I want to install win8.1 on my mac book pro but in the select task window install win 7 or later version is not active and only download driver is active which i have done before , what should i do ?
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Was Bootcamp Info.plist modified?
no i can't modify that cause it make bootcamp to crash when i add "MBP62" to "PreUSBBootSupportedModels"
i have MacBookPro6,2 with MBP61.0057.B0F as a boot rom version
this is my info.plist :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>32BitSupportedModels</key>
<array>
<string>MacBook7,1</string>
<string>MacBookAir5,2</string>
<string>MacBookPro10,1</string>
<string>MacPro5,1</string>
<string>Macmini5,3</string>
<string>iMac12,2</string>
</array>
<key>BuildMachineOSBuild</key>
<string>13D21</string>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.2, Copyright © 2014 Apple Inc. All rights reserved</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>DA</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.bootcampassistant</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>5.1.2</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>????</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>484</string>
<key>DARequiredROMVersions</key>
<array>
<string>IM41.0055.B08</string>
<string>IM42.0071.B03</string>
<string>IM51.0090.B03</string>
<string>IM52.0090.B03</string>
<string>IM61.0093.B01</string>
<string>MP11.005C.B04</string>
<string>MB11.0061.B03</string>
<string>MBP11.0055.B08</string>
<string>MBP12.0061.B03</string>
<string>MM11.0055.B08</string>
</array>
<key>DTCompiler</key>
<string>com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0</string>
<key>DTPlatformBuild</key>
<string>5A2053</string>
<key>DTPlatformVersion</key>
<string>GM</string>
<key>DTSDKBuild</key>
<string>13D21</string>
<key>DTSDKName</key>
<string></string>
<key>DTXcode</key>
<string>0501</string>
<key>DTXcodeBuild</key>
<string>5A2053</string>
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.utilities</string>
<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
<string>10.9.0</string>
<key>NSMainNibFile</key>
<string>MainMenu</string>
<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
<string>NSApplication</string>
<key>PreESDRequiredModels</key>
<array>
<string>MacBook7</string>
<string>MacBookAir5</string>
<string>MacBookPro10</string>
<string>MacPro5</string>
<string>Macmini6</string>
<string>iMac13</string>
</array>
<key>PreUEFIModels</key>
<array>
<string>MacBook7</string>
<string>MacBookAir5</string>
<string>MacBookPro10</string>
<string>MacPro5</string>
<string>Macmini6</string>
<string>iMac13</string>
</array>
<key>PreUSBBootSupportedModels</key>
<array>
<string>MacBook7,1</string>
<string>MacBookAir3,2</string>
<string>MacBookPro8,3</string>
<string>MacPro5,1</string>
<string>Macmini4,1</string>
<string>iMac12,2</string>
</array>
<key>Win7OnlyModels</key>
<array>
<string>MacBook7,1</string>
<string>MacBookAir3,2</string>
<string>MacBookPro5,5</string>
<string>MacPro2,1</string>
<string>Macmini4,1</string>
<string>iMac10,1</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
On the other thread (Create Windows install disk option in Lion Bootcamp?) you are asking about modifying Bootcamp info.plist, which will not help you.
Your Mac may be able to support creating the USB after you modify the Info.plist, but it will not boot from this USB, if you use BCA.
Loner i didn't get u
what do u mean ?
what should i do now ?
On Macs with built-in Optical drives, the only supported method o installing Windows is to use a physical Windows DVD Installer, and a USB Flash stick (use for BC drivers only). If you change the info.plist, it still does not fix the issue where BCA tells the Mac to boot from the Optical drive and ignores the USB-based Windows installer.
so what should i do now ? how can i install win 8 on my mac that i can boot with ?
Is your Optical drive fully functional?
it also shows this message :
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
i that related to the problem ?
i have no partition named such as disk0 and those things that i found in searches .
Please post the output of the following Terminal commands. Enter your password for the "sudo" commands, and it will not be echoed back to you.
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
diskutil list
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS MAC OS 124.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS WIN 71.2 GB disk0s4
5: Apple_HFS Entertainment 60.0 GB disk0s5
6: Apple_HFS WIN8 40.2 GB disk0s6
7: Apple_HFS Work 50.0 GB disk0s7
8: Apple_HFS WIN 8 50.2 GB disk0s8
9: Apple_HFS MAJID 51.0 GB disk0s9
10: Apple_HFS Utility 51.5 GB disk0s10
diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
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 976773167
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 242952416 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
243362056 1269544 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
244631600 139007688 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
383639288 262144
383901432 117187496 5 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
501088928 262144
501351072 78498752 6 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
579849824 262144
580111968 97656248 7 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
677768216 262144
678030360 98030000 8 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
776060360 262144
776322504 99663408 9 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
875985912 262144
876248056 100525072 10 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
976773128 7
976773135 32 Sec GPT table
976773167 1 Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167] <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
The current disk cannot be used for Bootcamp on your Mac, without significant work. For Bootcamp to work you should only have GPT1-3 which should be EFI, OSX and Recovery HD. You have 10 GPT partitions. What is WIN and 2 x WIN8?
in the win partition i have a vmware win7 file and ones of the win 8 partition is new and ready for new winnows to be installed in and the other one is different stuff the name of the partition is not really about the content and its by mistake , ill change it when i am done with this process
BCA will not let you partition this drive in its current configuration.
OK
what can i do now ?
is it possible to install a windows to boot with right now or not ?
should i change the partition ?
is there any way other than using BCA ?
why in bootcamp select task page , install windows checkbox is not active ?
