“No bootable device — insert boot disk and press any key” when trying to install Windows on my late 2009 iMac

Question

OS X is 10.6.3. I create the partition with Boot Camp, insert the Windows 7 DVD, reboot, and that's what I get. I'm at loss.

When I press alt/option to bring up the boot disk selection screen, the Boot Camp partition isn't an option. I don't know if this is normal or an indication something's not quite right.

Answer 1

It was the disc format. The Finder burns discs in HFS+. I got Burn and burnt it in UDF and it worked.

Answer 2

I ran into this too - you get when burning the disc from MacOS - burn it using the Burn tool mentioned above, or use a windows ISO burning program.