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

[Ant3000]

at this end I get this structure...
bash: cd: /Users/brianrolfe/Desktop/pikify3.1

not this...
bash: cd: /Users/brianrolfe/Users/brianrolfe/Downloads/pikify3.1: No such file or directory

Others with more knowledge of terminal may be able to give more info on this. It obviously says desktop at my end as this is where I have Pikify3.1 This line was created by dragging and dropping the Pikify folder as per rthpjm's instructions.
[doublepost=1452347624][/doublepost]Have you tried this way...

OR this is a Mac with drag 'n' drop after all

in the Terminal type cd followed by a space, then from the Finder drag n drop the pikify3.1 folder onto the Terminal.
You should now have on the command line
Code:
cd /Users/[yourloginname]/[path_to]/pikify3.1

 

[brianr66]

Did you cd to the directory that actually contains extracted ./createpikeinstallmedia in it?

Last login: Fri Jan  8 22:42:35 on console
Wojteks-Mac-Pro:~ wojtek$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# cd /Users/wojtek/Desktop/El\ Capitan\ -\ pikify3.1
bash-3.2# ls
.DS_Store        OSInstall.collection    boot_black_3_1.efi    bootbase.efi        missing-fonts.tgz
Boot64.v3.mpkg        boot.efi        boot_grey_3_1.efi    createpikeinstallmedia    pikify.pkg
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia

    Usage ./createpikeinstallmedia /Volume/your_volume

        WARNING: the volume you specify will be erased!

        Make sure you provide the correct path to the volume...

bash-3.2#

I did yes.

 

[hwojtek]

Could you please execute "ls" command in this directory and post here the output in [code ] [ /code] format?

EDIT: OK, I've seen you did it already.
So now two things: first, I assume it has been asked 10s of times, but please make sure you have "install Mac OS El Capitan.app" in your Applications.
Now, please create a new administrator user on your Mac, copy the pikify folder to your USB stick, log out, log on to your new account, copy the pikify folder off the USB stick to the desktop, open the terminal, follow the instructions, report back.

 

[brianr66]

Could you please execute "ls" command in this directory and post here the output in [code ] [ /code] format?

EDIT: OK, I've seen you did it already.
So now two things: first, I assume it has been asked 10s of times, but please make sure you have "install Mac OS El Capitan.app" in your Applications.
Now, please create a new administrator user on your Mac, copy the pikify folder to your USB stick, log out, log on to your new account, copy the pikify folder off the USB stick to the desktop, open the terminal, follow the instructions, report back.

Well I don't understand the 'why' but thanks so much, script ran to completion!!

 

[rthpjm]

bash-3.2# cd ~/Users/brianrolfe/Downloads/pikify3.1

bash: cd: /Users/brianrolfe/Users/brianrolfe/Downloads/pikify3.1: No such file or directory

bash-3.2#

Hi Brian,

I know you have it sorted now, but I thought you might like to know what went wrong initially....

In most UNIX flavours, Mac OS X included, the character ~ expands to mean "my home directory", or ~user will expand to the home directory of "user". When you issue the sudo command you are changing the effective user from yourself to the root user. My instructions will typically use the format ~user to ensure specificity.
However, on Mac OS X the sudo command (sudo -s) doesn't change the expansion of ~ on its own, so it will expand to the home directory of the underlying user. On Mac OS X, a user's home directory is /Users/user, therefore if you are logged in as brianrolfe:

cd ~
cd ~brianrolfe
cd /Users/brianrolfe

Are all correct, and are all equivalent.

If you take a close at what you typed (and posted so that we can see), you combined ~ with /Users/brianrolfe, you needed one or the other but not both. Hopefully you can see from the explanation that what you typed expanded to /Users/brianrolfe/Users/brianrolfe.... Which is exactly what the shell reported back to you....

 

[brianr66]

Hi Brian,

I know you have it sort now, but I thought you might like to know what went wrong initially....

Hi! Thanks for the explanation, makes sense now. I don't really use terminal as a rule so it's a little confusing but I'm happy to say I now have a smooth running clean install of El Cap on my SSD thanks to you Piker and those who've helped me with my terminal challenges

 

[fabounio]

Plop alls !
My El Capitan Mac Pro 1.1 / 12gb ram works like a charm since 1 upgraded it last week.
it has more than 7 days uptime, without any crash / reboot or else.
i did a yosemite upgrade directly, using pikify.

My Memory chips are those from HP G5 servers. i had to remove original 512 mb chips since i upgraded to Mavericks.
it seems that Memory chips don't like to be of different kinds/manufacturer, i had many fan issues (sometimes blowing over 3000 rpm, instead of 600 rep)
seems that noise of fans in Mac Pro, depends a lot of memory chips.
listât pro showed me 55-60° celsius with original Apple chips, now with those hp ram, it indicates 75-80 °. the heatsink are not the same.

Yes, it worth upgrading. Mine boots in 20 seconds (from chime to desktop), using a Crucial SSD MX100.
...but i don't boot it often, really... didn't dit it since 1 st january.

BigMac:~ fabx$ uptime
11:32 up 7 days, 23:42, 2 users, load averages: 1,38 1,28 1,26

 

[jamgold]

I have had my MacPro1,1 running with El Capitanoff an internal SSD for a while now. But since last week it suddenly does not boot off the SSD anymore. Since I have an un-flashed NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 I can not see what is going on during boot. I checked the SSD with Disk Utility and it is fine. When booting off a secondary (spindle) HD, I can access the SSD. When ripping it out and hooking it up to a MacBook Pro I can boot off of the SSD.

When in the MacPro the boot seems to cycle because I can see the USB lights of peripherals blink.

The working El Capitan install on the HD and the SSD have the same boot.efi

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel restricted,uchg 316416 Jan 9 20:53 System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel restricted 316416 Jan 9 20:55 usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi

Does anybody have an idea how to troubleshoot this, short of buying a new Graphics Card?

 

[Ant3000]

Did you update El Capitan or have it automatically update just before this issue? Just wondered if it was this that had broken it. If it will boot a supported Mac but not your 1.1 I would think it is the boot.efi that is most likely culprit. There is a post on here mentioning the file size of the original and the "Piked" versions as this is an easy way to check which version you have.

 

[jamgold]

Did you update El Capitan or have it automatically update just before this issue? Just wondered if it was this that had broken it. If it will boot a supported Mac but not your 1.1 I would think it is the boot.efi that is most likely culprit. There is a post on here mentioning the file size of the original and the "Piked" versions as this is an easy way to check which version you have.

I checked, the boot.efi files are correct. Right now I am suspecting it has something to do with csrutil, because the drive now doesn't boot on my MacBookPro either and when I try to bless the drive it gives

Setting EFI NVRAM:

efi-boot-device='<array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>D2389BC2-FB3C-43FB-A6DD-D50A3D941171</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk1s2</string></dict></array>'

Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc

 

[pgrif]

I checked, the boot.efi files are correct. Right now I am suspecting it has something to do with csrutil, because the drive now doesn't boot on my MacBookPro either and when I try to bless the drive it gives

Setting EFI NVRAM:

efi-boot-device='<array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>D2389BC2-FB3C-43FB-A6DD-D50A3D941171</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk1s2</string></dict></array>'

Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc

 

[rthpjm]

I checked, the boot.efi files are correct. Right now I am suspecting it has something to do with csrutil, because the drive now doesn't boot on my MacBookPro either and when I try to bless the drive it gives

Setting EFI NVRAM:

efi-boot-device='<array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>D2389BC2-FB3C-43FB-A6DD-D50A3D941171</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk1s2</string></dict></array>'

Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc

Hello jamgold,

When SIP is enabled, you cannot write to the NVRAM. That's another new feature for SIP!!

You can however read from NVRAM.

Let us see if the troublesome drive is correctly blessed.

bless --info /Volumes/your-troublesome-disk-main-OS-volume

It should return a line with the CoreServices boot.efi.

If not, then you need to boot from a non-SIP Mac OS X drive, perhaps the Recovery HD or Yosemite...
Then bless the drive

bless --folder /Volumes/your-troublesome-disk-main-OS-volume/System/Library/CoreServices --file /Volumes/your-troublesome-disk-main-OS-volume/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

Since you have observed what appears to be a loop at boot, try resetting the PRAM.

The other possibility is to get a hold of a DVI-VGA adaptor, hook up a VGA screen. If you have one or more DVI-I ports on your gfx card, then one of them should be the last-resort video output, you should be able to then see the boot screens.

I hope that helps...

 

[jamgold]

Hello jamgold,

When SIP is enabled, you cannot write to the NVRAM. That's another new feature for SIP!!

You can however read from NVRAM.

Let us see if the troublesome drive is correctly blessed.

bless --info /Volumes/your-troublesome-disk-main-OS-volume

It should return a line with the CoreServices boot.efi.

If not, then you need to boot from a non-SIP Mac OS X drive, perhaps the Recovery HD or Yosemite...
Then bless the drive

bless --folder /Volumes/your-troublesome-disk-main-OS-volume/System/Library/CoreServices --file /Volumes/your-troublesome-disk-main-OS-volume/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

Since you have observed what appears to be a loop at boot, try resetting the PRAM.

The other possibility is to get a hold of a DVI-VGA adaptor, hook up a VGA screen. If you have one or more DVI-I ports on your gfx card, then one of them should be the last-resort video output, you should be able to then see the boot screens.

I hope that helps...

Thank you, I figured that out and my SSD is back to bootable. What I am trying to find out now is how my SSD turned unbootable after months of proper operation and reboots.

My suspicion right now is on

/usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs --volume /

which I read on http://osxdaily.com/2015/11/04/verify-repair-permissions-mac-os-x/

 

[wolf1734]

Last login: Tue Jan 12 16:06:19 on console
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# cd ~wolf/Downloads/pikify3.1
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia/Volumes/Untitled
bash: ./createpikeinstallmedia/Volumes/Untitled: Not a directory
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia /Volumes/Untitled

Cannot find copy of Apple's Install OS X El Capitan application in your Applications folder.
Please use the App Store to download a copy...



bash-3.2#

Good evening
here is what says the terminal when I want created an usb of installation nevertheless " Install OS X El Capitan is in my file(case) application I does not understand(include) if somebody can help me thank you.
Excused my very bad English

 

[peterc18st]

Just an update.

Got a ssd and ati 5770 mac edition and installed on an 2,1 with 16GB of ram.
The install was smooth. El Capitan is running fine on the Mac Pro but jesus is it a energy beast. My APC went from 20% energy utilization to 88%. Comparison from Macbook Pro retina late 2013 to Mac Pro 2,1.

 

[Perza_A]

Hello friends,

I did the USB install thumbdrive for OSX El Capitan with pikify3.1v8 Everything went well and smoothly no errors at all, until I tried to install the actual upgrade into my MP1.1, by double clicking the only thing I can see in that thumb drive; The OSX Capitan Installer...

I'm ending up to the error "This version of OSX cannot be installed into this Computer".. To be clear, I was trying to execute the update inside existing Yosemite 10.10.5 installation. Straight in running GUI. Perhaps I'm just doing it wrong, my apologies for my stupidity- but could you guys give me some advice, please?! I'm lacking the appropriate boot-compatible graphics right at the moment, so I would prefer a method, which could be started in running OSX.

Perza

 

[chackett]

Last login: Tue Jan 12 16:06:19 on console
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# cd ~wolf/Downloads/pikify3.1
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia/Volumes/Untitled
bash: ./createpikeinstallmedia/Volumes/Untitled: Not a directory
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia /Volumes/Untitled

Cannot find copy of Apple's Install OS X El Capitan application in your Applications folder.
Please use the App Store to download a copy...



bash-3.2#

Good evening
here is what says the terminal when I want created an usb of installation nevertheless " Install OS X El Capitan is in my file(case) application I does not understand(include) if somebody can help me thank you.
Excused my very bad English

There appear to be several errors in the above: first, remove "wolf" from the cd command argument (use "cd ~/Downloads.pikify3.1); second, put a space in between "./createpikeinstallmedia" and "/Volumes/Untitled" in the second line. And the Untitled volume already exists, and is formatted as JHFS+ with a GUID partition map, correct?

If those were just typos in your post, then I'm not sure what's going on; but if they weren't typos in your post, then try fixing those and let us know what happens.

 

[F1Mac]

Last login: Tue Jan 12 16:06:19 on console
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# cd ~wolf/Downloads/pikify3.1
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia/Volumes/Untitled
bash: ./createpikeinstallmedia/Volumes/Untitled: Not a directory
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia /Volumes/Untitled

Cannot find copy of Apple's Install OS X El Capitan application in your Applications folder.
Please use the App Store to download a copy...

Do you have the El Capitan installer somewhere on your drive?

 

[wolf1734]

Good evening morpheo
I have install BONE x EL capitan in application and it is also in the launchpad continuation(suite) for the download of on Apple
[doublepost=1452626392][/doublepost]

Good evening morpheo
I have install OS x EL capitan in application and it is also in the launchpad continuation(suite) for the download of on Apple

[doublepost=1452626610][/doublepost]Good evening chackett
can you write me the exact command(order) which I have to write in the terminal thank you

 

[rthpjm]

Cannot find copy of Apple's Install OS X El Capitan application in your Applications folder.
Please use the App Store to download a copy...

Hello wolf

Please use a terminal with the following command

ls -l /Applications

 

[wolf1734]

Chackett Here is a try(essay) with error correct version in line of the termial but it does not work


Last login: Tue Jan 12 16:22:10 on ttys000
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# cd ~/Downloads/pikify3.1
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia /Volumes/Untitled

Cannot find copy of Apple's Install OS X El Capitan application in your Applications folder.

 

[F1Mac]

Chackett Here is a try(essay) with error correct version in line of the termial but it does not work


Last login: Tue Jan 12 16:22:10 on ttys000
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# cd ~/Downloads/pikify3.1
bash-3.2# ./createpikeinstallmedia /Volumes/Untitled

Cannot find copy of Apple's Install OS X El Capitan application in your Applications folder.

Do you see "Install OS X El Capitan" in your Applications folder? Quickly check by following rthpjm's suggestion (ls -l /Applications)

 

[wolf1734]

Good evening rthpjm
the command(order) I bring in her(it) has which moment in the terminal.
Thank you
[doublepost=1452629778][/doublepost]Last login: Tue Jan 12 20:48:19 on ttys000
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ ls -l / Applications
/:
total 46
drwxrwxr-x+ 58 root admin 1972 12 jan 16:16 Applications
drwxr-xr-x+ 62 root wheel 2108 22 oct 00:53 Library
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 22 aoû 23:35 Network
drwx------ 2 wolf staff 68 2 jan 17:05 OS X Install Data
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 136 11 déc 08:00 System
drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 13 déc 10:13 Users
drwxrwxrwt@ 10 root admin 340 12 jan 16:23 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x@ 39 root wheel 1326 11 déc 08:00 bin
drwxrwxr-t@ 2 root admin 68 22 aoû 23:35 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 4656 12 jan 16:05 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 21 oct 22:14 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 12 jan 16:05 home
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 313 23 aoû 04:35 installer.failurerequests
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 12 jan 16:05 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 21 oct 22:15 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 59 root wheel 2006 11 déc 08:00 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 21 oct 22:14 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root wheel 408 21 oct 22:14 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 21 oct 22:14 var -> private/var

Applications:
total 0
drwx------@ 5 wolf staff 170 3 jan 12:37 Chrome Apps.localized
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$

Morpheo The command(order) of rthpjm entered the terminal here is the result(profit)

 

[F1Mac]

Good evening rthpjm
the command(order) I bring in her(it) has which moment in the terminal.
Thank you
[doublepost=1452629778][/doublepost]Last login: Tue Jan 12 20:48:19 on ttys000
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$ ls -l / Applications
/:
total 46
drwxrwxr-x+ 58 root admin 1972 12 jan 16:16 Applications
drwxr-xr-x+ 62 root wheel 2108 22 oct 00:53 Library
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 22 aoû 23:35 Network
drwx------ 2 wolf staff 68 2 jan 17:05 OS X Install Data
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 136 11 déc 08:00 System
drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 13 déc 10:13 Users
drwxrwxrwt@ 10 root admin 340 12 jan 16:23 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x@ 39 root wheel 1326 11 déc 08:00 bin
drwxrwxr-t@ 2 root admin 68 22 aoû 23:35 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 4656 12 jan 16:05 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 21 oct 22:14 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 12 jan 16:05 home
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 313 23 aoû 04:35 installer.failurerequests
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 12 jan 16:05 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 21 oct 22:15 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 59 root wheel 2006 11 déc 08:00 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 21 oct 22:14 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root wheel 408 21 oct 22:14 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 21 oct 22:14 var -> private/var

Applications:
total 0
drwx------@ 5 wolf staff 170 3 jan 12:37 Chrome Apps.localized
Wolf-Mac-Pro:~ wolf$

Morpheo The command(order) of rthpjm entered the terminal here is the result(profit)

You entered the wrong command: there's no space between the slash and Applications. Copy and paste that in your terminal:

ls -l /Applications

If you don't see "install OS X El Capitan" listed, then you need to either download the installer or locate the installer on your drive and move it to your Applications folder, then createinstallmedia will find it.

 

[wolf1734]

In the terminal I do not have to install(settle) bone x el capitan but I have him(it) in the launchpad and I do not know how to put him(it) in the file(case) application