Just as a follow up to my previous post, I was having trouble switching back into Mac OS X once booted into Vista. As part of the Boot Camp process, Apple allow you to burn a CD containing the Windows XP Drivers and Utilities. Included is a handy utility to select the default Startup Disk. Using various tools, I was able to extract the Control Panel extension and install it into Vista. However, I was unable to get this to work - even when elevated to Administrator - it would always complain about not being able to get Administrative rights. Reading around the problem a little I think this may be either a Vista security thing or a driver thing (probably the former). I think pn XP the utility somehow manages to write a variable into the EFI telling it which boot partition to use - whatever mechanism is trys seems to not be working on my installation - but they again I may have just installed it wrong in my attempt to hack around BootCamps "Drivers for XP" installation program that really doesn't work on Vista.
The alternative is to press the (alt) Option key on startup. However, I have a cheap Belkin KVM that I'm running this through and it didn't seem to work (think it is something to do with the USB keyboard detection). Thankfully, this tip came to my rescue, by holding the menu key of my Mac Mini's Apple Remote I got the bootloader screen allowing me to select my OS X partition - nice. Then I booted straight back into Vista, because I really am loving it :-)
Hi!
I have also installed vista successfully on my Mac mini. But there still is one annoying problem, the Intel 950 driver. Using the Microsoft driver it works well, but sometimes the computer goes blue screen. Using the latest Intel driver I get some really annoying flicker while moving windows and watching a movie at the same time. The intel driver also go blue screen sometimes.
Would be great to know if you have had any blue screens and how much ram you have installed (since vista allocates up to 256mb video ram).
Johan
Hey Johan,
I haven't had a single blue screen of death yet. I used the standard drivers that got installed with Vista and haven't but any others on. The machine does have 2Gb Ram installed though which may explain our different experiences. Also,I made sure I had the latest version of the firmware and the latest version of BootCamp that I could get my hands on.
I'll take a look in more detail and let you know if I find anything else (or if I get a BSOD).
Martin.
Did you guys do a clean install on bootcamp? has anyone tried to upgrade an xp pro installation to home premium or ultimate?
Yup - did a clean install and I have done for all my Vista migrations even on more standard hardware. The upgrades of old scared me off doing one as it tends to leave lots of old stuff in the registry etc - I took the opportunity of a new OS to clean out my system with fresh software.
I've heard people doing the upgrade to Vista and it has gone ok, but something I have never tried personally.