So if you haven’t been keeping up on the Apple Blogs, bootcamp finally supports Winders 7!
I decided to jump in head first into this fun little adventure this evening…. and things…. well things didn’t go as well as I thought they could have gone… and there are more then a few landmines.
So here is the setup…. I’m running Mac OS X 10.6.2 on a Mid 2007 Mac Book Pro (2.4 GHZ Santa Rosa) bootcamped with Windows XP 32 Bit (20GB Partition)
If you read all of the docs from Apple they tell you to boot into Windows and do the upgrade from there… and just like a real Windows XP to 7 upgrade you have to do a “Custom/Advanced” upgrade to make the jump.
So I reboot the Mac and when I reboot I boot off of the DVD drive and select the Windows 7 x64 DVD and hit enter… I’m then presented with a option
“1.
2.
Select CD-Rom Boot Type:_”
OH and just to make it real interesting my keyboard doesn’t work… nor does my USB keyboard.
I do what any logical IT person would do… I reboot 4 or 5 more times… all with the same result.
So when your a IT guy and you have these issues there is really only one thing left to do… GOOGLE THAT SHIT!’
A couple of other folks have run into this same problem…
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/servervirtualization/thread/a8ae28ed-daf8-4e47-a356-84fb57cf9016/
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=467704
The basic cruxt is that there is a format mis-match between this MBP and a file in the EFI boot folder on the disk… A bit more googling and following links the best method to fix the file problem in the EFI folder is to extract the DVD to a ISO file and then reburn it to a new disk.
And the easiest way to do that is here…
http://sergiomcfly.blogspot.com/2008/04/select-cd-rom-boot-type-when-installing.html
At this point you have a burnable disk and should be able to proceed with the upgrade.
Stupid Mac…