2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X El Capitan

[xabierot]

I follow the instructions on post ·585, on an external HD.
El Capitan boots fine and all seems to work. Then I make a carbon copy clone on the Macintosh HD (I have Yosemite on other partition) but when boots occurs that:

Any help ? I tried boot.efi attached on post @585 and from http://piker-alpha.github.io/macosxbootloader/
I have a MacPro 1,1 with ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Thanks in advance

(Sorry about my english)

 

[wwanthony]

I follow the instructions on post ·585, on an external HD.
El Capitan boots fine and all seems to work. Then I make a carbon copy clone on the Macintosh HD (I have Yosemite on other partition) but when boots occurs that:

Any help ? I tried boot.efi attached on post @585 and from http://piker-alpha.github.io/macosxbootloader/
I have a MacPro 1,1 with ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Thanks in advance

(Sorry about my english)

Do you have a CalDigit card installed....or more importantly the CalDigit Kexts?

 

[xabierot]

Do you have a CalDigit card installed....or more importantly the CalDigit Kexts?

I have no idea what a CalDigit card is. I suppose don't have it

 

[wwanthony]

I have no idea what a CalDigit card is. I suppose don't have it

Then you don't have one installed and thus don't have the drivers installed. I had a problem similar to yours and my problem were some drivers that were not compatible with El Capitan.

When I did a clean install El Capitan worked fine. If I tried to do an install over my Yosemite config, I got a kernel panic.

 

[DevilDante24]

Fixed...

 

[DevilDante24]

Fixed...

 

[dcloud45]

i have done another install of el capitan and it work ...with no problems so far ..this is my second one.

 

[xabierot]

Then you don't have one installed and thus don't have the drivers installed. I had a problem similar to yours and my problem were some drivers that were not compatible with El Capitan.

When I did a clean install El Capitan worked fine. If I tried to do an install over my Yosemite config, I got a kernel panic.

Doing a clean install and then recovery the user from a TimeMachine backup works ?

 

[yuser]

i have done another install of el capitan and it work ...with no problems so far ..this is my second one.

You are lucky! I went with my old SSD (after cloning back Yosemite) to a new iMac and installed El Capitan. On the iMac the setup worked and it also bootet El Capitan after the upgrade.

Went back to my Mac Pro 1.1, replaced boot.efi (tried both versions from piker-alpha) in both locations and also mounted the recovery partition and replaced it there.

No luck! Same thing again. Tried also to remove my USB bluetooth dongle, even removed the Inateck USB 3.0 card. It does not work, same kernel panik as seen in my last post with the attachment.

I think no El Capitan for me. The very last thing I could think of is to do a clean install without trying to upgrade from Yosemite.

Does anyone have another idea?

 

[MacVidCards]

People having trouble , please view from working OS and verify size of boot.efi.

 

[doalwa]

Hi guys,
just registered on this forum to let you guys know that thanks to your instructions I was able to get my aging MacPro 1.1 a new lease on life by upgrading to el Capitan.

I did the procedure by connecting a spare 500GB hard drive via USB to my rMBP running 10.11 and simply installing to the USB disk.
Afterwards, I popped the disk back into my Mac Pro, booted into Yosemite and copied Pike's boot.efi to the specified locations..rebooted into my brand new El Capitan install and everything is working just fine.

I'm transferring the contents of my Yosemite install using Migration assistant as we speak and plan to Carbon Copy clone my El Capitan install back to my primary hard drive, which is a 500GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD.

I'm assuming CCC will simply create a clone of the working El Capitan install and not try to fix the non-Apple provided boot.efi files, right?

And another thing: Is it to be expected that coming updates to El Capitan will break the boot.efi files so one would have to copy pike's EFI files back in place after each update?

 

[dcloud45]

You are lucky! I went with my old SSD (after cloning back Yosemite) to a new iMac and installed El Capitan. On the iMac the setup worked and it also bootet El Capitan after the upgrade.

Went back to my Mac Pro 1.1, replaced boot.efi (tried both versions from piker-alpha) in both locations and also mounted the recovery partition and replaced it there.

No luck! Same thing again. Tried also to remove my USB bluetooth dongle, even removed the Inateck USB 3.0 card. It does not work, same kernel panik as seen in my last post with the attachment.

I think no El Capitan for me. The very last thing I could think of is to do a clean install without trying to upgrade from Yosemite.

Does anyone have another idea?

wait how did you replaced the efi. Again?

You are lucky! I went with my old SSD (after cloning back Yosemite) to a new iMac and installed El Capitan. On the iMac the setup worked and it also bootet El Capitan after the upgrade.

Went back to my Mac Pro 1.1, replaced boot.efi (tried both versions from piker-alpha) in both locations and also mounted the recovery partition and replaced it there.

No luck! Same thing again. Tried also to remove my USB bluetooth dongle, even removed the Inateck USB 3.0 card. It does not work, same kernel panik as seen in my last post with the attachment.

I think no El Capitan for me. The very last thing I could think of is to do a clean install without trying to upgrade from Yosemite.

Does anyone have another idea?

don't use mac pro 1.1 to replace the efi. use your iMac . connect el cap to your iMac mounted as usb.

 

[yuser]

wait how did you replaced the efi. Again?

don't use mac pro 1.1 to replace the efi. use your iMac . connect el cap to your iMac mounted as usb.

In fact I did it on my Mac Pro. Booted into Yosemite (installed on another HDD) and replaced the files on the SSD. I can try it on the iMac but do you really think it makes a difference?

Thanks.

 

[Hendrik94]

And another thing: Is it to be expected that coming updates to El Capitan will break the boot.efi files so one would have to copy pike's EFI files back in place after each update?

Yes as usually

 

[splifingate]

You are lucky! I went with my old SSD (after cloning back Yosemite) to a new iMac and installed El Capitan. On the iMac the setup worked and it also bootet El Capitan after the upgrade.

Went back to my Mac Pro 1.1, replaced boot.efi (tried both versions from piker-alpha) in both locations and also mounted the recovery partition and replaced it there.

No luck! Same thing again. Tried also to remove my USB bluetooth dongle, even removed the Inateck USB 3.0 card. It does not work, same kernel panik as seen in my last post with the attachment.

I think no El Capitan for me. The very last thing I could think of is to do a clean install without trying to upgrade from Yosemite.

Does anyone have another idea?

Verify that /Volumes/{insert-your-installation-media-here}/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist is as the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string></string>
   <key>Kernel Cache</key>
   <string>System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Also, make sure that 'BaseSystem.chunklist' and 'BaseSystem.dmg' have been copied to the root of /Volumes/{insert-your-installation-media-here}

IIRC, it was one (or both) of these which allowed me to get-past the KP to a working install the first time I encountered such a situation.

btw, I create all my installers from scratch, and edit them (including the replacement of the boot.efi's) from a separate, working install on the same MacPro.

[edit]

changed '/Prelinkedkernels/' to '/PrelinkedKernels/'

[/edit]

 

[HAL2010]

Is the use of a external hard disk mandatory or can i use a USB thumb drive just as with Yosemite?

 

[jt_69.V]

Doing a clean install and then recovery the user from a TimeMachine backup works ?

Did you try it ? I have exactly the same error.

Thanks

 

[doalwa]

Verify that /Volumes/{insert-your-installation-media-here}/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist is as the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string></string>
   <key>Kernel Cache</key>
   <string>System/Library/Prelinkedkernels/prelinkedkernel</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Also, make sure that 'BaseSystem.chunklist' and 'BaseSystem.dmg' have been copied to the root of /Volumes/{insert-your-installation-media-here}

IIRC, it was one (or both) of these which allowed me to get-past the KP to a working install the first time I encountered such a situation.

btw, I create all my installers from scratch, and edit them (including the replacement of the boot.efi's) from a separate, working install on the same MacPro.

Mod this man up, folks! Had the same problem after cloning my working El Capitan using CCC to my SSD.

After editing the com.apple.Boot.plist file with the above posted contents all was fine and dandy...

Thanks a ton man!

 

[jt_69.V]

I did a clean install and now have a different type of KP (see image).

Note that this KP does not happen everytime. After one or two reboots, or sometimes on the first try El Capitan starts and seems to run smoothly.

Any idea ?

Thanks

 

[VAGDesign]

I did a clean install and now have a different type of KP (see image).

Note that this KP does not happen everytime. After one or two reboots, or sometimes on the first try El Capitan starts and seems to run smoothly.

Any idea ?

Thanks

I think it's a USB device. Try to boot 3-4 times with nothing else plugged on USB except Mouse/Keyboard. I had this kind ok KP when I forgot plugged the monitor's USB upstream cable connected with the old NEC based PCIe USB 3.0 card. I bought an Inateck KT4004 and since then, no KP with the plug connected.

I hope this helps.

 

[nick85]

another question to those who use the samsung SM951 PCIe ssd with an adapter in a mac pro 1.1/2.1

is the speed increase remarkable (daily use) in comparisson to an samsung evo 840 or 850 pro ssd.

the samsung SM951 should be around 700 MB read/write speed ( experience macvidcards ? )
the samsung evo 850 pro only has 250 MB read / write speed

the SM 951 is about 150 $ more than the evo 850 pro.

Which one would you suggest ?

 

[jt_69.V]

I think it's a USB device. Try to boot 3-4 times with nothing else plugged on USB except Mouse/Keyboard. I had this kind ok KP when I forgot plugged the monitor's USB upstream cable connected with the old NEC based PCIe USB 3.0 card. I bought an Inateck KT4004 and since then, no KP with the plug connected.

Thanks, but the KP happens even with nothing connected to USB ports.

 

[jt_69.V]

I found the culprit: an ORICO PFU3-2P USB 3.0 PCI-e card. After removing it, KP disappeared and (icing on the cake) it also solved my problems with a Logitech Anywhere MX mouse that was completely unusable after El Capitan upgrade (no scroll and jerky movements). I just hope ORICO will be able to fix the problem, as I was quite happy with the USB 3 ports of this card.

 

[VAGDesign]

Until then, either use the built in USB ports or go buy Inateck KT4004 that is on 30% sale from Amazon.co.uk.
The other good about this card is that doesn't requires extra power

 

[HAL2010]

I've been looking at the Inateck 4004 but on the Amazon website it clearly states that it's supported until 10.9.5. Does it work with Yosemite and El Capitan?