Non-system disk after installing Windows

Hello everyone,
I have a rMBP15 inch (late 2013) and am running 10.10 Beta 2. I tried installing Windows 7 via bootcamp but it keeps failing on me. After going through the Bootcamp Assistant (and assigning how much space I want to give the bootcamp partition) my Macbook reboots, and displays 'Non-system disk, press any key to reboot'. When I try to press any key, it doesn't respond.
When I turn off my Macbook and turn it on again, the same message displays. When I boot into the Startup Manager (by pressing Alt when booting up) it only shows Macintosh HD, and no Windows installation (which seems to make sense, I didn't install Windows yet, only made the partition...). What am I doing wrong and why is it not installing Windows like it should? I can't boot into the USB Stick I'm using either.
I would really appreciate any help as I really need to have Windows working on my machine too.
Thank you very much in advance!

You cannot have two OS X installations and Bootcamp on a single disk. This is because Bootcamp uses MBR to install, which has limit of four partitions (EFI/ESP, Recovery HD, OS X, Windows).
W7 will have issues if you use EFI, but if you have choice, using W8.1 will let you get EFI based installation on this machine without the Hybrid MBR/CSM-BIOS method. I have it running via EFI on the same model.

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