MacOS – Installing Windows 10 on MacBook early 2008 without bootcamp – black screen blinking cursor

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I have tried to use the following method to install Windows 10 on my early 2008 Mac. Running OS X 10.7.5. Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB.

How do I get Windows 10 installed on my macbook pro (late 2008)

Following the instructions using 64bit version of the Windows 10 iso and having bless the partition etc, when the time comes to restart the machine to install Windows 10 from the boot DVD containing the .iso file I get the two DVD option (Windows and EFI). On selected Windows it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. It freezes on this and nothing happens. 

marks-macbook:~ markcollacott$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Mark's Macbook          1.2 TB     disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
4:       Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS                 753.6 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:                            J_CCSA_X64FRE_EN-US... *4.0 GB     disk1
/dev/disk2
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk2
1:                 DOS_FAT_32 NO NAME                 8.0 GB     disk2s1

marks-macbook:~ markcollacott$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: -1539437/4/63 [-387938128 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
        Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [      start -        size]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [          1 -      409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [     409640 - -1861551096] HFS+        
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [-1861141456 -     1269544] Darwin Boot 
*4: 0B 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [-1859870720 -  1471932416] Win95 FAT-32

marks-macbook:~ markcollacott$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6         
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  2433416200      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  2433825840     1269544      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  2435095384        1192         
  2435096576  1471932416      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  3907028992         143         
  3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
  3907029167           1         Sec GPT header

Is there something I can change or how might I get around this roadblock?

I have not used any Windows version prior. Screen size is 13".

Best Answer

Brother I'll give you some sincere advice- Any mac under 4gb ram and older than the 2012 model should stay away as far as possible from Windows 10. I have installed Windows 10 in more than 4 ways and have been devastated in every scenario cause my mac was slower than a snail every time. I have exactly the same mac as you. But if you insist, here's what I've done:

  1. Back up your Mac.
  2. Download tuxera 2015 (specific version)
  3. Open Disk Utility
  4. Create partition and name it Windows, formatted as tuxera ntfs (if this works forget step 1, if it doesn't you'll have to reinstall macOS on your mac again and start from step 2)
  5. Download Windows 10 .iso and mount it
  6. Copy all folders to the windows partition and label them red color
  7. After that you can install refit mac
  8. Open refit and copy EFI onto the Macintosh HD
  9. Open terminal and drag and drop refit folder in the terminal window and press enter. Write password and press enter.
  10. After that write another a code in terminal as follows: ./enable.sh
  11. Now you just restart and choose windows from refit boot menu

That's it, just go through the installation.

After that you have to install some app called drivethelife or something (i dont remember look it up) and install the drivers.

Restart in macOS and delete the color labeled folders from windows and if you want to delete refit just delete the EFI folder from Macintosh HD.

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