iMac5,1 EFI Frozen on Boot Install
Hi guys,
First of all, thanks for all of the hard work from Pike, tiamo, and everyone else in the mix. I have had a lot of fun working with my old mac because of their effort to keep old machines alive.
In any case, I've had a lot of trouble trying to install Yosemite on my iMac5,1. I updated my iMac4,1 to the iMac5,1 with the firmware update. I have also installed a Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of ram, and a 128GB SSD.
The machine works and had Mountain Lion (10.8) installed on it as I managed to rig it up with SFOTT. Once I updated, it went dead (obviously). Then I came across this forum which had more information on the whole issue and what i had did wrong.
I have tried to create a boot disk myself, along side the one that is downloadable through the forum. The boot disk does the same thing in both scenarios: I can select the disk at start up, and once it gets to the Apple Logo, it seems like it freezes. Then it appears with a full progress bar below the logo. There is nothing after that.
This same issue occurs with both the black and classic boot efi mods. It also occurs, like i stated, with the downloadable, pre-made disk.
A similar issue occurs when I create the Yosemite disk with SFOTT. On boot, when I use the original tiamo EFI, there is a missing folder icon that flashes, surrounded by a black screen with a frozen underscore on the top left.
I have other Yosemite accessible Macs available. The iMac5,1 is accessible through Target Disk Mode as well.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to get this white devil rollin'. Thanks in advance.