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Late-2013 rMBP able to install & boot Win8 using EFI?
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<blockquote data-quote="awj" data-source="post: 1553258" data-attributes="member: 297516"><p>Happy <em>Thanksgivukkah</em>! (Sadly, being in Europe, this means little to me.)</p><p></p><p>Despite posting those links, I don't want to go through the Windows-on-EFI installation using that manual process. For a start, it seems that non-Bootcamp installations have video driver problems. And it's not that I'm nervous about playing around with partitions and manual driver installations, but what I'm really hoping is that when presented with an ISO of Win8 (and its EFI installer), Bootcamp will know to install Win8 on an EFI partition rather than my having to force this through a byzantine series of steps.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure about a week ago I read a posting on a forum where people were going through those manual steps (and encountering NVidia driver-induced crashes) and someone had mentioned that they ignored those steps, installed Win8 via Bootcamp in the standard way, and when he checked the partition (using something like GParted) he found that Win8 was residing on an EFI partition and that it booted so much quicker. Unfortunately, despite crawling through my browser's history, I cannot find this page again.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm actually looking to do this on a brand-new rMBP, so when I try it there will be nothing on the "Macintosh" partition. I had expected that should something go wrong I could just load up recovery mode and start again, no? Does the recovery boot option reside on a drive partition or is it in the hardware? If the latter, then there's no point in cloning beforehand, right?</p><p></p><p>So to summarise, what I'm planning on doing is installing Win8 from an ISO on a thumb drive, using the standard Bootcamp procedure, in the hope that it installs as a standard, native EFI bootable partition.</p><p></p><p>[I've yet to buy the rMBP, so there won't be any immediate resolution to this.]</p><p></p><p>Again, thanks for your response.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="awj, post: 1553258, member: 297516"] Happy [I]Thanksgivukkah[/I]! (Sadly, being in Europe, this means little to me.) Despite posting those links, I don't want to go through the Windows-on-EFI installation using that manual process. For a start, it seems that non-Bootcamp installations have video driver problems. And it's not that I'm nervous about playing around with partitions and manual driver installations, but what I'm really hoping is that when presented with an ISO of Win8 (and its EFI installer), Bootcamp will know to install Win8 on an EFI partition rather than my having to force this through a byzantine series of steps. I'm sure about a week ago I read a posting on a forum where people were going through those manual steps (and encountering NVidia driver-induced crashes) and someone had mentioned that they ignored those steps, installed Win8 via Bootcamp in the standard way, and when he checked the partition (using something like GParted) he found that Win8 was residing on an EFI partition and that it booted so much quicker. Unfortunately, despite crawling through my browser's history, I cannot find this page again. I'm actually looking to do this on a brand-new rMBP, so when I try it there will be nothing on the "Macintosh" partition. I had expected that should something go wrong I could just load up recovery mode and start again, no? Does the recovery boot option reside on a drive partition or is it in the hardware? If the latter, then there's no point in cloning beforehand, right? So to summarise, what I'm planning on doing is installing Win8 from an ISO on a thumb drive, using the standard Bootcamp procedure, in the hope that it installs as a standard, native EFI bootable partition. [I've yet to buy the rMBP, so there won't be any immediate resolution to this.] Again, thanks for your response. [/QUOTE]
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