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Bootcamp: "Bootmgr is missing" at boot after OSX 10.13 High Sierra upgrade

Hi,


Following the upgrade to OSX 10.13 High Sierra on a mid 2012 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro containing a Bootcamp partition with a Windows 7 Ultimate on it, it became impossible to boot natively under Windows.

Windows complains saying: Bootmgr is missing.

The files from the BOOTCAMP Volume are still accessible from OSX


I tried to boot into the Windows 7 installation disk from a USB key to "Repair Startup Problems"

I tried to fix the boot record using these commands


bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /fixboot

bootrec /rebuildbcd


I did all this both natively or from a VMWare Fusion Bootcamp VM

But none of this restores the boot record properly


Here is the output of


diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0


alexandras-macbook-pro-2:refind-bin-0.11.2 sashakhat$ 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_APFS Container disk1 175.7 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 75.1 GB disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +175.7 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Alexandra Khatuntseva 156.0 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 21.2 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 507.2 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4


/dev/disk2 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *32.0 GB disk2

1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 32.0 GB disk2s1


alexandras-macbook-pro-2:refind-bin-0.11.2 sashakhat$ diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

alexandras-macbook-pro-2:refind-bin-0.11.2 sashakhat$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR 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 MBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 343066584 2 GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

343476224 146757632 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

490233856 863

490234719 32 Sec GPT table

490234751 1 Sec GPT header

alexandras-macbook-pro-2:refind-bin-0.11.2 sashakhat$ 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 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: FF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 343066584] Xenix BBT

*3: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 343476224 - 146757632] Win95 FAT32L

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused


And the output of

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C


00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS .....|

00000010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 00 08 79 14 |........?.....y.|

00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 ff 57 bf 08 00 00 00 00 |.........W......|

00000030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

00000040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ff c4 28 0a f2 28 0a e2 |..........(..(..|

00000050 00 00 00 00 54 33 32 20 20 20 33 c9 8e d1 bc f4 |....T32 3.....|

00000060 7b 8e c1 8e d9 bd 00 7c 88 4e 02 8a 56 40 b4 41 |{......|.N..V@.A|

00000070 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 10 81 fb 55 aa 75 0a f6 c1 01 |..U..r...U.u....|

00000080 74 05 fe 46 02 eb 2d 8a 56 40 b4 08 cd 13 73 05 |t..F..-.V@....s.|

00000090 b9 ff ff 8a f1 66 0f b6 c6 40 66 0f b6 d1 80 e2 |.....f...@f.....|

000000a0 3f f7 e2 86 cd c0 ed 06 41 66 0f b7 c9 66 f7 e1 |?.......Af...f..|

000000b0 66 89 46 f8 83 7e 16 00 75 38 83 7e 2a 00 77 32 |f.F..~..u8.~*.w2|

000000c0 66 8b 46 1c 66 83 c0 0c bb 00 80 b9 01 00 e8 2b |f.F.f..........+|

000000d0 00 e9 2c 03 a0 fa 7d b4 7d 8b f0 ac 84 c0 74 17 |..,...}.}.....t.|

000000e0 3c ff 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb ee a0 fb 7d |<.t............}|

000000f0 eb e5 a0 f9 7d eb e0 98 cd 16 cd 19 66 60 80 7e |....}.......f`.~|

00000100 02 00 0f 84 20 00 66 6a 00 66 50 06 53 66 68 10 |.... .fj.fP.Sfh.|

00000110 00 01 00 b4 42 8a 56 40 8b f4 cd 13 66 58 66 58 |....B.V@....fXfX|

00000120 66 58 66 58 eb 33 66 3b 46 f8 72 03 f9 eb 2a 66 |fXfX.3f;F.r...*f|

00000130 33 d2 66 0f b7 4e 18 66 f7 f1 fe c2 8a ca 66 8b |3.f..N.f......f.|

00000140 d0 66 c1 ea 10 f7 76 1a 86 d6 8a 56 40 8a e8 c0 |.f....v....V@...|

00000150 e4 06 0a cc b8 01 02 cd 13 66 61 0f 82 75 ff 81 |.........fa..u..|

00000160 c3 00 02 66 40 49 75 94 c3 42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 |...f@Iu..BOOTMGR|

00000170 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ............|

00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

*

000001a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0d 0a 42 4f |..............BO|

000001b0 4f 54 4d 47 52 20 69 73 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 |OTMGR is missing|

000001c0 ff 0d 0a 44 69 73 6b 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a |...Disk error...|

000001d0 50 72 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 79 20 74 6f |Press any key to|

000001e0 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 | restart........|

000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac c1 ce 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|

00000200

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Mar 22, 2018 6:42 PM

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Posted on Mar 26, 2018 8:41 AM

Hi LonetT,


Your previous reply inspired me to dig deeper into this forum and found this post really useful:


Bootmgr is missing...can I join the club?


I followed the marked solution (Nucear Holocaust) and rebuilt the bcd from scratch.


Everything is working like a charm now.


Thanks a lot for your help.

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Mar 23, 2018 4:18 AM in response to Loner T

Hi Loner T,


I was wishing you'd be the one to reply. The dd commands are indeed listing disk0s3 and not disk0s4. I must have pasted the wrong clipboard buffer into this thread. Sorry

Regarding the bootrec commands, I believe I was running them on X: as you guessed.

I just rebooted the Windows installation disk, opened a command prompt and issued these commands:


c:

bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /fixboot

bootrec /rebuildbcd

Removed the USB key, Restarted the computer, held Command, picked Windows, but bootmgr is still missing...

Any clues ?

Bootcamp: "Bootmgr is missing" at boot after OSX 10.13 High Sierra upgrade

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