I have a fairly new mac book pro with retina display- I have not tried installing anything other OS on it. In spite of that yesterday when I turned it on, I got the error: no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key. what is the reason for this?
I swithced it on by clicking on options when I start up and then clicked on Macintosh HD. the other option was a question mark and network drive.
Is there a way to ensure it never happens again, what is the cause for this problem, if I need to uninstall some application, i am happy to do it as long as I know what is causing this conflict.
many thanks!
Something is not making sense here.
You claim this is a brand new machine and you have not tried to install Windows or Boot Camp.
Then why would you ever even go into System Preferences > Startup Disk and choose Macintosh HD? It should have automatically booted into Macintosh HD.
You're probably going to have to reinstall Mac OS X.
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409640 1709658208 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1710067848 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
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Disk: /dev/disk1
geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 0 0 2 - 25 127 14 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 1709658208] HFS+
*3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1711337472 - 242186240] HPFS/QNX/AUX
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
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2: Apple_CoreStorage 119.7 GB disk0s2
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2: Apple_CoreStorage 875.3 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 124.0 GB disk1s4
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Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
FFA13FBC-2001-40B7-8BBB-BE6EECF8AC11
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I have gdisk installed and am ready to mess around. Any help would be greatly appreciated!So, when I started my iMac yesterday morning it couldn't boot into OS X anymore either. Several hours of restoring later I am back to square one. I tried installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp again but got the same error message. This time I noticed though that Bootcamp asked me to remove the bootable option from the USB drive with the support drivers in order to install from DVD. Does that ring any bells? I am building another USB drive right now, hoping it would ask me again but this I will decline and try to boot from it.
When you restored, was a Time Machine restore used? TM does not backup Bootcamp and does an erase of the partition. It may also erase the entire disk (including the Fusion drive) if the specific backup of the volume layout of the disks indicates a pre-Bootcamp layout.
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You also wrote
When I plug the external DVD drive in, the boot manager recognizes a "Windows" disc and an "EFI Boot" disc. If I select the "Windows" disc I get a black screen with a blinking dash.
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1. The two disks are not in a CoreStorage set up initially.
2. The second disk is partitioned (64Gb) and a Bootcamp W7 install completed via USB (this is different HW as compared to IMac, because it has no Optical drive).
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diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group A8C00490-0E14-401F-AB69-59F37724E8C4
=========================================================
Name: Fusion
Status: Online
Size: 1190201270272 B (1.2 TB)
Free Space: 0 B (0 B)
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+-< Physical Volume 4772013B-5520-4801-9BE5-BCAEF4AEDAB3
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 255716540416 B (255.7 GB)
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+-< Physical Volume A679A101-3C78-4A59-B5EE-A4339210CFAD
| ----------------------------------------------------
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| Status: Online
| Size: 934484729856 B (934.5 GB)
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Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Conversion Status: NoConversion
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: No
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
|
+-> Logical Volume 1512657C-ED13-4B31-82C6-7AECBBCA7F98
Disk: disk2
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Conversion Progress: -none-
Revertible: No
LV Name: Fusion HD
Volume Name: Fusion HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
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2: Apple_CoreStorage 255.7 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
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2: Apple_CoreStorage 934.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 650.0 MB disk1s3
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No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key, over and over again...
I've seen a lot of discussions about "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" but the answers in them don't seem to help me at all.
from the begining...
i was tryin to instal windows 7 on my 2014 iMac and after bootcamp prepared the iso on a flash drive, the computer restarted in the windows instalation screen and i chose the "BOOTCAMP" partition.
After thi i got an error with a mesage that the partition wans not in ntfs, and a question if i wanted to format it. As i am recent to OSX but i was a windows user for quite a while i thought, ok there should be no problem about letting windows format this BOOTCAMP partition so i went ahead and did it. after this i stopped the process because at the moment i seem to recal that in the mac osx bootcamp help there was something about making sure to installing windows to the BOOTCAMP partition. So i canceled the process and restarted the iMac.
Now i get the "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" message over and over.
I've tryed restarting with alt, alt+cmd+p+r, alt+r, etc and allways get the same message.
Just before tryin to install windows on a secondary partition had the iMac backup to an external drive on my airport express via time machine.
Questions.
are there any other ways to boot into OSX again, or after letting windows format the BOOTCAMP partition all is lost?
If everything is lost, how do i boot to restore my time machine backup from the external drive?
all help is apreciated.
Thanks in advanceSorry about that I just realized that Boot Camp may have decompressed your ISO, We can't really do much because Boot Camp may have told the mac to boot from the flash drive, but now your mac is most likely not being told to boot from it. (You where able to boot from the drive before so I would keep it all intact) Is your keyboard wireless (because it can cause your mac to not to register keys being pushed at the Macs start) which this may be preventing you from getting into recovery mode (Command-R) or the OS choosing screen (Option).
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No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key - problem
Hi,
I'm running an early-2008 MacBook (13-inch) that has previously had Windows Vista and Windows 7 installed to it through Bootcamp over the years.
A few weeks ago I did a fresh reinstall of OS X Lion (10.7.5) and decided to reinstall Windows 7 as well. I deleted all the partitions and started afresh. However, upon trying to reinstall Windows 7 I've become a wee bit stuck.
Bootcamp works fine at first - it lets me partition the HDD without any issues (the partition is MS-DOS - FAT32), but when it reboots it gives me a message 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key' against a black screen. I've never seen this message before and it won't let me continue with the installation. I'm able to get back into OS X by pressing the option key upon reboot.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? As I said I've used Bootcamp several times in the past on this machine without any problems. The only difference between then and now is that my Superdrive no longer works so I'm using an external DVD drive. However, the error happens regardless of whether it's plugged in.
Cheers,
Mattjeffjefftyjeff wrote:
The only difference between then and now is that my Superdrive no longer works so I'm using an external DVD drive. However, the error happens regardless of whether it's plugged in.
For Macs with built-in Optical drives, it must be functional for a Windows installation/installer to work. You will also need a USB2 flash drive.
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Help with "No bootable Device -- Insert boot disk and press any key" problem
Alright, I am on an Early 2011 17inch macbook pro. I have removed the superdrive to install a secondary disk drive for mass storage, then replaced the original one with an SSD blah blah blah. I do everything from the books, run bootcamp, make my USB windows 7 bootable in Bootcamp, go through everything and allocate 65gb towards windows. I have tried 4 different USB sticks and 3 different ISOs. Every time I try it, I get the same "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". I then have to hold down the power button, then restart, hold down option/alt key, and boot regularly into mac. I also read that holding option/alt whilst starting the macbook pro will show the windows USB stick, well it never appears. I dont know what I need to do, what I am doing wrong, but nothing is working. I guess the last thing I have to try is buying a superdrive and burning ISO to disc then try that. But I dont want to go out and spend more money. Other people have gotten it to work just fine from USB, I dont know what I must do or what I am doing wrong...
Open to suggestions and in desperate need of help. Anything is appreciated.
Thanks!Don't bump
get a new usb2 only flash drive and try the solution posted by kunu here and report back
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5105056?tstart=0
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Bootcamp - No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key help plz
Hello there!
I recently upgraded my imac mid 2010 system with a SSD hard-drive. The old "main" drive went to the place of super-drive and after reinstalling OS X into the new drive and wiping the old drive a very interesting problem happened. I started trying to install windows 7 via bootcamp. I did everything what the bootcamp assistant says and after the imac restarts itself it just says No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key. Firstly I thought that maybe something is wrong with the installation disk (i have an external super-drive connected to the imac). After restarting the imac once again i held down the option button and arrived to the screen, where it shows the avlaible boot options (different disks). Now, what I saw, was funny. The bootcamp assistant had'nt created the bootcamp drive at all. Atleast it did not show it. After doing this two-three times the result was the same. My next idea was that maybe, there is an issue with the concrete SSD model I am using. So I went back to OS X and opened the bootcamp assistant and restored the state of the OS X SSD drive. Next I did an bootcamp partition onto the old drive I have installed. But the result is still the same. Now my head is empty of ideas.
Has anybody had a similar problem and can you please give me tutorial what I did wrong or what to try next?
Thanks.
Indrek.Hi Michael!
Yep, I did get this running. Not in a normal way (meaning the easy way). What I did, is that I just created the BOOTCAMP partition in OS X. Just let it format and create the partition where you would install BOOTCAMP.
After that I discovered that via a ISO program (WinClone) you can directly restore a previously created OS X boot image to your current computer. So, I installed a blank Windows 7 to my macbook pro, didint install any drivers and just let it work up then. Then I went back to os X (in macbook pro) and made a bootimage for the BOOTCAMP partition. After that I saved it to my external harddrive and wired it to my iMac. In iMac I just downloaded the same boot-image program and restored the bootimage that I made in Macbook Pro to iMac. After that I made an restart and the bootcamp section with windows worked well with my iMac. Install the bootcamp soft and you can do everything and everything works. FYI, you get the windows working via those steps, BUT if you either delete or do anything to make your bootcamp partition unworkable then you will have to repeat those steps again. But it´s fast non-the-less, so it shouldn´t be a problem for you.
If you didin´t understand anything or something doesen´t add up, send me a letter or a notification.
Hope this helps.
Indrek.
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