How to fix Boot Camp on Mac OS X if you just get a black screen with a blinking white cursor
So you’ve got a Mac and you’re hoping to install Windows on it, using Boot Camp.
You use the Boot Camp Assistant to create a disk partition to install Windows on. Then you pop your Windows CD in the disk drive, and tell your Mac to go ahead, boot up using the CD, and install Windows.
Except it doesn’t work.
You just get a black screen, with a blinking white cursor. And no matter how long you wait, nothing more happens. And if you try again, the same thing happens.
THE AMAZING FIX (THAT IS ALSO WHAT PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY TO TRY FOR EVERY TECHNICAL PROBLEM) (BUT IT NEVER WORKS) (EXCEPT IN THIS ONE AMAZING INSTANCE!!11!!1!)
No amount of restarting your computer will help. But if you actually UNPLUG the computer, leave it for 30 seconds, and THEN try, it works! That’s right, turning your computer off and on won’t do it. But pull the plug out the back and plug it back in, and you’re cookin’ with gas.
I couldn’t believe it either.
I guess if you’re using a laptop, the equivalent move is to take out the battery in addition to unplugging. Also know that this is isn’t the same problem as “the screen goes totally black, backlight included” which is something to do with graphics drivers & Vista, and hence beyond my ken.
