However, the fixes are fairly straightforward once you Messages actually makes an EFI installation seem impossible, despite the EFI boot loaderīeing present on the Windows disc. When installing under EFI on a Mac or other EFI based system. The issues below will prevent the installation of Windows 8 (and 8.1) from succeeding Seriously, Ubuntu is free and much easier to install!). Record than as an endorsement of something that’s worth doing (it’s not too hard, but This information involved some trial and error to discover, I post it here more for the Note: this procedure gets rapidly more complicated under only slightly unusualĬircumstances (such as having a non Windows OS installed, or more than one disk). GPT just as I do with Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
The placement of a Windows partition, I wanted to try installing Windows 8.1 using EFI and Since Windows 8 now supports installation under EFI 1, and Boot Camp is fairly rigid about Only be installed by emulating an MBR disk, typically by using Apple’s Boot Camp to Until recently, this has meant that Windows can I decided to install Windows 8.1 on my MacBook.Īll Intel based Macs use EFI with a GUID partition table (GPT), instead of the I recently wanted to test something on Windows, and not wanting to use a virtual machine,
