Installing/using Arch linux in Parallels on Mac OS X Lion MBP Retina

I am having a problem where I can't install or use Arch Linux as the same error always crops up at some point or another.
loading user-specifide modules [busy]
pc_ich: RCBA is disabled by hardware/BIOS, device disabled
pc_ich [some random numbers]: I/O space for GPIO uninitialized
BUG: soft lockup -- CPU#0 stuck for 22s [kworker/u:0:5]
Thanks for any ideas.

I am pretty sure that Linux has some known serious issues with thre retina Macbook as well as some of the new Airs.
See this thread, it may help: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144255&p=1
Edit: Sorry i didn't read the "Parallels" in the title.  Though I am not familiar with parallels, so I am not sure what kind of system it is actually trying to emulate.  What happens if you use something else like virtualbox or some other free virtual machine software.
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2012-09-27 03:18:07)

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