BootCamp on SDD on system with Fusion Drive

These are some useful links that helped me:

FUSION DRIVE:

DIY Fusion Drives

https://medium.com/@dalemugford/diy-fusion-drives-the-right-way-2c9baa368984

Splitting a Fusion Drive

https://www.lifewire.com/split-fusion-drive-apart-2260166

Fix a split Fusion Drive - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584

Setting a Fusion Drive

https://www.lifewire.com/setting-up-fusion-drive-mac-2260165

Resizestack examples

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6856567?start=0&tstart=0

Resizing Mac Volumes with Disk Utility

https://www.lifewire.com/resize-mac-disk-utility-volume-os-x-el-capital-later-35 73395

SMC AND PRAM RESET:

SMC Reset

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

Reset NVRAM

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

WINDOWS SETUP:

Presence of other EFI partitions on other disks confuses Windows Setup

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/636944/win10-install-efi-system-partit ion-errors-until-i-unplugged-usb-drive/

Manually creating a 200MB EFI

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/mavericks-windows-8-on-same-drive-without-era sing.133940/page-2

Delete partitions when Diskpart refuses

https://superuser.com/questions/1077372/diskpart-cant-delete-a-partition-without -the-force-protected-parameter-set

Windows setup log files location. setupact.log

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744583(v=ws.10).aspx

How to view windows setup files

http://www.0x00.to/post/2013/06/15/How-to-view-Windows-Setup-log-files

BOOTCAMP:

Error SATA/AHCI

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/boot-camp-on-ssd-portion-of-3tb-fusion-on-5 k-imac-impossible.1839660/

BootCamp not requiring USB explanation

https://twocanoes.com/apple-boot-camp-no-longer-requires-usb-flash-drive/

BootCamp on macOS High Sierra

https://twocanoes.com/boot-camp-high-sierra/

BootCamp SIP and Partitioning

https://twocanoes.com/how-el-capitan-boot-camp-is-affected-by-apples/

Brigadier - Download BootCamp Drivers from Apple Servers

https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier

I've created it again on a MacMini with bootcamp

Device Identifier: disk3

Device Node: /dev/disk3

Whole: Yes

Part of Whole: disk3

Device / Media Name: STORE N GO

Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system)

Mounted: Not applicable (no file system)

File System: None

Content (IOContent): FDisk_partition_scheme

OS Can Be Installed: No

Media Type: Generic

Protocol: USB

SMART Status: Not Supported

Disk Size: 16.0 GB (16013852672 Bytes) (exactly 31277056 512-Byte-Units)

Device Block Size: 512 Bytes

Read-Only Media: No

Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (no file system)

Device Location: External

Removable Media: Removable

Media Removal: Software-Activated

Virtual: No

OS 9 Drivers: No

Low Level Format: Not supported

iMac-de-Javier:~ javiergil$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 2.0 TB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB 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_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 46.2 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 74.8 GB disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +2.0 TB disk2

Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2

2F279D86-4522-46D4-9FA6-1C207A1F4934

Unencrypted Fusion Drive

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk3

1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 16.0 GB disk3s1

iMac-de-Javier:~ javiergil$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 57FC5F65-7052-49FB-A2FD-46FCB35F09A3

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 2045729681408 B (2.0 TB)

Free Space: 409702400 B (409.7 MB)

|

+-< Physical Volume 6FA26662-ADBF-4B18-9FBA-26D6D9DCB3B1

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk1s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 46190505984 B (46.2 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume E4DD4F41-C8CA-48A1-8DB9-73A365AC0D7A

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 1

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 1999539175424 B (2.0 TB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 2B26D9E6-1E53-453A-8613-40E40E1FE0EC

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

Encryption Type: None

|

+-> Logical Volume 2F279D86-4522-46D4-9FA6-1C207A1F4934

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

Disk: disk2

Status: Online

Size (Total): 2039874191360 B (2.0 TB)

Revertible: No

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse

About the USB:

STORE N GO:

ID del producto: 0x3123

ID del fabricante: 0x13fe (Phison Electronics Corp.)

Versión: 1.10

Número de serie: 0793037B03F4

Velocidad: Hasta 480 Mb/s

Fabricante: Verbatim

ID de la ubicación: 0x14100000 / 1

Corriente disponible (mA): 500

Corriente necesaria (mA): 300

Corriente operativa adicional (mA): 0

Media:

STORE N GO:

Capacidad: 16,01 GB (16.013.852.672 bytes)

Soporte extraíble: Sí

Nombre BSD: disk3

Logical Unit: 0

Tipo de mapa de particiones: MBR (Registro maestro de arranque)

USB Interface: 0

Volúmenes:

WININSTALL:

Capacidad: 16,01 GB (16.013.851.648 bytes)

Disponible: 10,08 GB (10.076.659.712 bytes)

Grabable: Sí

Sistema de archivos: MS-DOS FAT32

Nombre BSD: disk3s1

Punto de montaje: /Volumes/WININSTALL

Contenido: DOS_FAT_32

Volumen UUID: FDB4C5C5-EE88-3D13-B0E0-272D0A94051C

Nothing connected except the USB with WindowsInstall. macOS 10.13.1

thank you. here you go....

iMac-de-Javier:~ javiergil$ mount -v

/dev/disk2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)

devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)

/dev/disk1s4 on /Volumes/BOOTCAMP (ntfs, local, read-only, noowners)

map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)

map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

/dev/disk3s1 on /Volumes/WININSTALL (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)

Thank you. Since the 4th and 5th partition thing didn't work. I've erased all and recreated the full Fusion Drive and reinstalled OS X.

I did this:

diskutil cs resizeStack FusionVolumeID SSDId 2050g free free 0g

which I think made what you want me to do: Leave approximately 70GB of unallocated so Window Installer will try to manage.

Booted Windows install usb, got to the partitions window selected the unallocated space of the SSD drive and clicked next. It didn’t give the yellow warning and error, and seemed to start copying Windows files, but a second later an error window appeared, saying the setup had to stop and that I had to re-start it. Which I did. This time, on the partitions window I found that Windows installed had created some partitions on the step before (info taken with Diskutil):

- partition 4: 523.2mb Windows recovery

- partition 5: efi No Name 104.9mb

- partition 6: Microsoft Reserved 16.8mb

- partition 7: Microsoft basic data NTFS 74gb

When I clicked on the 7th and clic next, I got the same yellow warning with the same error.

Now I’m erasing all again and recreating the full Fusion Drive and reinstall OSX and going to try to install Windows with BootCamp to see what happens.

Hi. what do yo mean? What can we try?

I’ve seen on the forum this post.

Windows 10 Boot Camp install won't let me install on BOOTCAMP partition on Mac Pro with SSD drive

it seems that my problem is very similar, to the one the user with the yellow avatar (Plysovej_Kaktus) experienced, although he was attempting to install Windows manually on the HDD whether I’m attempting to install Windows manually on the SSD.

Here is some information of the state of the partition and mbr. MBR looks ok. Nothing changed by trying to install windows. Still to protective MBRs.

In 6 or 7 hours I'll try the approach I mention in the post before. Maybe it's for nothing.....

What a mess Apple!! You could give us an option on BCA to select HDD or SDD and size of partition, and I'll work without problems and officially!!

-bash-3.2# diskutil list internal

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 2.0 TB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Windows Recovery 523.2 MB disk0s4

5: EFI NO NAME 104.9 MB disk0s5

/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_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 47.0 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 74.0 GB disk1s4

/dev/disk3 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +2.0 TB disk3

Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2

21784286-3333-4DE6-9E62-19141E8F6036

Unencrypted Fusion Drive

-bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 3907029167] <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

-bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 236978175] <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

-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=2000398934016; sectorsize=512; blocks=3907029168

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 3907029167

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 3904080416 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

3904490056 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

3905759592 1688

3905761280 1021952 4 GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC

3906783232 204800 5 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

3906988032 41103

3907029135 32 Sec GPT table

3907029167 1 Sec GPT header

-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

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 91730824 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

92140464 262144 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

92402608 1104

92403712 144572416 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

236976128 2015

236978143 32 Sec GPT table

236978175 1 Sec GPT header

-bash-3.2#

Finally I managed to do it!! I leave this here since I'm now booted on OSX Recovey and I don't have anywhere else to paste it. Tomorrow I'll write a detailed answer and a new post with a guide of how I managed to get Windows installed on the SSD.

-bash-3.2# diskutil list internal

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 809.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data WinMac 1.2 TB disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 74.8 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 46.0 GB disk1s3

4: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s4

/dev/disk3 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +849.8 GB disk3

Logical Volume on disk1s3, disk0s2

F3DEC352-EFCD-49BC-A325-6D70B1EA1433

Unencrypted Fusion Drive

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 23B5D5A6-F4F4-4CEB-84A7-6A88022B1092

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 855232585728 B (855.2 GB)

Free Space: 98304 B (98.3 KB)

|

+-< Physical Volume 6E110B27-FF01-497C-A091-6AA08913D8E8

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk1s3

| Status: Online

| Size: 46004154368 B (46.0 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume 88C3B7F8-5332-431A-9E48-0F4DBEC62AFC

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 1

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 809228431360 B (809.2 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 12672746-10F3-4B00-8A99-F522E7F850BA

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

Encryption Type: None

|

+-> Logical Volume F3DEC352-EFCD-49BC-A325-6D70B1EA1433

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

Disk: disk3

Status: Online

Size (Total): 849787748352 B (849.8 GB)

Revertible: No

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse

-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=2000398934016; sectorsize=512; blocks=3907029168

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 3907029167

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 1580524280 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1580933920 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

1582203456 2324563528 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

3906766984 262151

3907029135 32 Sec GPT table

3907029167 1 Sec GPT header

-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 2014

2048 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

411648 262144

673792 146190336 2 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

146864128 89851864 3 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236715992 262144 4 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

236978136 7

236978143 32 Sec GPT table

236978175 1 Sec GPT header

-bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 243201/255/63 [3907029168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 3907029167] <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

-bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

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

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

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 236978175] <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

-bash-3.2#

Hello. Thanks for your answer.

I created the USB installer with unetbootin.

Ok. I’m going to try and see what happens

Nothing. Same error during windows install.