Make sure that boot.fi is the modded one in both spots and repair permissions.
not much else you can do beside start over
not much else you can do beside start over
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Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite
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Ok, this is the second USB i've made and it doesnt boot past any form of Apple screen at all. What the hell is wrong? These are the same drives I used when I originally set this up.
EDIT: verbose boot yields its stuck on "root device uuid is (numbers)" Hm.
On another USB drive, it eventually kernal panics.
I'm so frustrated right now its not even funny. I rebooted my mac and now its not booting back on the desktop. Everything was working fine. I've been on 10.10.2. Ive rebooted successfully many times and shut down with no problem. Right now I was able to get into bootcamp.
My main issue is I can't actually see whats going on. I just have a 570GTX in here so no boot screens. Does anyone have a spare card laying around I can buy or borrow(i'll pay shipping). I dont know what else to do. I dont want to put anymore money in this then i have too.
This sucks
My main issue is I can't actually see whats going on. I just have a 570GTX in here so no boot screens. Does anyone have a spare card laying around I can buy or borrow(i'll pay shipping). I dont know what else to do. I dont want to put anymore money in this then i have too.
This sucks
I'm having problems myself so I cant ship my card, now mine wont go to the option screen, only the grey apple oneI'm so frustrated right now its not even funny. I rebooted my mac and now its not booting back on the desktop. Everything was working fine. I've been on 10.10.2. Ive rebooted successfully many times and shut down with no problem. Right now I was able to get into bootcamp.
My main issue is I can't actually see whats going on. I just have a 570GTX in here so no boot screens. Does anyone have a spare card laying around I can buy or borrow(i'll pay shipping). I dont know what else to do. I dont want to put anymore money in this then i have too.
This sucks
Just did, about to do it again. Why is it doing this?
EDIT: got it to the option menu, but when I select the THIRD drive I've made, it goes to the black boot screen for about 4 seconds then to the grey, traditional one.
EDIT 2: the third drive I made (partition on a working, internal drive) doesn't work, stuck on the stupid root uuid. What the HELL?
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The waiting for root device is typically a USB issue so not sure why it is happening when using an internal drive. If you haven't already try other USB ports.
Are you 100% positive you followed ALL of the steps to make the USB drive? Even though I have done it many many times I still sometimes forget steps and have to look back at the guide I put together.
Unfortunately I don't have a working Mac Pro to be able to test anything on and when it was working I didn't have any issues installing, ever.
Your guide to the SFOTT? I'll double check it, but I think I'm good. I'll try the back USB. And its not waiting for root device, its before the kexts load, its the part where the text is centered and it shows the root device uuid.
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My guide isn't specifically SFOTT, it is the manual method of creating the install USB. It is linked in the initial post of this thread.
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Can you boot in safe mode by holding shift after the boot chime? If this is a cache issue, booting in safe mode will ignore kernel cache.
Ok, I'll take a look at it and make one manually. I just tried safe boot and still same issue.
I also tried reblessing my old drive (the boot.efi in the i386 folder, right?) nope
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url to the 'report' of the boot failure after booting back into Lion: http://pastebin.com/u4Ye38W0
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Whats really killing me is that I got a 3TB drive for the mac that Windows 7 wont recognize.
I cant win.
It should but there is only one way to find out. Be sure you know what you are doing though incase there is a problem. I do know one person who tried the beta on a 1,1 but I don't think he is still running it.
I have installed nearly all the beta of 10.10.3 on my Mac Pro rev 1,1 without problem.
If you have been following this thread then you should have installed the PikeYoseFix which should eliminate any boot.efi updates.
10.10.3 DOES replace the boot.efi in the /usr/standalone/i386/ folder so PLEASE make sure you have installed the PikeYoseFix.
Attached is a complete file list for the update.
Attached is a complete file list for the update.
That works as long as you have another machine available to replace the boot.efi files after you update because you will not be able to boot anymore on the Mac Pro 1,1/2,1.