Q: No bootable device insert boot disk (El Capitan)
I had windows 7 running on my late 2013 retina mbp but I ran out of space and wanted to repartition to give it more space. However, after getting through the windows 7 setup and installation, when I tried to option boot and select the windows partition (named Untitled for some reason) it just greys out and nothing happens and then proceeds to boot into Mac OS. I tried setting the windows partition as the default disk to boot into and that is where I got the error stating that there was no bootable device and to insert boot disk. I tried scouring the web for a solution but I can't seem to fix it! Here is some additional information I thought would be helpful -
MacBook-Pro:~ Andrew$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 141.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 109.1 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk1
1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 16.0 GB disk1s1
MacBook-Pro:~ Andrew$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
MacBook-Pro:~ Andrew$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
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 490234751
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 275390624 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
275800264 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
277069800 24
277069824 213164032 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856 863
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header
MacBook-Pro:~ Andrew$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=16008609792; sectorsize=512; blocks=31266816
gpt show: /dev/disk1: MBR at sector 0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1
2 31266814 1 MBR part 11
MacBook-Pro:~ Andrew$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 490234751] <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
MacBook-Pro:~ Andrew$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 1946/255/63 [31266816 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 2 - 31266814] Win95 FAT-32
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
Here is the USB I used to install Windows 7
I appreciate any help and thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 15 inch, late 2013
Posted on Mar 15, 2016 9:04 PM





