I am trying to use Boot Camp on Yosemite to install Windows 8. When I launch Boot Camp, it doesn't show me any available partitions to install on. I have one partition called Macintosh HD. This is a clean install of Yosemite, not upgraded from a previous version on OS X. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Has BCA partitioned your disk? You can check by looking at the output of the following command.
sudo gpt -vv -r shwo /dev/disk0
in OSX Terminal. You will need to enter your password to see the partition layout.
BCA ha not been used on this Macbook before. It is a clean installation of Yosemite, and the install did all the partitioning automagically. Here is the output from this command.
Michaels-MBP:~ bradleym$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000555581440; sectorsize=512; blocks=1954210120
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 1954210119
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 1952530904 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1952940544 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1954210080 7
1954210087 32 Sec GPT table
1954210119 1 Sec GPT header
Can you run BCA and start the process as documented in Set up a Windows partition on your Mac - Apple Support?
Please also see How to install Windows using Boot Camp - Apple Support.
No partitions showing up in Boot Camp in Yosemite
