- BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC HOW TO
- BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC MAC OS
- BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC INSTALL
- BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC DRIVERS
My next steps are to fix the partition / boot info on the physical drive, so it sees my windows partition on the "option" menu at boot up and as a startup volume.
It was able to boot into mbr with the destination being my partition. Then I "inserted" the iso into the virtual optical driveĬlosed the settings, and powered on the VM. Then I added a hard drive under the sata controller and selected my "win7destinationPartition" vmdk file. I enabled the "use host I/O cache on the SATA controller" option (otherwise it throws an error). Then I went to the settings for the vm I created and went to the storage tab. VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename win7destinationPartition.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk0s4 (use your drive/partition id found above)
BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC INSTALL
I was able to install windows 7 into the partition, but had to use VirtualBox to boot to the disc using mbr and avoid the freezing issue.Ĭreated a windows 7 VM with 1gb ram, with NO hard disk.Ĭreated a raw vmdk file manually using the following commands in mac terminal (this points to a physical disk, so use CAUTION):ĭiskutil list (to find your drive/partition id)ĭiskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk0s4 (use your drive/partition id found above)Ĭhmod 777 /dev/disk0s4(use your drive/partition id found above) This is all I've been able to find, but I'm currently stuck at booting the windows 7 install. Use the startup option in the mac settings to choose the default startup volume This link says more: Bootcamp support software on unsupported hardware There may be a "NOCHECK" command line parameter to pass to the MSI. You may need to modify a config file or trick the MSI installer to run. Install this software when booted into windows. Other devices may not show up correctly, such as the "coprocessor" and other apple unique devices.
BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC MAC OS
Install and then after it reboots, hold option to boot into the windows partition again to finish installingīoot into mac os and download the windows 7 bootcamp package FOR YOUR DEVICE (if there isn't one, you may not be able to have backlight, keyboard / mouse support like mac os does - but should have basic drivers). Using the windows installer, format the BOOTCAMP partition as NTFS
BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC DRIVERS
Some drivers also don't work for EFI windows installs yet, especially graphics. Partition hard drive using disk utility and have a 60gb minimum sized partition named "BOOTCAMP" as FAT to install windows toīoot to windows 7 usb (or disk if your mac is before 2011) using mbr boot (not efi because the bootcamp software is expecting an MBR install). Tricking bootcamp on el capitan (I believe they changed the plist file structure on macOS sierra despite it looking similar)įrom what I can tell, I believe the process is as follows: My post (in case it eventually gets answered) I posted a similar question in case this gets figured out and you can then see the answer there. I did find these online posts that could help. I believe select macs can be "tricked" into booting, but I am stuck a bit as well.
BOOT CAMP. FOR MAC HOW TO
TL DR How to install Windows 7 (and not Windows 10) using Boot Camp Assistant on my MacBook using the newest Boot Camp Assistant version and the current macOS Sierra?Īpple has recently dropped support for windows versions less than 10 on macOS sierra. I then decided I would be using Windows 7 as well since it apparently requires less storage space, but Boot Camp Assistant seems to have forgotten that any Windows other than 10 has ever existed. So I talked to a friend who has Windows on his MacBook Air, and he told me that he has a 30GB partition and that Boot Camp Assistant never asked for more than this, but he installed it a long time ago (probably on Lion, or Mountain Lion) and he uses Windows 7. I was planning on having a 30GB partition for Windows.
I don't have anything against Windows 10, in fact, I was planning on installing it, but apparently I need to have 50GB of free space on my SSD before Boot Camp Assistant can even begin doing its thing.ĥ0GB is simply too much to have free on a 128GB SSD. It assumes I want Windows 10 and doesn't give me any other options. I am trying to install Windows via Boot Camp Assistant on my Mid-2014 MacBook Pro Retina, but it's only giving me the option to install Windows 10.
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