Q: vmWare Fusion nor System Preferences doesn't find windows startup disk in El Capitan iMac 27 late 2015
My mac is iMac 27" retina (late 2015) with OS X 10.11.5, 32 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD and 2 TB hard disk.
CoreStorage is reverted (disabled, no Fusion). SIP rootless (csrutil disabled). Diskutil list see below:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0
1: Microsoft Reserved 134.2 MB disk0s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data WIN8 322.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS DuunitP 1.7 TB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS MacintoshOSX 120.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
I can't figure anymore what to try. I can't install windows 8.1 with Bootcamp Assistant. Won't work with those disk combination or with this mac. Partition and formatting to HFS+ and FAT32 doesn't help either. Windows setup says can't install because disk is not GPT. Only possible way to install windows is to delete all partitions on disk0 and make new ones for NTFS and HFS. Then windows setup is able to format and install.
After successful installation windows bootable with restart option-button pressed and works ok. Even OS X system preferences sees Windows partition but can't change startup disk to windows. Says "bless-command can't set startup disk". vmWare Fusion 8.11 can't find bootcamp startup disk either.
GDISK -p list:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): Disk /dev/disk0: 3907029168 sectors, 1.8 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 68EE12E9-3113-4AAD-8008-61E6B4252FAE
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907029134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 264191 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ...
2 264192 629147647 299.9 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
3 629147648 3907029134 1.5 TiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+
Command (? for help):
No problems found. 2014 free sectors (1007.0 KiB) available in 1
segments, the largest of which is 2014 (1007.0 KiB) in size.
Command (? for help):
GPT -r -vv show /dev/disk0 list:
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 2014
2048 262144 1 GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
264192 628883456 2 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
629147648 3277881487 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3907029135 32 Sec GPT table
3907029167 1 Sec GPT header
I've tried all gpt and gdisk guides with no luck. As you can see. Don't know what to try. Where or what is the problem in my mac.
Anybody, any help or tip?
Posted on Jul 14, 2016 5:08 AM