It turned out the USB install disk didn’t boot. Note I am not selecting the option to create a Windows install disk.Start “Boot Camp Assistant”, and select the options “Download the latest Windows Support”, and “Install Windows 7 or later versions”.For the impatient, run the command sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app. To do that, following the instructions here. After the modification, you need to resign Boot Camp Assistant, or else it will keep crashing.Modify Boot Camp Assistant’s ist as described here.The only way to trick the system to do that is to do the following: (Though it turns out at the end that this step is quite useless, since the USB install disk created by Boot Camp Assistant couldn’t boot! So you could really skip this step.)
It took me a while to figure this out (after reading numerous online posts), if your Mac has an optical drive, Boot Camp Assistant will NOT create a USB flash drive-based install disk. Having seen a ton of articles on the problems people had with bootcamp, I hope no one has to go through the troubles I went through. I can’t guarantee that these steps will work for you, but it’s probably good as a reference. Because the optical drive is busted, I cannot use the Windows 7 DVD, so I had to do this using a USB flash drive.īelow are the steps I took to make this work. I originally had Mavericks running on it but before this exercise I wiped it clean and installed Yosemite on it. To start, my laptop is a Macbook, Aluminum, Late 2008 (MB467LL/A) with a busted optical drive (superdrive). I almost went as far as buying a replacement superdrive for the macbook, but at the end I finally was able to get Windows 7 onto the Macbook. Well, how wrong I was! I went through a whole day of head-scratching, temper-inducing, word-cussing, USB-swapping and machine-rebooting exercise of getting Windows installed in the bootcamp partition. The Chinese homework CD unfortunately only works in Windows so I had no choice!! I guess I could have taken other routes, like installing Windows in a VM or something, but I figure that Mac has this awesome tool called bootcamp, why not use that? Over the weekend I wanted to install Windows in a bootcamp partition so the kids can use it to do their Chinese homework. 
Installing Windows 7 on Macbook Late 2008
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