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Boot Camp Won't Load after adding Mavericks

How things started

13" MacBook Air mid-2011

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b) with 256gb SSD

HDD partition between OS/X and a BOOTCAMP partition running Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate

I updated both OSes with the latest drivers.

In Lion, I did (disabled now) have v.9.5.2 of Paragon's NTFS driver installed (which I forgot about before I started down the path I'm on).


What I did:

After doing a time machine backup of Lion, I downloaded Mavericks. However, Disk Utility was reporting very little free space on OS/X. I ended up having to run Repair from the Recovery Partition. Once I did that OS/X and Windows were both booting fine and I had > 180 GB of free space on my OS/X partition.


I created a 48 GB partition as follows:


User uploaded file


I then installed Mavericks and got XCode, etc. installed. Today upon restarting I can't boot into Windows on Boot Camp.

First it didn't show up on the Start Up selector when holding down the Option key. I then started looking. I set Boot Camp as start up in the Paragon applet and this allowed it to boot into Boot Camp but then I get the ...


No bootable device --- insert boot disk and press any key


... error.


So I found the magic thread with Christopher Murphy's advice so I'm looking for help.


Here's the results of running the commands he has asked other to do:

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0


gpt show: disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752

gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751

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 323832816 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

324242456 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

325511992 92868000 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

418379992 1269544 5 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

419649536 70584320 6 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

490233856 863

490234719 32 Sec GPT table

490234751 1 Sec GPT header


sudo fdisk /dev/disk0


Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 490234751] <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

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide!

Cheers,

Brian

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Aug 1, 2013 11:38 AM

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Posted on Aug 1, 2013 12:07 PM

The TOU for this forum forbid discussion of unreleased products, take your issue to the private forums dedicated to Beta development.

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Aug 1, 2013 12:42 PM in response to BrianRandell

Just repost, this thread will linger and vanish eventually. I guess you are seeking the help of Chris Murphy for the Boot Camp issue, and for him to help he will need to be informed as to which OS you use. Do that discreetly, and accept that he may not be able to help as he may have no knowledge of the upcoming version.


(I feel the searchlights swinging in our direction) 🙂

Boot Camp Won't Load after adding Mavericks

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