How to install OSX-Mavericks + Recovery + OSX-Catalina + Windows7/10 and make them all bootable on MacBook Pro 5,5
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1) Info: I was running OSX-Catalina and Windows-10 on my MacBook Pro 5,5 with 8 GB RAM and 250 GB SSD. Due to a RAM problem I had to format the hard disk and re-install OS's again. Currently, I have replaced the 250 GB SSD with a 500 GB HDD
2) Info: I have tried multiple times to install OSX-Mavericks + Recovery + OSX-Catalina + Windows-7/10 on to the MacBook but only 2 of the 3 OS's can be made bootable as the other OS partition becomes non bootable. As of now, OSX-Mavericks + Recovery + OSX-Catalina are working fine while Windows-7 says "No Bootable Device - Insert Boot Disk and Press Any Key". Windows-7 was installed through BootCamp on OSX-Mavericks
3) Info: Windows-7 was bootable until installing OSX-Catalina. Windows-7 shows up in "Start-up Disk" on OSX-Mavericks but does not show up while pressing "Option" key during start-up. This happened immediately after installing OSX-Catalina
4) Info: The output of "diskutil list" from OSX-Mavericks is as follows
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mavericks 43.9 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 379.4 GB disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 76.0 GB disk0s5
5) Info: The output of "diskutil list" from OSX-Catalina is as follows
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mavericks 43.9 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_APFS Container disk1 379.4 GB disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 76.0 GB disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +379.4 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s4
1: APFS Volume Catalina - Data 3.9 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 83.7 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 731.7 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Catalina 11.4 GB disk1s5
6) Info: The output of “sudo fdisk /dev/disk0” is as follows
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167]
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
7) Info: The output of “sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0” is as follows
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 85738984 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
86148624 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
87418160 740917968 4 GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
828336128 148436992 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120 15
976773135 32 Sec GPT table
976773167 1 Sec GPT header
8) Question-1: Why is Windows-7 partition not bootable after I installed OSX-Catalina ?
9) Question-2: How do I flag the Windows-7 partition as bootable using fdisk or gdisk or any other utility ? (Tried using gdisk, but it only provides option to work with "One to Three" partitions, while I have 5)
10) Question-3: If the answer to "Question-2" is "Not Possible", then what are the steps to install OSX-Mavericks + Recovery + OSX-Catalina + Windows-10 on MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid 2009)
Thank you for helping, in advance
Asked by Akuma
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Sep 21, 2021, 09:19 AM
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