The cirrus audio problem is complicated in EFI, see
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Win7 x64 booting natively via EFI (no BIOS emulation)
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Where is d3vi1's app???
I've already figured out part of the VGA problem with 
on startup.nsh and I've been able to install Windows 8 RTM on my MB 5,1 unattended, but this time I wanted to be able to actualy see the instalation instead of a blank screen! Or maybe, who knows, install Windows 8 without having to wipe the entire disk!
I've already figured out part of the VGA problem with 
Code:
mm 0010003E 1 ;PCI :8
mm 02000004 1 ;PCI :7https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/15553380/
check out this post, i found bug that cause my MBP to switch GPU.
check out this post, i found bug that cause my MBP to switch GPU.
Hey guys, I have installed windows 8 64 bit efi using your unattended install. Thanks it worked a treat. Once I left it to run for a while I was able to login via safemode. Has anyone got any closer to sorting out the intel HD 4000 driver issue. I have got my MacBook air 2012 working now by disabling the driver but the thunderbolt display will not work. Any ideas / suggestions
Luke
Luke
This problem is SOMEWHAT referenced in the Ubuntu and Windows tutorial. I believe the problem is posted here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/15483249/
The snippet you want to look for is:
W8 does not like way OSX diskutil formats EFI. I Think issue is "Diskutil starting block is 40" & "DISKPART starting block is 2048"
I had this same error when I attempted an install first. You should try reformatted with Win8 first, then install Lion and see if that works. I have NOT tried this, so take this with a grain of salt. I will try this weekend.
I am giving up on Windows 8. Hosed my entire install today.
What Mac are you trying to install on?
What version W8? I read somewhere Enterprise Version is limited on what you can do with it in deployment. I doubt installing with DISM would be issue. Maybe so....?
Did you use PE 4.0 from Win7 UEFI guide you made? I'm not 100%, 1st few attempts I had issue when using that PE 4 version of yours when trying different approach. After I updated to RTM ADK and made new PE 4.0 and switch to DISM. It finally work, at time I thought issue was imageX.
I've probably re-install Windows 8 Pro RTM x10 on my MBP 2011 using exact steps from guide I made. It works without issue, except Video Driver. Only install it once on Mac Pro 2010, there were no issue at all. I was able to see the install process, no driver were even needed!!! I went head and install BOOTCAMP, just to test it. After BOOTCAMP install, it reboots with all drivers working properly.
Windows 8 RTM ADK
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@mac-hacks -
my problem is the no audio after installing Windows 8/EFI mode...
I have a MacbookPro 13' early 2011.
You have any info for us on this matter? Seems that you know a lot here, maybe you can investigate our pb...? Also the new driver from CIRRUS..
CIRRUS LOGIC HD Audio Codec drivers 7.25.43.0 is no ware to be found
.Hey guys. Wanted to give you a quick update. I was experimenting pretty much all day today. I was able to install Windows 7 and Windows 8 using an EFI boot without any DVDs, using WinPE 4.0 that was linked in the Ubuntu tutorial. There were some problems though:
1. I still had to set my PC registers to get past the black screen in Windows 8
2. The WinPE 4.0 liveCD appears to allow the environment to know it is in EFI. I had no problems using the regular CDs.
3. Although I was able to use bootmgfw.efi, I Was not able to boot into Windows 7 AFTER I installed Windows 8.
4. I had accelerated Nvidia drivers the entire time (I have a GT120 )
5. Windows fonts are nice, Metro is not so nice.
My current set up is an EFI dual boot using Mountain Lion and Windows 7. I will most likely install Arch Linux later on. Linux has ALWAYS been easy booting from EFI.
I did not use rEFInd. I am still using my method of booting:
Power >> EFI Shell (which runs startup.nsh that modifies registers and kicks off grub.efi) >> Grub.efi >> OS
I installed OS X first. I then installed Windows by loading WinPE 4.0. The installers did NOT complain about EFI being on sector 40. They dropped the configs and efi boot files in the proper location. I am pretty happy I have Windows 7 with such ease now. If I Cannot figure out how to get Windows 8's bootloader to load Window 7, then I will just keep Windows 7 until 2019. I should probably notate that the BCD entry WAS created by Windows. Something happens in the reboot process that stops at CLASSPNP.SYS. I did not want to troubleshoot it further. These OSes all reside on ONE internal drive. I have my holy grail back.
1. I still had to set my PC registers to get past the black screen in Windows 8
2. The WinPE 4.0 liveCD appears to allow the environment to know it is in EFI. I had no problems using the regular CDs.
3. Although I was able to use bootmgfw.efi, I Was not able to boot into Windows 7 AFTER I installed Windows 8.
4. I had accelerated Nvidia drivers the entire time (I have a GT120
)5. Windows fonts are nice, Metro is not so nice.
My current set up is an EFI dual boot using Mountain Lion and Windows 7. I will most likely install Arch Linux later on. Linux has ALWAYS been easy booting from EFI.
I did not use rEFInd. I am still using my method of booting:
Power >> EFI Shell (which runs startup.nsh that modifies registers and kicks off grub.efi) >> Grub.efi >> OS
I installed OS X first. I then installed Windows by loading WinPE 4.0. The installers did NOT complain about EFI being on sector 40. They dropped the configs and efi boot files in the proper location. I am pretty happy I have Windows 7 with such ease now. If I Cannot figure out how to get Windows 8's bootloader to load Window 7, then I will just keep Windows 7 until 2019. I should probably notate that the BCD entry WAS created by Windows. Something happens in the reboot process that stops at CLASSPNP.SYS. I did not want to troubleshoot it further. These OSes all reside on ONE internal drive.
I have my holy grail back.@mac-hacks -
my problem is the no audio after installing Windows 8/EFI mode...
I have a MacbookPro 13' early 2011.
You have any info for us on this matter? Seems that you know a lot here, maybe you can investigate our pb...? Also the new driver from CIRRUS..
CIRRUS LOGIC HD Audio Codec drivers 7.25.43.0 is no ware to be found
Basically it's waiting game on Apple to release bootcamp update for W8. Or ATI to get there act together and fix issue with there drivers for W8 Intel GPU. Mac user are not only people having issue with ATI!!! I've tried ever trick in book i know of, nothing has work so far.... Except tweaking PCI -i in efi.shell, which I avoid. I need be-able to install Windows from deployment standpoint. I'm waiting on updated drivers from ATI before i tinker around with it anymore.
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Just to clarify, on starting block for boot sector. Why i made comment in Guide. Before i successfully use DISM. All previous attempts installing W8 error before, during, or after on my MBP if Diskutil was use to format EFI. Did not matter if i use UN-touch.iso formatted to DVD, USB, with or without slip-streaming drivers, or unattened.xml with only settings on Partition setup. Without being able to watch install process makes it even harder to find issue.
I remember when SATA 3 hit market, issue's SSD manufacturers were having. One issue had to do with alignment. If your using SSD, as i do for all my boot drives. Your alignment needs to be correct or it will cause issue like "BSOD", or "slow R/W speed". I think this is why Windows 8 error at some point when installing to SSD if EFI is formatted with OSX Diskutility. PC/Windows user never will see issue installing on PC due to alignment, since diskpart uses correct format. I think that's why a lot of Mac user are having issue even installing Windows 8 UEFI. Alignment is off, diskutil starting block is 40 and diskpart is 2048. Google and check with your SSD manufacturer to find correct alignment and more info on this if you interested ..... I'm not about to explain it. I will say this much and your on your own from here. If your SSD uses sandforce controller, which most SSD manufacturers use. It's known fact there controllers will cause issue i listed above if alignment is off. Except "W8 install error on Mac, this my opinion" In last several+ months, market is starting to see SSD manufacturers developing there own controllers or using new Marvell controller. I have not tested any of newer controllers, I'm not sure about them.
* Default starting block for Windows UEFI 7/8 is 2048.
* If your having issue installing Windows 8 UEFI on Mac then follow guide, 1st block for EFI partition is 2048 and format OSX & Windows partitions with "diskpart". You should not have any alignment issue keeping you from installing or running Windows 7/8 if your boot drive is on SSD.
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Is there a way to be sure that ATI is aware of this problem and that there is people waiting for a fix ? Where to post ?
I think we need to explain very precisely the problem to the good ATI service !
I'm sure there aware, feel free to email them. Just realize few things.
1st) Microsoft hasn't officially release Windows 8 RTM 9200 to Public. Either there going to be ton of updates or updated Final Build # for Public release in Oct.
2nd) ATI is now partner with AMD, has been for several years. More than likely why there dragging there feet when it comes to Intel drivers. Anything AMD can do to hurt Intel sells benefits them.
3rd) Apple Bootcamp drivers are probably at bottom of there list and least of there worries since Apple future Mac's are probably going to have Nvidia GPU in them.
Good luck if you want to try, be interesting to hear the BS excuse they give you. Be glad you have it working at all this early in game. Eventually ATI, Apple or some one will get it working. Patients is key, with any thing new in technical world....
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@ mac-hacks
I have a Macbook PRO 13'', i have removed my SUPERDRIVE and installed a SSD.... but how can I install Windows 7 without a SuperDrive..
Can you help me please? I know you have a lot of tutorials... but i need a tutorial for Win7...also no WMWARE etc... I would like to know if I can Install Win7 via EFI and install like before when I had a SUPER DRIVE
Thank you very much.
I have a Macbook PRO 13'', i have removed my SUPERDRIVE and installed a SSD
.... but how can I install Windows 7 without a SuperDrive..Can you help me please? I know you have a lot of tutorials... but i need a tutorial for Win7...also no WMWARE etc... I would like to know if I can Install Win7 via EFI and install like before when I had a SUPER DRIVE
Thank you very much.
@ mac-hacks
I have a Macbook PRO 13'', i have removed my SUPERDRIVE and installed a SSD
Can you help me please? I know you have a lot of tutorials... but i need a tutorial for Win7...also no WMWARE etc... I would like to know if I can Install Win7 via EFI and install like before when I had a SUPER DRIVE
Thank you very much.
You are going to have to do an install from USB. The guides on here should provide you some info.
Yes, but:
1. how should I prepare de USB key to install Win7...from a Windows PC or a I can do it from MAC
2. Tutorials ...are where?
Thanks for you kind help.
Here I had from AMD :
"Dear M. De Pecker,
Your service request : SR #{ticketno:[8200506994]} has been reviewed and updated.
Response and Service Request History:
We are unsure what you are asking about. EFI/UEFI is a low-level system firmware that is used as a replacement for BIOS. As such they dont need graphics drivers.
Below are the normal steps you should take to set up this feature and install your OS:
1. Set BIOS to UEFI/EFI bootmode, if available, some motherboards are only UEFI and dont emulate a traditional BIOS
2. Install Windows, Win7 or Win8 will auto-detect what type of BIOS you have and install in the correct mode
3. The hard drive gets partitioned up slightly different during the install, but thats the only difference in the Windows install
4. Once Windows is installed and running, install your drivers as normal, no special drivers are needed as its just normal standard Windows
If you have any doubts or questions, let us know.
In order to update this service request, please respond, leaving the service request reference intact.
Best regards,
Bernard
AMD Global Customer Care"
Maybe someone could make a technical answer for us (I will transmit it) ? At least it could not say they are not aware !
I need see what you wrote to them 1st. By there response you did not tell them it was Mac you were installing Windows 8. It's driver issue your having, it has nothing to do with EFI.
@ mac-hacks, regarding the Win8 sound issue on 64bit.
somaoen said:
"I've installed the 32bit of Win 8 RTM on both a white Macbook 2008 and a 2010 Macbook Pro with no fuss whatsoever. Drivers install fine, and everything works, including trackpad, sound and brightness hot keys. I had trouble with the drivers using the 64bit version (brightness and sound problems), but I haven't had any system freezes in over two weeks now. Using the activation workaround found on the bay too. "
so....we cannot make the 32 bit driver, work on 64?
somaoen said:
"I've installed the 32bit of Win 8 RTM on both a white Macbook 2008 and a 2010 Macbook Pro with no fuss whatsoever. Drivers install fine, and everything works, including trackpad, sound and brightness hot keys. I had trouble with the drivers using the 64bit version (brightness and sound problems), but I haven't had any system freezes in over two weeks now. Using the activation workaround found on the bay too. "
so....we cannot make the 32 bit driver, work on 64?
For me is not working to boot in 32bit EFI mode... i cannot not, install Win 8 32 bit
... can anyoane help? EFI mode - Winodws 8 32 bit...
Windows8 64 , works...
Soo? what should I do to have the 32bit working?
My mac is retina macbook pro.Hey there,
I'm playing with the Mac Book Pro Retina at the moment, and enjoy a nice triple boot Windows 8, OSX Lion and Scientific Linux 6.3 with a custom kernel based on the kernel-ml 3.5.2 from elrepo. Everything boots in native EFI, no grub/elilo in the way, with rEFInd boot manager. I'm writing this post to share my experience with you, as I greatly benefited from this thread and others' own experience during my install. At the end of this post, you'll find something I'm trying to fix, so don't hesitate to answer
Windows 8
No hack needed for the Windows 8 Release Preview (i.e. no need to slipstream drivers from bootcamp), just start the Windows EFI installer from the rEFInd (previously installed from Mac OS X) boot manager.
However, I had to boot a liveCD (System Rescue CD, Gentoo based
[Update 29/08] NVidia card works without poking any PCI register with latest Nvidia beta drivers 306.02 for Windows 8 64 bit
To note though, Windows 8 does not see my Nvidia card (and using the Beta drivers from Nvidia for Windows 8 x64 does not help), and was not recognizing a lot of peripherals like the Wifi card. After manually installing the drivers distributed with bootcam, I still have issues with the Audio card, the Nvidia card, brightness levels, "special" keys on the keyboard, and keyboard backlight. After installing the Intel drivers for the Intel chipset (distributed with bootcamp), Windows does not detect my external USB 3.0 SSD anymore (no worries with USB sticks though!).
[Update 29/08] Found this nice post on another board, supposed to make the trackpad and brightness work, I'll try this tomorrow.
Something important is to de-activate the Windows 8 fast boot if you're planing to boot Windows from rEFInd, otherwise Windows will refuse to boot and will start a Recovery of the system (which solves the issue at the cost of "unblessing" the rEFInd boot manager, just re-install it in Mac OS X if this happens to you to solve the issue).
Scientific Linux 6.3
For the Scientific Linux 6.3, I only miss the keyboard backlighting and brightness levels.
[EDIT]: I forgot to say that before running the liveDVD install, I've booted the System Rescue CD to modify the partition table (resize the windows so it does not take the whole place, create a few partitions for Linux like /, /home, swap and 2 NTFS partitions that I'll be using as temporary exchange partition and a Data partition for the Windows 8). You can use gparted from the liveCD to do so in a graphical environment.
For the installation from the liveDVD Scientific Linux, you'll need the option noapic. When the install is finished, impossible to boot it so I have, here again, used the liveCD System Rescue CD to chroot in the SL6.3 rootfs. From the chroot, you can add the elrepo repo to yum then install kernel-ml (3.5.2 as of writing this post), then copy the vmlinux and initrd from /boot to the EFI partition, and finally add a refind_linux.conf file containing the kernel comand line (for details on refind_linux.conf, see this link from the official rEFInd website) that you can copy from the grub configuration file. You'll also need to add the options rdblacklist=nouveau and noapic to boot the kernel without a panic (in console to start with).
At this stage, it is important to modify the inittab to boot in runlevel 3, until we've installed the Nvidia drivers. After this step, it should be possible to boot the SL6.3 in EFI with a 2880x1800 framebuffer
The Wifi drivers are working at this stage, but are missing the firmware for the Broadcom chipset. I've extracted it with fwcut (howto here) and you can download them directly from this link. You then just need to untar them in /lib/firmware/ and reboot. You Wifi card is now fully working. You can now download the latest Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website (304.37 as of today). Once those are installed, you'll need this line:
Option "UseDPLib" "off"
in your xorg.conf in the 'Section "Screen"' block. You can now modify your inittab to boot in runlevel 5. X should start without any issue with full graphic acceleration on the 650M
For the bluetooth, I've modified the kernel-ml SRPM spec file from elrepo to include this patch. It seems the applesmc driver for the sensors is not compatible with this Mac Book Pro version yet. A workaround is to apply this other patch. It does not fix the driver but prevents it from taking too much time at the kernel boot.
After reboting on your custom kernel, no major issue except screen brightness and keyboard backlighting. I'll try to fix those later on. See this thread for details specific to Linux on the Retina (can also be useful to backport things from Linux support in Windows 7/8 I guess, like this PCI poking madness).
[EDIT] Forgot to say that at each update of your kernel, the Nvidia installer will need to be re-run, and you'll need to copy again your vmlinuz/initrd file to your EFI partition.
Nvidia Card Windows 8
[Update 29/08] NVidia card works without poking any PCI register with latest Nvidia beta drivers 306.02 for Windows 8 64 bit
I've tried to understand the instructions in the post 459 but the pictures are not available anymore and it then becomes very hard to understand them (especially to find the address of the PCI bridge to which the Nvidia card is attached). If anyone has managed this step, that'd be nice to share the manoevre
From what I understand, we first need to find the address of the Nvidia card (00 01 00 00 on my Mac Book Pro Retina 15") by typing the command lspci -i -b in an EFI shell (you can use the Grub EFI shell given in post 459 to install it on your EFI partition).
Once we've identified this address, we need to know the PCI Bridge to which it is attached. If I understand correctly on the instructions, we need to re-run the command pci -i -b on every PCI Bridge we see. It seems to me there is an error here as pci -i -b does not accept any argument. We can however use the -s argument to do so: pci -i -b -s address (e.g. pci -i -b -s 00 00 01 00), which will return loads of information about the PCI Bridge, but nothing I could link to the VGA card.
[Update 28/08] As mark1234 kindly explained, the proper command to use on the PCI Bridge is pci -i XX XX XX -b and not pci -i -b -s XX XX XX XX.
I then thought that I could use the command lspci -v from the SL6.3 and see if I could find more information.
To do so, you first need to look for a line containing something like "VGA compatible controller" from the NVidia card (i.e. not the Intel!) and to take note of the addresses used by the card. Something like this on my MBPr:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fd5 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller)
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size 16M]When we've got those addresses (in bold/black), we need to find the bridge which gives access to this memory with the command:
Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
lspci -v | grep -i bridge
and look for the Bridge that contains the lines:
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) (prog-if 0 [Normal decode])
Memory behind bridge: c0000000-c10fffffOf course, you'll adapt those addresses with those from your card. The bridge covering the addresses used by the NVidia card (in bold/black) must be the one we need to enable with the EFI command mm in a EFI script (EFI Shell reference here, the mm command is described page 92).
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090000000-00000000a1ffffff
In bold/green are the respective address of the Nvidia card and the PCI Bridge (01:00.0 = 01 00 00 for the Nvidia card, and 00:01.0 = 00 01 00 for the PCI Bridge). So finally, with the two next EFI commands, I should be able to see the Nvidia card on Windows 8:
mm 0001003E 8 -PCI
mm 01000004 7 -PCI
Unfortunately, after trying those two commands on my EFI Shell and then booting Windows 8 does not help, and I still can't see the Nvidia card (neither the beta drivers from Nvidia). So if someone could tell me what's wrong in what I'm doing, that'd be great. In the meantime, I will verify that the register address 3E and 04 are correct, so as the values 8 and 7 as I haven't had the chance yet to look at the PCI spec.
One last note, I see on the lspci -v output on my SL6.3 that the mode fast-devsel is enabled, maybe something to add with the mm commands.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also if you know a way to make the Audio card work, don't hesitate to share, even if instructions are messy, I'll happily add another detailed post on how to do it once I get it working.
Windows 7 easier trick ?
I just wanted to share something that I haven't tried until the end, but that may work to install Windows 7 without having to slipstream the installer from Windows 8, so it might be worth trying. On my try with booting Windows 7 in EFI mode on the Retina MBP, it would crash when loading the driver for the SSD at the stage "Windows is loading files". If you have a Linux already installed on your Retina, you can install VMWare Workstation 9.0 and create a VM that gives full access to your SSD (/dev/sda) to your guest. Booting Windows 7 in EFI in this VM does not show the issue, and the installer is happy to kick in
To boot your guest in EFI mode, you'll need to edit the VMWare vmx file and add:
firmware = "efi"
The procedure to add a raw scsi disk to VMware is I believed well documented on the web so I'll skip this. When you start your VM, rEFInd should show up and let you chose the EFI installer from the Windows 7 installation DVD. Please let me if you tried until the end
Cheers,
Quentin Casasnovas
how did you make 306.02 nvidia driver works on EFI Booting Windows 8? I only got black screen after upgrade the nvidia drivers from orginal bootcamp nvidia driver.
Before to email us you have to answer some question like type of your computer ... Etc ; the recipient know wich computer I have.
Here the question I wrote : "Are you planning to support EFI mode for your drivers. I regularly check this thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/696523/ It seems that last Nvidia and Intel graphic drivers now support it but ATI/AMD drivers don't. It's important now with Windows 8. Kind regards"
Maybe I could return a "best" technical question ?
Win 7 setup stocks after restart on disk.sys
I was lucky to create a USB-stick with slipstreamed Windows 7 into Windows 8 setup, which installs fine till first reboot. Is there someone out there, who reached further progress.
Btw. I have a MacBook Pro unibody 17 inch Mid 2009 (MBP5.2) with nfoce MCP79 chipset and 9400M/9600M GT setup.
The Windows 8 RTM Enterprise setup works fine, beside NVidia 9600M GT shows error in device manager and for 9400M I couldn't find a suitable WHQL driver or a patched one.
Look forward to hear from you.
I was lucky to create a USB-stick with slipstreamed Windows 7 into Windows 8 setup, which installs fine till first reboot. Is there someone out there, who reached further progress.
Btw. I have a MacBook Pro unibody 17 inch Mid 2009 (MBP5.2) with nfoce MCP79 chipset and 9400M/9600M GT setup.
The Windows 8 RTM Enterprise setup works fine, beside NVidia 9600M GT shows error in device manager and for 9400M I couldn't find a suitable WHQL driver or a patched one.
Look forward to hear from you.