Q: Enable Bootcamp to install from usb for OSX 10.9**WORKS**

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. THANKS. A GReat FIX. Spent all evening with Apple tech skirting around the fact that my MBP Early 2011 (with Optical drive, I had installed a second SSD) hardware has been modified so that's why I was missing the option to "Create Windows Installer". Found this thread and I almost screamed my head off when I ran Boot Camp and Voilaaaaaa, "create windows installer became available. Thanks man. I would pay for this If I could, LOL. 

This worked in Yosemite. Thanks!!

How did you get this to work on Yosemite? I thought the plist hack only worked for OS X Mavericks. I have Yosemite and the Bootcamp Assistant keeps crashing with these edits.

If it's crashing somethong was done wrong when you swap out the plist file you have to sudo comand it and authorize it or it will crash im going to repost what I posted 4 posts ago make sure you follow it to the T

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hey i just figured out at least to get the usb function. the problem i had was the initial instructions changing the .plist file its very vague on how to do it but what i did was where is has

<key>DARequiredROMVersions</key>

  <array>

i added mine from about my mac <string>MBP81.0047.B04</string> looks like that then under the pre usb

<key>USBBootSupportedModels</key>

  <array>

i got rid of the pre and under array i added <string>MacBookPro8,1</string> make sure it looks the same as the rest with the coma etc don't  do it like this <string>MBP81</string> this wouldn't work for me once its done save it then insert it into the contents folder authenticate it etc go into terminal and make sure you type sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app and type your password this should allow the code change this is what i did just to get the box i will find out if i can even use the usb function or not.

obviously make sure you get your boot info from the about this mac etc and insert it where i had mine

Tom

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Pretty sure I have all of this to a T. I don't see anything out of place - do you?

I'm getting the same weird messages in Terminal that a few others were getting: code object was not signed at all

Any idea?

Did you go into bootcamp package contents and change the plist file it won't let you change it so you need to copy it your desktop and then change it with same name etc like i saw you did and then put it back into contents make sure you saved original so you can always go back. when you go and put it into the contents folder it should require authentication etc and then say you want to replace whats there then try again the sudo command

let me know if this helps

and if not try and put back to original and see if it crashes and let me know

Thanks for the help.

I havn't had to move the plist file or anything - it's been saving the changes successfully just wont let bootcamp assistant work. Last time I tried the sudo command it prompted me to install "xcode" from the app store with this message:

Not sure what that means...

*Also I can delete those lines and add the "Pre" back which i've done a time or two and BootCamp Assistant works again but no create install option obviously.

yes you need to install that first once installed redo the sudo command also I don't think it lets you save your alterations copy the plist to your desktop alter it there save it to desktop then put it back and authenticate it and replace existing then do the sudo command i just did this to make sure i have everything i told you correctly to a 2012 iMac i deleted some info in the plist and put it back and of corse without the sudo it crashed i then copied and pasted exactly what i typed and it allowed boot camp to work i know for a fact you need to download what it said cause i had to do that to my 2011 mbp

but click install button don't click the get button

Tom

That's it! Like you said - who knows how the rest of the Windows install will go but at least i've gotten through this.

I didn't need to do any moving to the file - it let me change it right there in the folder but the xcode was needed for the sudo command to work.

Marvelous. I'll keep updating if I have any problems or solutions to contribute.

Thanks again.

Good glad I was able to help and since I did this already I will tell you after you make the usb you can't use it on your 2011 Mbp it's firmware doesn't allow you too boot from usb you need to use a dvd I was reading some places that holding C when you get to boot screen with usb but haven't tried it I gave up and used a dcd lol but also when you partition your drive make enough space cause windows uses about 40gb at least the one I instaled did and ypi can't repartition it you have to redo the whole install over to make the partition bigger well good luck to you

Tom

Yeah I was able to get through part of the initial Windows setup process after using the BOOT EFI but I have the same problem many have been having with the GTP / MRB issue. Not sure if the disc install circumvents that or not.

This was someone's post a couple pages back which is exactly what I'm seeing:

can you help me with this ?

i got an error msg saying that :- windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has a MBR partition table. in EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

how do i convert GPT disk to MBR ?

Download GPT Fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/) and see How can i remove a hybrid mbr from my system drive so that Efi booted windows will install. as reference.

Hey thanks Loner T

I gave it a try but no change.

I'm not knowledgable enough to know what I'm doing entering those commands but I followed his instructions and terminal looked like this:

I've created and deleted that 55gb partition so many times between bootcamp and disk utility i'm not sure at what stage it's best to perform these commands. I ended up doing this stuff in terminal when the rest of the partition my primary OS is on was empty and I created the boot camp partition afterwards with disk utility and made it ms-dos FAT. Not that I think that matters. Whenever I reach the partitions point setting up windows I try reformatting that partition, deleting it, and creating a new one right there but the warning sign never goes away and the next button never lights up.

I'll investigate more tomorrow.

The 55GB partition is your OSX partition (AF00 partition code). If you let BCA partition your disk it will always create a Hybrid MBR style partition scheme, which is a GPT and MBR combination. If you run sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 ( or diskN where N is listed via diskutil list command) and see a single entry, then you do not have a MBR on that disk. It has only a single protective MBR. You currently have EFI, OSX and Recovery HD which is the standard configuration of OSX after Snow Leopard (10.6).

If you want to use EFI boot for W8+, then use Disk Utility to create a Free Space chunk of the size you want, which will get split into an MSR (128MB) and a MSD (remainder of the size) partition. MSD will be formatted by the Windows installer as NTFS. EFI boot and BCA do not mix together.

I followed everything in the first post by "BITTe". Then did the "sudo" command shown in no. 4. At first I got the errors but I forgot to do the sudo command. When I did that, it was ok.

I've seen in some forums they say just use the first part of your boot rom version but i copied the whole thing. Don't forget to remove the "pre" before "USBBoot"

I'm using a Late 2008 Macbook Pro with no dvd drive (hard drive caddy now).