#Access mac partition bootcamp how to
#Access mac partition bootcamp windows 10

You just had to select that partition in Parallels and away you went. Back in the day (when booting a physical linux partition like it was the bootcamp partition actually worked), it seems all the necessary boot files were on the root linux partition, probably in /boot/grub. I don't know that I can create an iso that will pull from both the EFI partition and the root directory this way.

The thing is, during installation, Ubuntu now places a small, initial boot loader on the EFI partition, a loader that seems to redirect to /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which does most of the heavy lifting. This tactic could be the solution if I can figure out the correct directories.

I then tried creating an iso of the grub environment within the Ubuntu partition (natively), as described in step two of this lifehacker post (but with customizations for my setup), then used that iso as the first boot option (mounted CD) in Parallels, but that didn't work.I think because I'm not using the correct directories to create the iso. It's just a matter of booting into a live OS from which you can launch gparted, like Ubuntu itself or PartedMagic, then changing the partition's bootflag to 'mcsftdata.' The partition will then show up in the drop down menu when selecting boot partitions in Parallels.

#Access mac partition bootcamp how to

I figured out how to change the typecode of my Linux/Ubuntu/ExtFS 4 partition. I've surmised the issue is with Parallels' generic BIOS versus the new Grub2 boot process, but I don't know how to nail down a work-around. I've gotten a little closer to booting my physical Ubuntu partition thru Parallels 13 on my Mac, but haven't the expertise to finalize the solution. Parallels only shows me partition 1 (disk0s1) and partition 5 (disk0s5) as you can see on the screenshot below.

I can't access to my partition 4 using: Add a Hard Disk -> Type: Boot Camp.

I can't import my VM from VMware otherwise I get the following error: 'To use a virtual machine with Boot Camp as its hard disk, create it using Parallels Desktop.'.

With VMware I just need to use the rawdiskCreator tool on my partition 4 then I can attach it to my VM as a pseudo-virtual disk. Partition 5 = NTFS partition with Windows 10įor Windows 10, I created my VM using the 'Use Windows from Boot Camp ' option so I can access to my partition 5 (NTFS/Win 10) from my VM and boot on it without any problem. Partition 4 = ext4 partition with Debian Linux Partition 1, 2 and 3 = Default partitions for EFI, OSX and OSX recovery

#Access mac partition bootcamp windows 10

I don't need to access to my virtual drives content from my host OS, I just need to access to an existing partition on my SSD from my Linux guest OS as I do with Windows 10 and my BootCamp partition.