![]() Older Macs (at least 2006, some 2007 and maybe newer) will have trouble booting from USB drive in Legacy BIOS mode, whereas booting in UEFI mode works. There is a way to burn a DVD that will not trigger this. ![]() Other Macs will register the "1" key press but not the "Return" key so they will still get stuck there. On some Macs, pressing repeatedly or holding the "1" key and the "Return" key may help get past this message. Issue is mainly present with burnt Windows 7 and 8 DVD. Older Macs will not be able to boot some optical discs in Legacy BIOS mode and will get stuck on a "Select CD-ROM Boot Type:" message. Modern Linux distributions are not affected by this issue, they handle UGA properly, however they may be affected by another issue (VBIOS not loaded in EFI mode so some graphics drivers don't work properly). OpenCore's "GopPassThrough" does not solve this issue, although it is required to get OpenCore GUI to load. To confirm whether the machine has UGA or GOP available, install rEFInd, reboot and at the rEFInd screen go into About menu. Windows is only compatible with GOP, which is what can be found on all standard UEFI. Actually, Windows 10 installer will boot but there will be no display. Windows is not compatible with UGA,, so it cannot be installed in EFI mode on these machines. Older Macs (2008 and older? not sure) only have UGA EFI drivers available. On the Mac Pro you might be able to press the physical eject button of the DVD drive, although it is not available on the front panel. Either the installation will fail or the additional packs for this special edition won't be installed). Therefore, Windows "upgrade-only" discs cannot be used (as they require to insert the previous Windows version disc to allow installation), and Windows editions that came on multiple discs (such as Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005) cannot be installed properly either. ![]() As a result, it is not possible to swap discs during installation. It is not possible to eject the optical disc during the installation process by pressing on the "Eject" key of the keyboard. Issues Eject optical disk during installation WiFi works with drivers provided by Microsoft. Restoring to a system restore point taken before installing the driver package or resetting Windows 11 to factory (from recovery menu) is required.Īs a result the following features do not work on Windows 11: Also, uninstalling drivers from safe boot can help solving the first issue but not the second one. "WDF_VIOLATION" BSoD shortly after desktop appearsįor now there is no known solution to these issues.The Boot Camp drivers package is not compatible with Windows 11. Note that it will install an old version of NVidia drivers which can cause issues on Windows 10, so it has to be uninstalled before installing the newest version from Windows Update or NVidia website. The Boot Camp drivers package is designed for Windows 7 but it will also work on Windows 10, provided you enable compatibility mode on "Drivers/Apple/BootCamp64.msi" and run this file from an administrator PowerShell. Latest Boot Camp drivers package for this machine is ( ). ![]() This machine can boot Windows XP to Windows 11, however Boot Camp drivers don't work on Windows 11 (see below). Or perform pre-installation in Legacy BIOS mode from another machine.Use a DVD-ROM that does not trigger the "Select CD-ROM Boot Type:" bug.Seems to be affected by the Legacy BIOS USB boot bug. Windows cannot be installed in UEFI mode, only Legacy BIOS mode.Īffected by the "Select CD-ROM Boot Type:" bug (see "Select CD-ROM Boot Type:"), the workaround does not seem to work Quirks by model MacBook Pro 17" 2007 A1229 IssuesĮFI 1.x with UGA only, see EFI 1.x UGA/UEFI 2.x GOP. ![]()
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