BootChamp not working, alt/option for Bootcamp and windows work though...
Hi Guys,
As the thread title states, Bootcamp and windows works, but BootChamp does not. I keep getting a "Bless Failed" error (See below). The Windows 8 installation is on a separate drive that is partitioned 80/20 for windows and Parallels, but I did not change/move the partition. I did not alter this drive in any way. Again, Windows still works and I can still boot into it VIA Bootcamp (Using and old card with EFI in my Mac Pro). OSX is on a separate drive : A PCIE SSD from Other World Computing, and I did do a Carbon-Copy-Clone of it to put on a new larger PCIE SSD (Also OWC) and everything worked fine, BootChamp worked once or twice, and then I restarted again... and then it didn't work. 😟 ...No idea why.
Part of my problem is that I have a new "unsupported" video card in my Mac Pro (2009 upgraded firmware to 2010) that I need to use on the windows side, so I NEED BootChamp. The video card is an nVidia GTX 920 SC and does NOT have EFI so I cannot use Bootcamp when this card is in. I have to use BootChamp to switch over to windows, because without EFI (As some of you may know) you can't see the light grey boots-creen with Apple logo. I retained my old GT 120 video card WITH EFI so that I could do things that require it and swap between them pretty often (OSX Updates).
I read through some threads here and found some info from generous helpful people who know what the **** they are doing (like Loner T), and put together some info that was often requested in other threads in order to help others provide me with direction.
Just a heads up, in the output below, Disk 0 is the PCIE SSD that OSX is installed on, the three 1TB Disks : 1, 2, and 3 are stripped into a 3-disk RAID 0 which culminates into one 3 TB Disk listed as Disk 5. Disk 4 is the 1TB drive with Windows on it.
Any and all help is appreciated, let me know if you know what the issue is, or if you need me to provide more info for a better picture of the issue.
Thanks!
Kevin
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BootChamp Error :
BootChamp was unable to set your Windows volume as the temporary startup disk
Bless failed:
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Mount point for /Volumes/BOOTCAMP is /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
Mount point is '/Volumes/BOOTCAMP'
No BootX creation requested
No boot.efi creation requested
Firmware feature mask: 0x000003FF
Firmware features: 0x00000014
Legacy mode NOT suppported
Legacy mode not supported on this system
Out put of Terminal Commands requested by Apple forum member Loner T:
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Last login: Sun Aug 16 20:40:19 on console
KMH-Mac-Pro:~ MyName$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *479.9 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac OSX 479.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 784.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_RAID 999.9 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_RAID 999.9 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s3
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_RAID 999.9 GB disk3s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk3s3
/dev/disk4
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk4
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS Parallels 98.9 GB disk4s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 901.0 GB disk4s3
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Storage1-RAID *3.0 TB disk5
KMH-Mac-Pro:~ kevinhannon$
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KMH-Mac-Pro:~ MyName$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk4
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk4 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 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: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 193087712] HFS+
*3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 193761280 - 1759762432] HPFS/QNX/AUX
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
KMH-Mac-Pro:~ MyName$
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KMH-Mac-Pro:~ MyName$ sudo gpt -v -r show /dev/disk4
gpt show: /dev/disk4: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk4: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
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 193087712 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
193497352 263928
193761280 1759762432 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT header
KMH-Mac-Pro:~ MyName$
