Help with BootCamp 5

Create partition:

Create a partition in some way. You can use Boot Camp Assistant to shrink existing HFS+ partition and create a FAT32 partition or you can do it yourself via Disk Utility or diskutil command line tool.

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Eject your Boot Camp partition so that it can be remounted elsewhere.

Setting up Virtual Box:

Set up Virtual Box to use your physical Boot Camp partition. To do this you'll have to make a raw disk image that is bound to your physical disk. In my case it was the disk1 and partition number 3 (disk1s3 as seen from Disk Utility’s Info). To create the image, change directory to some good enough place to hold the file and enter:

Code:

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk1 -filename bootcamp.vmdk -partitions 3

Next, give yourself access to the physical disk and the just created image files:

Code:

sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk1s3
sudo chown $USER bootcamp*.vmdk

Last thing is to actually set up Virtual Box Guest OS. There is nothing special there, except that you specify your bootcamp.vmdk as the startup disk, instead of creating new one.

Installing Windows:

Install Windows to the Virtual Box guest as usual. I shut down the Virtual Box client at the “Setting up Windows for first use” step, but according to some, you could stop even at the first reboot, though it didn’t seem to work in my case.

Now you should have a partition that is visible to the Mac Boot menu, but not a working Windows installation.

Next step is to restart the install, only this time on the real hardware. To accomplish this, mount the Boot Camp partition, delete everything and copy over all files from the installer ISO. You probably need to have some kind of NTFS driver, either NTFS-3G or some commercial driver like the Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X.

After you copy over the files, reboot your Mac and hold down Option-key to access the Windows partition. Now install windows as you would if you had with optical disk attached.

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seangibbz said:

I've had a similar issue. I wanted to create a USB from boot camp. I've tried adding my identifier in the numerical order (MacBookPro8,2). However, I get the "Boot Camp Assistant quit unexpectedly." error whenever I try to start Boot Camp after modifying the info.plist file.

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