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

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.

sorry when i bother you, but i wanna understand.

after bc create the bootcamp partition it restarts the mac. that failed cause the usb od start windows in efi mode (can see it in the startup manager)

so after reboot, i hold option/alt and could see at the startup my osx. if i put the windows installation dvd in the usb od, i see windows and windows efi. i click on windows and the drive starts. after a moment i get a black screen with the blinking cursor and nothing happens for a while.

why is the windows installation dvd with option/alt key at startup on my usb optical drive visible? the usb drive from the modified bc info.plist didn't show up in the startup with the option/alt key.

right now i'm really frustated an confused