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10.5: Boot Camp 2.0 and Answer files don't mix
Authored by: mike458 on Nov 07, '07 11:09:31PM
ok, this needs a better explanation. I ran into this exact same problem and it took a while to make sense of what was happening.

With Bootcamp and a retail XP install disk, you can proceed through your installation, formatting your XP partition with FAT32 or NTFS, performing the install and rebooting. Insert your Leopard disk, install the wndows hardware drivers from it and bootcamp is ready to go.

However, some IT departments set up windows XP to install automatically with predefined details using UNATTEND.TXT (the "Answer File" they talk about)

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/155197

If you have an XP disk that has been modified and it contains UNATTEND.TXT, you might skip the necessary prompts where you can format your partitions, and end up with the fat32 partition created by Leopard -- it's somewhat broken because it's not bootable. The windows installation will proceed, but when it finishes and tries to reboot, XP never comes up because the XP boot fails.


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