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Apple: Official Boot Camp Support for Windows 7 Coming Later This Year
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For what it's worth, I have been unable to install W7 under bootcamp on my 27 inch iMac. It just hangs after one of the restarts during the install.
Has anyone seen if they could just partition out some space formatted at FAT32 to see if W7 will load over EFI (it should)?
I have a new mbp and a 3 year old mbp. Win 7 installs just great on the new mbp. It doesn't even install on the 3 year old mbp. It gives me this press 1 or 2 for the cd message...
Is it the 64bit version of Windows 7 ? that's the message you get if you try to install the 64bit version on a machine that won't support it.
Yes, it is the 64 bit win 7. There is another thread on macrumors that talks about that error message and gives a work around on how to get it to boot. I read through it and decided to wait. I don't really need win 7. I have the win7 rc that will expire in June that I've been fooling around with.
The only thing that I would use win 7 for is to use it to use blu ray on a mac (need an external blu ray drive too).
Windows 7 is trying to use the EFI booter and that doesn't work on certain older Mac models.
The DVD image has to be rebuilt. You have to use oscdimg and the instructions vary. I already had an ISO on my drive so I didn't have to copy the contents to make a new image.
Windows 7 defaults to the displayport as the video so you cant finish the install without doing some tinkering.
Try USB ?
You can create a bootable USB thumb drive version of the Windows 7 installation disk very easily.
Details at:
There's a chance that whatever's confusing your installation about the DVD drive won't happen with a USB drive.
It's simpler to manually select "boot from USB key" in the boot options. If you have it automatically boot from the thumb drive, it will loop. Watch the installation, and when it does the first reboot remove the USB drive while it's in the POST code. (If you miss that, and find it at the installation screen - pull the thumb drive and reboot, and it will continue with the disk-based installation.)
You can create a bootable USB thumb drive version of the Windows 7 installation disk very easily.
Details at:
http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36/ar...ng-up-a-usb-bootable-device-for-installs.aspx
or
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx
or
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx
There's a chance that whatever's confusing your installation about the DVD drive won't happen with a USB drive.
It's simpler to manually select "boot from USB key" in the boot options. If you have it automatically boot from the thumb drive, it will loop. Watch the installation, and when it does the first reboot remove the USB drive while it's in the POST code. (If you miss that, and find it at the installation screen - pull the thumb drive and reboot, and it will continue with the disk-based installation.)
I tried making a USB bootable drive with my Windows 7 disc but it didn't work the first time around. It never showed up in the boot loader. I'll have to try it again with the new utility.
I have plenty of DVD+RWs so using oscdimg wasn't too much trouble to make a new disc.
Just a guess, but did you set the partition to be "active"? I've seen BIOS and other boot code that ignores non-active partitions, since by traditional definition they are not bootable.