Unable to boot from bootcamp to macosx snow leopard in bootcamp ctrl panel

Question

update to bootcamp 3.2 for win 32
winxp home sp2 bootcamp,
open bootcamp ctrl pnl> select macosx to reboot> press enter> dialogue to restart now?> yes
desktop freezes, i press ctrl alt del, .. nothing get the busy/working cursor
this happened on the last update also.
so i do a hard shutdown,
is there a patch to fix this / changing registry key / editing bootloader ?
tl;dr
trying to reboot from xp to macosx in BOOTCAMP CTRL PANEL (bootcamp 3.2)
ty,
-r

Answer 1

trying to reboot...in BOOTCAMP CTRL PANEL (bootcamp 3.2)
I've been noticing that Boot Camp 3 is a bit more finicky when rebooting back to OSX. I'm suspecting that the desired partition is not set correctly in the PRAM/NVRAM, so the Mac is looking for a non-existent partition to boot from. Nothing that happens consistently for me; happens maybe one out of every 40-50 reboots.
The workaround is instead of using the control panel in Windows to reboot to OSX, just shut down Windows as normal, then start the Mac holding down the Option key. OSX's Startup Disk System Preference seems to set the startup disk correctly, but Boot Camp's seems to have issues. Once I stopped using the control panel in Windows to reboot, I haven't had the hanging reboot issue so far. YMMV, but something to try that's different than what you're doing now.
...i'm getting stuck at bootcamp ctrl panel > choose which os to restart to, > i select macosx in the ctrl panel, after i click yes to restart it freezes after 20 secs and it stays that way for more than 10 mins, so i hard shutdown(holding down power button)
If my suspicion is correct and the contents of the PRAM/NVRAM are corrupt (i.e.: Boot Camp Control Panel not setting startup disk correctly,) you should to [reset the PRAM|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379].