Q: no bootable device after running bca
Hello helpful apple people, after doing two days worth of research I have definitely hit a dead end and am unsure how to continue. I am attempting to bootcamp my 2008 white macbook (I know, she's a dinosaur but she's a good dinosaur okay) running on Lion with OS X 10.7.5 and so far everything has gone smoothly until I partitioned my drive and she restarted up. I get the "no bootable device" error. I'm attempting to boot from a usb stick, which was successfully used in bootcamp to create a bootable disk. I guess I've hit a snag somewhere else because the process was the same the 3 times I've tried to use bootcamp assistant to attempt to install windows 7. After some research I attempted to use unetbootin and refit to install, but that didn't work either. Considering bootcamp works so smoothly I don't know where the issue is. I've made sure my usb is formatted correctly, I cleaned free space and repaired my disk before partitioning, and then once the partition was successful...black screen and no luck, no bootable device. This is my first time trying to bootcamp my mac and the first time I've partitioned my drive. I saw in other forums that this might suggest the ISO I'm trying to use is bad, but I even downloaded a different ISO and had the same problem. Everything chugs along until it restarts in windows and can't boot up the install. I'm not very computer savvy but I've done what I can to look up this issue and try to resolve it and just can't seem to get anywhere now!
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on Apr 4, 2016 8:19 PM