Jeff Foster reported that the new Leopard Boot Camp has not fixed some issues with Nvidia graphics in Windows Vista:

I ran out to get Leopard hoping the non-beta version of the Boot Camp Windows drivers for my MacBook Pro (NVidia graphics card) would have the correct drivers for an external Cinema Display, but still Apple's failed to support even their own hardware on Windows. The display control panel shows it's connected, but 1024X768 is the highest it will go, and the LED on the ACD just flashes every once in a while to indicate it can't use the input. I was able to make the ACD work with random inf files I'd found in forums, but they killed DirectX or some other video functionality, as all videos in any player would just be a black screen.

Also, in every version of Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro, Vista never seems to know whether it's plugged in to power or not-it indicates that it's running off battery after a while, which depending on your power settings can send it to sleep even though it's really plugged in. Works fine when booted to OSX (as does the external Cinema Display, incidentally).

Did the Leopard fix your Boot Camp display problem with Vista?

Michael Politi reports a problem with Leopard Boot Camp, where the Windows display settings don't stick after rebooting Windows:

I am having a problem using my Apple 23" Cinema Display when rebooting my MacBook Pro. It works well, but I must reset the Windows Nvidia Control Panel display configuration to Clone every time I reboot the machine?

I am using the following system:

MacBook Pro 17" 2.4 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Windows XP Professional in BootCamp with Leopard

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Ole Nils Feddersen in Germany reported success with the NVidia display drivers for Windows that Apple recently posted at its web site for use in Boot Camp. He said:

I tested the new display Driver of NVidia for Boot Camp and it works. My 23" Cinema works fine in 1920 x 1200 pixels (Boot Camp + Vista + MacBook Pro 15").

Previously, a number of readers reported problems with Boot Camp and the NVidia graphics hardware in some Mac. These are some of the problem reports that these drivers should address:

• Leopard's Boot Camp still hasn't fixed Vista Cinema Display problem
• Reports of Boot Camp 1.4 update disabling NVidia Vista driver
• Boot Camp screen goes blank during games
• External Display (dual display) problems with Boot Camp

If you've tried these drivers how it works for you.

Readers continue to report Boot Camp FAT partitions not appearing when you startup with the Option key down, and the possibly related issue of the Mac's clock being reset.

Graham Ellison, of Belfast, Northern Ireland, describes the startup bug:

I have the problem, too, where the XP icon does not appear at startup when using Boot Camp. I formatted the Windows partition as FAT32, 15GB. The only way I can select to boot into Windows is through the startup drives icon in preferences. The machine is a new MacBook SR, running Leopard with latest update.

James Dwyer, who previously reported the FAT problem, has a theory as to why the time resetting isn't always seen:

Another addition to my report, if of interest: I have now also seen the date on Mac OS being reset by the Boot Camp process. I think this has only happened once to me, but it could be that the Apple time server corrected problems before I noted them earlier. This "self healing" may not have happened this one time because I now require a password on my WiFi network (see below).

Another novelty is that Mac OS no longer seems to remember the password to my wireless set-up via Airport, but Windows does!

I have increased RAM on my machine and expect to use Parallels with the Boot Camp machine, so my problems will probably change now. 4GB memory does, in any case, make a huge difference in the performance of Parallels.

Jeff reports:

I am experiencing the same problem. No Windows startup disk icon when holding down Option on a new Santa Rosa MacBook (installed XP SP2). I cannot confirm the clock bug yet.

Bob Estes reports that he and others are experience kernel panics with the Leopard 10.5.2 Boot Camp during partitioning:

I encountered a major problem when attempting to create a Windows partition with Boot Camp Assistant on my MacBook Pro 15" 2 GHz. I have since discovered that others have reported the same or similar problems in the Apple discussion forum on Boot Camp Installation. So far no solution has been posted.

The problem is that a kernel panic occurs during the attempted partitioning. Upon rebooting, one discovers that the portion of the hard drive that was supposed to have been allocated to the Windows partition has been subtracted from the available storage on the hard drive, but there is no sign of a partition. Apple Care was not helpful and could only suggest erasing the hard drive and reinstalling.

Fortunately, I checked the Apple discussions before taking such a drastic step and found that several others had encountered the same problem but that booting from the system install disk and running Disk Utility to repair the disk would restore the missing gigabytes. This did indeed work.

It appears to be a 10.5.2 problem. Almost all of those reporting the problem had MacBooks of some type, but there were a couple of exceptions. Maybe it's a matter of available space on the hard drive and the laptops are likely to have less. There were no cases of anyone actually succeeding with the partitioning once they had encountered the problem, though several evidently repeated the experiment more than once.

A number of readers have verified our report on Monday of the Mac OS X kernel panics (crashing) while using Boot Camp Assistant to partition a hard drive. The problem seems to have started with the 10.5.2 update.

Bob Estes, who reported the problem on Monday, has found a way to stop the kernel panics:

There is a workaround. After your hard drive has been thoroughly defragmented (I used iDefrag) Boot Camp can do the partitioning. Alternatively, you can totally erase your drive and restore before partitioning, which is probably just another way of defragmenting.

if this works for you.

Meanwhile, Eric Weeks verified the issue:

I'm having the same problem on an aluminum 24" iMac. I see consistent kernel panics well into making a partition with Boot Camp Assistant. I've repeated it three times in a row now (and I'm done). Must reboot via Leopard disk to do a Disk Utility repair to restore missing megabytes. I've tried this with different sizes (32 GB and 21 GB), to no avail. Running 10.5.2.

Patrick Taylor:

I have the kernel panics with 10.5.2 during Boot Camp partitioning. MacBook 2GHz, 2 GB ram, 160GB drive. I was trying to use Boot Camp setup to partition 20Gb for Windows.

Phil W:

I have had the same problem with the Leopard 10.5.2 update, the Boot Camp partition failed.

Two more readers report on the Boot Camp problem that started with the Leopard 10.5.2 update, where the Mac crashes with a kernel panic while partitioning the hard drive with Boot Camp Assistant.

Stefano Ponti had the problem while trying to remove the partition:

With Leopard 10.5.2, I've encounter a problem when I try to uninstall Windows, using Boot Camp to remove the Windows partition. Boot Camp had a crash, and I needed to force exit from it. After I looked at the info of my Mac hard drive (because the Win HD icon had disappeared) the Windows space was not recovered. The only thing I could do was initialize the hard drive and completely reinstall Leopard.

Johnathon Smith also ran into the problem while removing the partition:

While trying to reinstall Boot Camp after I purposefully removed the partition, I would often get kernel panics. This left my disk damaged because the space was lost. I had to run disk repair from a separate partition on an external drive. Eventually I just wiped the drive and under fresh conditions there weren't any problems. This happened almost immediately after the 10.5.2 update.

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Gary Bartos has success with last week's suggestion to fix Leopard 10.5.2 Boot Camp kernel panics when attempting to create a partition. Bartos added some detail to last week's report:

After encountering the Boot Camp Assistant kernel panic problem described on your page Boot Camp in Leopard Tips and Reports, I followed the method described by Bob Estes:

1. Download and pay for the full version of iDefrag from Coriolis ($35 and worth it).
2. Create a bootable CD using Coriolis CDMaker.
3. Reboot from CD, then click "Go" in iDefrag using default settings.
4. Reboot from hard disk.
5. Run Boot Camp Assistant again, this time successfully. Win XP also installed successfully for me.

Many, MANY thanks both to Bob Estes and to your site for posting his comments.

Gary Moran described the problem:

I had the same problem yesterday. I attempted to use Boot Camp to partition my hard drive, to create a 5 GB partition for Ubuntu Linux. When I re-started it, I had 5 GB less space but no second volume.

Matt Towers verified the iDegrag workaround for the problem of Mac OS X kernel panics while using Boot Camp Assistant to partition a hard drive. He reported:

The iDefrag workaround did the trick for me. I tried doing a quick (online) defrag first but it did not solve the problem. Booting from an iDfrag disk and doing a full defrag was the solution. This workaround was a huge help.

Readers have contributed two more suggestions for getting around kernel panics in Leopard 10.5.2 when using Boot Camp to partition a hard drive. A previous suggestion, defragmenting the hard drive, has been verified by several readers.

Timo Jääskeläinen suggests booting from the installer DVD to do the partioning:

I have had the same problem with partitioning for boot camp on 10.5.2 as you described on macwindows.com on Feb 18.

I was able to overcome this problem by booting from my Leopard installation DVD (which is 10.5.0), and doing partitioning from there and it went fine without kernel panics. No need to download/pay for additional software.

Shawn Hart suggested using Time Machine to roll back to 10.5.1:

I have experienced the problem with 10.5.2 and boot camp partitioning. I'm running a MacBook pro 15 inch on 2.2 GHz processor. I have not been able to be it to work. But a friend said he used Time Machine to go back to 10.5.1 and it worked.

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Srinivasan found that the Leopard 10.5.2 kernel panics with Boot Camp partitioning didn’t occur with smaller partition:

I ran into the same issue with kernel panics: I was trying to get a 15 GB FAT32 chunk. I was on the verge of giving up, but since an earlier attempt to partition the my 120 GB MacBook HD running Leopard to get a 12GB partition for Windows was successful, I gave it a shot again, and it worked. Maybe with smaller partition sizes, the kernel doesn't panic. It worked for me.

Patrick Zirngast was having the problem of kernel panics with Leopard 10.5.2 while using Boot Camp Assistant to partition his drive. He tried two fixes listed on our Boot Camp Tips and Reports page. He no longer has kernel panics, but is still having problems:

I tried to fix the problem via the DVD Disk Utility; this solved the problem with hard disk, though Boot Camp would still not run the partitioning.

So I bought iDefrag and did a 5-hour defragmentation. I was then able to partition the disk; but when I tried to install Win XP SP2 my screen started to flicker on startup and the system stopped... That's the status so far.

As soon as I find some time, I will go back and reinstall everything from scratch.

David Humphrey is having a problem with a video driver in Windows Vista and Boot Camp:

I have a problem that happens in Vista Ultimate running on my 24" iMac, 2.4GHz, 4 GByte memory (purchased in November). When running Vista from Boot Camp, the video driver appears to crash on occasion. It can happen from as little as twice a week to three times a day (assuming my PC runs an average of 10 days per day). The screen goes blank, but the Mac doesn't shut off. To get out of the situation, I hold down the power switch for a long time (5-10 sec), which seems to shut off the machine. After that I switch power back on and get the screen that offers to start up Windows in safe mode, which I skip over.

Sometimes the screen goes blank, but the driver seems to catch itself and recover with a message like "The video driver just crashed but was able to restart".

Much more rarely I get a blue screen that doesn't stay displayed long. After that, Vista reboots by itself.

I have searched for an update to the driver in the device manager, but received a message saying that I already have the latest version.

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