Booting up without the option key???

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rin.hagemi Author

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Booting up without the option key???

I have installed Windows 8.1 pro on my macbook pro 15" mid14.

I think I have installed the Windows successfully...

But now I need to boot my mac with pressing the option key, otherwise I get the error message

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

So now whether I want to boot onto OS X or Windows, I have to press the option key whilst booting.

Is this normal??

Are there any options where I can choose OS X to boot??

Thank you in advance.

Rin

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 12:32 PM

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Loner T

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Mar 3, 2015 12:44 PM in response to rin.hagemi

Do you know if you installed Windows using EFI boot or the regular Bootcamp Assistant method?

Do you have Control Panel -> System -> Boot Camp? If yes, click on it and choose OSX and restart.

You can switch to Windows using System Preferences -> Startup Disk -> Bootcamp -> Restart.

Please also see Boot Camp: Set the default operating system.

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rin.hagemi Author

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Mar 4, 2015 11:18 AM in response to Loner T

Hi, Loner

Thank you for your response. I have installed it using the regular Bootcamp Assistant method.

It seems that when I shutdown the mac on OS X, it will boot onto the OS X when restart.

But when I shutdown or restart from Windows, then the error message seems to appear.

Is it some sort of bug??

Thank you.

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Loner T

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Mar 4, 2015 11:25 AM in response to rin.hagemi

Can you post the output of the following command?

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

This will prompt you for your password, and it will not be echoed back to you. It may warn you about improper use and potential data loss, if "abused".

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rin.hagemi Author

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Mar 4, 2015 11:31 AM in response to Loner T

Hi,

this was output of the command:

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060

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 977105059

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 732421888 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

732831528 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

734101064 440

734101504 243003392 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

977104896 131

977105027 32 Sec GPT table

977105059 1 Sec GPT header

I hope this is any help.

Thank you for your assistance.

Rin

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Loner T

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Mar 4, 2015 11:35 AM in response to rin.hagemi

Can you post the output of the following? (Should have asked for these earlier 😝).

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

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rin.hagemi Author

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Mar 4, 2015 11:39 AM in response to Loner T

The output of sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS .....|

00000010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 00 80 c1 2b |........?......+|

00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 ff ef 7b 0e 00 00 00 00 |..........{.....|

00000030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 cb a8 79 b6 e0 79 b6 2e |..........y..y..|

00000050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 68 c0 07 |.....3.....|.h..|

00000060 1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16 0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e |..hf......f.>..N|

00000070 54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb |TFSu..A..U..r...|

00000080 55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00 75 03 e9 dd 00 1e 83 ec |U.u.....u.......|

00000090 18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16 0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13 |.h...H..........|

000000a0 9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72 e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3 |.....X.r.;...u..|

000000b0 0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e 5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8 |........Z3... +.|

000000c0 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8 |f...............|

000000d0 4b 00 2b c8 77 ef b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 2d |K.+.w......f#.u-|

000000e0 66 81 fb 54 43 50 41 75 24 81 f9 02 01 72 1e 16 |f..TCPAu$....r..|

000000f0 68 07 bb 16 68 52 11 16 68 09 00 66 53 66 53 66 |h...hR..h..fSfSf|

00000100 55 16 16 16 68 b8 01 66 61 0e 07 cd 1a 33 c0 bf |U...h..fa....3..|

00000110 0a 13 b9 f6 0c fc f3 aa e9 fe 01 90 90 66 60 1e |.............f`.|

00000120 06 66 a1 11 00 66 03 06 1c 00 1e 66 68 00 00 00 |.f...f.....fh...|

00000130 00 66 50 06 53 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 16 0e |.fP.Sh..h...B...|

00000140 00 16 1f 8b f4 cd 13 66 59 5b 5a 66 59 66 59 1f |.......fY[ZfYfY.|

00000150 0f 82 16 00 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff |....f...........|

00000160 0e 16 00 75 bc 07 1f 66 61 c3 a1 f6 01 e8 09 00 |...u...fa.......|

00000170 a1 fa 01 e8 03 00 f4 eb fd 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 |............<.t.|

00000180 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64 69 |............A di|

00000190 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 6f 63 |sk read error oc|

000001a0 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 0d 0a 42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 |curred...BOOTMGR|

000001b0 20 69 73 20 63 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0d | is compressed..|

000001c0 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b |.Press Ctrl+Alt+|

000001d0 44 65 6c 20 74 6f 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a |Del to restart..|

000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 8a 01 a7 01 bf 01 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|

00000200

and the output of sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 977105059] <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

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Loner T

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Mar 4, 2015 1:48 PM in response to rin.hagemi

The MBR (output of Fdisk) is corrupted. Please download http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ and install it.

Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR.

Use defaults as suggested by Gdisk for other questions (for example Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): AF).

Sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

P (Print list of parts)

R (Recover)

H (chooses Hybrid)

Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4

Y (Good for GRUB question)

N (part 2 boot flag)

N (part 3 boot flag)

Y (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)

W (Write the new MBR)

Y (Yes! write the new MBR)

Reboot

The following example uses 0x'0C' for partition 4, but you need to use the default values that Gdisk suggests as it extracts them from the GPT side. it should be 0x'07'.

sudo gdisk /dev/disk1

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): P

Disk /dev/disk1: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 00009009-148E-477E-8A0E-4F581BB1031D

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 2573 sectors (1.3 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 1248195463 595.0 GiB AF05 Internal Drive

3 1248195464 1249465223 620.0 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 1249466368 1953523711 335.7 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP

Command (? for help): R

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): H

WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,

just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will

be untouched.

Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be

added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 2 3 4

Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): Y

Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)

Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): af05

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N

Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)

Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): ab00

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N

Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)

Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 0c

Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): Y

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): P

Disk /dev/disk1: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 00009009-148E-477E-8A0E-4F581BB1031D

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 2573 sectors (1.3 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 1248195463 595.0 GiB AF05 Internal Drive

3 1248195464 1249465223 620.0 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 1249466368 1953523711 335.7 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): W

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING

PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y

OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk1.

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.

You should reboot or remove the drive.

The operation has completed successfully.

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rin.hagemi Author

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Mar 5, 2015 12:13 PM in response to Loner T

Hi,

which version I need to install gptfdisk software?? I am having difficulties in installing gptfdisk software from the source.

If I am right, I am missing some dependencies. Do I need to install MacPort to install gptfdisk??

I have installed gptfdisk 0.8.0., since it did have pkg version.

However, I have this error.

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: __ZN3icu13UnicodeStringC1Ev

Referenced from: /usr/sbin/gdisk

Expected in: /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found: __ZN3icu13UnicodeStringC1Ev

Referenced from: /usr/sbin/gdisk

Expected in: /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib

I am bit worried that I may mess up my computer..

Thank you

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Loner T

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Mar 5, 2015 12:57 PM in response to rin.hagemi

The SourceForge link downloads 0.8.10 pkg. You do not need MacPorts.

I am on Yosemite

$ uname -a

Darwin MBP13.home 14.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.3.0: Thu Feb 12 18:38:33 PST 2015; root:xnu-2782.20.34~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk0

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

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rin.hagemi Author

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Mar 6, 2015 10:26 AM in response to Loner T

I have tried the process described above. I am not sure what I have done wrong, but I have tried to boot up windows, but now it give me error 0xc000000e .

Have I messed up Windows booting??

Do I have to install Windows again or do I have to install Windows boot thing from Windows installation DVD??

Could I have some guidance, please?

Thank you again in advance.

Rin

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Loner T

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Mar 6, 2015 10:34 AM in response to rin.hagemi

You will need Windows Startup Repair. Please see the following links.

https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc000000e/

https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootrec/

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392?wa=wsignin1.0

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rin.hagemi Author

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Mar 6, 2015 11:29 AM in response to Loner T

Hi, I have tried methods that are mentioned on the links.

But none of them worked and now my Windows usb installation also does not boot any more.

So I think I will reinstall the Windows agian.

thank you for your help and time.

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Loner T

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Mar 6, 2015 11:48 AM in response to rin.hagemi

You should back up any data you need, before you re-install Windows. Do not use Disk Utility to remove current Windows. Use only BCA to remove Windows.

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Mar 6, 2015 11:44 AM in response to Loner T

Thank you for your advice.

i will do that.

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