopard Install

I've searched for this particular question.
I was unhappy with Snow Leopard dragging. I wanted a clean install. I did not have the original snow leopard installation for my computer, so I got a different snow leopard DVD. This has apparently caused problems with time machine.
The clean install in complete. I am now ready to migrate my Time Machine backup onto my iMac24". However, Time Machine is not recognized--at least not in the way I want.
When I plug my time machine HD into the USB, snow leopard asks if I want to use this for future back-ups. I decline, because I specifically want to restore what has already been backed up. The HD is visible as an external device--and I can in fact see the raw data of my time machine backup stored in folders.
However, when I enter migration assistant, time machine is invisible. On the page where I am expecting to select time machine, I instead get a perpetually spinning circle icon.
I suspect time machine is "linked" to the prior snow leopard operating system, rather than to the computer ID. Obviously, this is a bit of a mistake on my part. However, I'm already into the breech and I've got no choice but to go forward.
Please advise how to redirect my time machine to its new master (same computer, different snow leopard registration)?
Thanks so very much.

Retail disk? Yes, it was the snow leopard CD.
I used a single license snow snow leopard CD install the first time around, when snow leopard was first released. At at that time I "upgraded" my system from leopard.
This time, I used a different physical disk with snow leopard with a family license. This time I did a "clean" install in which I first erased my hard drive using disk utilities.
There were no problems with the installation.
As I say, my time machine hard drive is "recognized" by the computer as an external drive. It just is not recognized when I utilize the migration assistant. It is also "recognized" as a time machine, but only as a potential time machine for prospective use to update going forward, whereas I want it to open up as a time machine for my iMac that I just wiped clean yesterday.
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Macbook Pro Will Not Boot to Retail Snow Leopard

I am a PC tech working on a Macboo Pro mid-2010 15" aka MacbookPro6,2 for an acquaintance (really) and I really appreciate any help/tips on this. As given to me, the MBP was totally non-responsive. Also, the owner does not have the original DVDs that came with the machine nor did she have the power adapter (long story).
Here is the summary: The MBP will not boot to a retail Snow Leopard 10.6.3 DVD; it only gets to the light grey screen with the darker grey Apple symbol and no spinning gear.
Here are the details:
1. After procuring a new AC adapter and installing a new battery, it would boot up and run but displayed an error with Steam startup. It connected to the internet via wifi, launched and ran a video dvd, etc, etc. Looked good except for the Steam error screen.
2. I went to the Steam website and downloaded the current version. After the software installed I did a normal shutdown and restart and the MBP would not boot, just went to grey Apple screen and spinning gear.
3. Booted up in single user, ran fsck -fy which reported "Invalid node structure (4, 24755)" which I understand is not good and it also reported that "The volume Untitled could not be repaired". Just on a whim I ran the fsck a couple more times not expecting anything different and that's what I got - nothing different.
4. Power up with Command R. Goes to grey screen and then tries to boot off of the bad hard drive with previous results.
5. Talked to Apple Care. To make it short, they sold me a retail Snow Leopard.
6. Installed a new blank hard drive (500GB, SATA II, WD Blue) and loaded the Snow Leopard into the Superdrive.
7. Power up and press C. Just goes to grey screen and grey Apple.
8. Power up with Option. DVD is there, click on it to launch, goes to grey Apple and that's all it does.
9. Just for grins, I popped in a Windows 7 Recovery DVD and did the power up/option to launch that and the MBP actually loads the Windows files and screen but it will not proceed because Win7 recovery doesn't recognize the MBP. At least the DVD worked.
10. Installed a different new blank hard drive and tried to launch Snow Leopard install but no dice.
11. Just for grins number two, I tried a remote install on my local network. On initial DVD access, the MBP displays a spinning globe along with the grey Apple, accesses the DVD on the remote laptop three times, but then the spinning globe disappears and everything stops. I left it for an hour and nothing else happens.
That is where I am stuck. I really appreciate any ideas on how to proceed. I can hear Genius Bar already, but was just wondering if I missed any possible steps to take myself.

You should have better luck with the correct build, as you can't use the installs as backward compatible. I also have an older machine that is for the kids, and was upgraded with the 10.6.3 retail disk which will not work with the Mid 2010.
Best of luck, and hope it helps.
If no luck, you may want to investigate hardware issues, as it should boot and install.
SJP

FCP Studio will not boot up after Snow leopard upgrade.

Everything was working fine on Leopard but decided to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Now the program stats up and we get to the splash screen then it quits. Anybody help me? so far Snow Leopard has been a complete waste of time, After effects on Mac will not work now either.

They all work except FCP 6 and After effects cs3. FCP is my main worry. I have a deadline to finish.

Can I dual boot Mavericks and Snow Leopard?

Hello. I own a 2011 i5 iMac. I recently started working with some softwares that will only work properly on Snow Leopard, but I have Mavericks installed. My question is: can I create a new partition in my HD and use BootCamp to install Snow Leopard?

If it is a Late 2011 model, then you cannot. The earlier models came with a special version of Snow Leopard on DVDs. You can install only that version of Snow Leopard. If you've lost those discs, then you are out of luck.
You do not use Boot Camp for this. Rather, you will use Disk Utility.
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.

Make dual boot Lion and Snow Leopard Mac ???

I have a SSD for my MBP. I formatted it with two partitions and installed snow leopard on each. I also have a 400 GB HDD that has snow leopard on it. I'd like to trade out my optical drive for the SSD. I'd like to update one SSD partition to Lion, then use the software and data files from the HDD for both snow leopard and Lion. That way I hope to still use the snow leopard software that is not compatible with Lion (I still have some legacy PPC programs) and have the benefit of new Lion only software.
Can I do this? If so what do I have to do? Any resources with HOW-TO for this sort of thing??
2009 MBP with 10.6.8

Do you have any tips for making your home folder stay on the HDD and still get the files I need on each SDD partition?
I assume you are talking about application-specific data like preferences. Most stuff is kept in your home dir. You really have to know which apps are exceptions that put stuff in /Library and other boot disk related places (e.g., kexts). I always keep careful records of what goes where from anything I add to my system so I know how to handle this. Generally though I suppose Migration Assistant helps most users (I never used it).
One scheme you might do is simply ignore the problems until they occur on a app-by-app-basis. If you run from one of the boots and something you use needs a kext or registration because its not on your common home dir, then install as needed or reregister as needed. Preferences can easily be respecified (or dragged from a backup if you know what to look for and where).
Most of your stuff in your home dir will run as it did before if the stuff doesn't use any boot directories. But as I said in my first post there is that risk that some apple-specific data bases might have changed going from Snow Leopard to Lion like those Mail and Address Book examples. No way of know that until you try. Hence the emphasis on backups.
If there are some user-specific data that has changed between Snow Leopard and Lion (say, it's Mail or Address Book) then this whole common-home-for-both-snow-leopard-and-lion scheme needs to be rethought. As I said earlier, it has always worked within a single OS family and I don't recall even having any problems up to Snow Leopard. But the jury is still out on Snow Leopard to Lion.
With respect to applications you want to put on the SSD, that's your choice. What do you use the most and launch most often? Put them on your SSD if you wish. Thinking out loud -- maybe consider a relatively small third partition for these apps on the SSD. It would appear as just another mounted volume on your desktop and then you would have only a single instance of those apps for both boots. Most apps don't need to be in /Applications. Those that do of course would have to have two instances, one for each boot.

Why is the startup volume invisible when booting MBP from Snow leopard disk?

I loaded Snow Leopard onto a new harddrive. It boots and operates my MBP (April 2009) just fine but the drive icon does not show on the desktop. What gives?

Hard drives don't show up automatically in Desktop, so you have to turn it on. Go to Finder menu > Preferences > General, and tick "Hard disks", so your hard disk will appear in the Desktop. You can do the same with external disks, DVDs, iPods, etc.

Booting from a Snow Leopard Retail dvd

I have a 2009 iMac that came with Leopard installed. I later purchase the retail Snow Leopard disc with I believe 10.6.3.
I want to reformat my iMac HD and reinstall a fresh copy of Snow Leopard so I can move my Mac Pro data over to it, but it doesn't load the Snow Leopard disc when I reboot and hold the Option key.
I've upgraded to 10.6.8 and was wondering if that was the problem. I have used the original Leopard Install discs to check the drive and corrected a few errors with one pass. Should the iMac be able to boot from the SL disc? Not being able to read the dvd, I can't even attempt a .dmg image to mount, even if I knew how. I've read numerous posts with other users not being able to boot from the SL retail disc.
Would I have the same issues if I purchase a new Snow Leopard Install dvd?

Unlike Windows, the DVD or CD versions of the Mac OS (Snow Leopard or earlier) have no serial number, or even keep track of how many times you've installed it. It's all on the honor system of following the license you have, which as mende1 noted, is either a single computer license, or five in one household (not shared with friends or relatives).
Lion and Mountain Lion are a bit different. Macs that came with either OS have a machine specific version (for the necessary hardware drivers) and cannot be shared, other than with a 100% identical Mac. The App Store versions are intended for Macs that were released before the respective OS's, and contain only the hardware drivers for the Mac models they are listed to support.

Problems with Booting from the Snow Leopard Install Disc

I need to do a reformat of my iMac drive and reinsall Snow Leopard. Then I want to run System Migration and move the contents of my Mac Pro (running Snow Leopard) over to the iMac.
I placed the retail Snow Leopard installation disc and held the "C" key down during restart. My optical drive make a bit of random noise and eventually ejects the SL disc. I've tried a CD, movie dvd and another software program installation disc and none of them seem to be able to be read. I've sold the Mac Pro and am in a bit of a bind as I need to get this done and shipped out. I'm also going to have to wipe the Mac Pro drives clean and do a reinstall of Snow Leopard.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
John

Do you have the original install discs that came with the computer?
If you do, try powering up the mac pushing in the disc and hold the OPTION key, which will bring up the start up manager, select the insrall disc to boot from.
After booting, select the language, on the next page go to the menu bar and select Utilities/disk utilities, select your volume (default name is Macintosh HD, or what ever you ma have named it) First aid tab, run verify disk.
If it comes up with errors (they will be in red font) click repair disk. Rerun this till it it comes up with "this disk seems OK i(n green font)
Then quit the installer and eject the disk.
Try the Snow Leopard disk using the same proceedure (power up, push in disk, holding the OPTION key) to boot to the start up manager, and select the SL disk, and do a clean install.
Make sure that you have a retail install disk (white SL on it)
You can try this from the retail SL disc, if you do not have the Original disc(s) you should include all of them to the person you seel/give it to.
After install, follow these instructions.
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Hope this helps

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