Q: BOOTCAMP ERROR MESSAGE: NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY

If you plug-in your USB when OSX is up, and look under About This Mac -> System Report -> USB, does your USB show under Superspeed bus or High-speed bus?

Can you find a USB drive that shows up under High-speed and use it?

You are correct. There are no SD Card driver support in W7.

karffe wrote:

 

after reboot do not continue the process and i figured out with restart mac and hold option key... then i select the windows installation disc and begining in the installation this way... very weird but ok...

This step is supposed to be automatic, because the Mac NVRAM is modified by BCA.

there is next some weird thing... Bootcamp create partition for windows with FAT 32 format and into it can not be windows installed...

Ok this i figured out too and manualy i formated disc partition in windows installation into NTFS...

The Apple NTFS driver is a readonly driver (by default), so it cannot create a native NTFS partition natively. The Windows installer converts the FAT32 partition to NTFS before it starts the installation. This is normal.

 

after all has been installed and i run for rirst time after all reboots... (many many...) i have problem with usb driver which do not makes me use the keyboard nad mouse...

The Windows installer does not have USB3 drivers. On certain Macs, it presents a problem using the internal keyboard/mouse. A wired USB KM is always helpful.

 

This do not looks like eassy process... everything is in MAC OSX weird.... time to swap---->windows looks like great way

Most of the issues are related to the environment, or configuration of the underlying hardware/disks.

Good to see it finally work.

Hi there,

so i've got the same problem and all in this post didn't work for me. I have a 21.5 iMac mid 2010, with a selfmade FusionDrive (2TB Harddrive and 250GB SSD with OSX 10.10.1 running) and an USB HP-BluRay Player. Bootcamp did the partition on the FusionDrive, an original Windows CD was in the USB Drive. After restart i got the error message "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY"

I've searched google but quiet found nothing what could helped me. I tryed to activate the Bootcamp partition and now i got a black window with a blinking cursor...

Hope something of the following could help:

diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         249.7 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         1.8 TB     disk1s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s3

   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                214.0 GB   disk1s4

/dev/disk2

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS MacIntoshFusionDrive   *2.0 TB     disk2

                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2

                                 93BF1194-6B71-4740-9719-679F573605DD

                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive

diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group E773FDA5-8108-440C-B413-CBC5DCF2CFB2

    =========================================================

    Name:         FusionDrive

    Status:       Online

    Size:         2035254362112 B (2.0 TB)

    Free Space:   57344 B (57.3 KB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume 5A7D5036-F6A9-404D-9D14-E21A1B32B174

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    0

    |   Disk:     disk0s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     249715376128 B (249.7 GB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume AA1CB138-9C39-4026-9231-B6D27C59B156

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    1

    |   Disk:     disk1s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     1785538985984 B (1.8 TB)

    |

    +-> Logical Volume Family C1EB31B0-1F88-4DBF-A038-EB30BD7F55FB

        ----------------------------------------------------------

        Encryption Status:       Unlocked

        Encryption Type:         None

        Conversion Status:       NoConversion

        Conversion Direction:    -none-

        Has Encrypted Extents:   No

        Fully Secure:            No

        Passphrase Required:     No

        |

        +-> Logical Volume 93BF1194-6B71-4740-9719-679F573605DD

            ---------------------------------------------------

            Disk:                  disk2

            Status:                Online

            Size (Total):          2028694274048 B (2.0 TB)

            Conversion Progress:   -none-

            Revertible:            No

            LV Name:               MacIntoshFusionDrive

            Volume Name:           MacIntoshFusionDrive

            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168

gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 488397167

      start       size  index  contents

          0          1         PMBR

          1          1         Pri GPT header

          2         32         Pri GPT table

         34          6        

         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

     409640  487725344      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  488134984     262144      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  488397128          7        

  488397135         32         Sec GPT table

  488397167          1         Sec GPT header

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=2000398934016; sectorsize=512; blocks=3907029168

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 3907029167

       start        size  index  contents

           0           1         MBR

           1           1         Pri GPT header

           2          32         Pri GPT table

          34           6        

          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

      409640  3487380832      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  3487790472     1269760      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  3489060232         632        

  3489060864   417966080      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  3907026944        2191        

  3907029135          32         Sec GPT table

  3907029167           1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending

#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  488397167] <Unknown ID>

2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1    geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending

#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AC 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 - 3487380832] <Unknown ID>

3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [3487790472 -    1269760] Darwin Boot

*4: 0B 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [3489060864 -  417966080] Win95 FAT-32

Hope someone could help me :-)

1. If you iMac has an internal Optical drive, you should use it. BC will not set the booting from an external Optical drive.

2. Are you trying to install Windows or repair it?

1. I haven't an internal OD, because i removed it for the SSD. The external booting from the USB OD starts, because i see it in the startup manager

2. I only have an empty bootcamp partition, want to install windows

My iMac couldn't find a bootable partition. That's the reason i set the WIN95 - FAT32 partition active. Now i got an black screen with a blinking cursor. Bevor i set the WIN95 - FAT32 partition active, i got the error message NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY

GMF-Berlin wrote:

 

1. I haven't an internal OD, because i removed it for the SSD. The external booting from the USB OD starts, because i see it in the startup manager

BCA uses the iMac Model Identifier to set the boot device to be the path of the internal optical drive, irrespective of whether it actually exists or not.

 

My iMac couldn't find a bootable partition. That's the reason i set the WIN95 - FAT32 partition active. Now i got an black screen with a blinking cursor. Bevor i set the WIN95 - FAT32 partition active, i got the error message NO BOOTABLE DEVICE - INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY

With this setting, it expects the Win95-FAT32 partition to have a boot block, but it does not have one. This is also the reason for the blinking cursor, and it will eventually time out or sit there and not do anything.

So, what should i do?

In other google search results, i tried to manipulate bc that it could make a bootable usb, but the usb drive didn't show in the startup manager and didn't start the installation of windows... nothings changed and i can't install windows on a bc partition!!!

Modifying the BC info.plist will let you create a USB, but the problem is that BCA option of 'Install Windows...' is used, it expects the internal Optical drive to be functional and sets the boot arguments in nvram to point to the Optical drive path. There is no way to change it, since it is used only for the duration of the installation and is removed once the Windows installation is complete.