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Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite
- Thread starter Mr. Zarniwoop
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Hi there; please excuse my lack of knowledge with regards to installing yosemite on a mac pro 1.1. Basically I'm pretty computer savy and am looking for confirmation of a proposed macpro 1.1 8 core upgrade path to yosemite.
I have brought a gtx 650 as I'm told it works out of the box in yosemite (no boot screen)
Basically I was going to use the prepatched usb image of yosemite available in this thread on Mega, restore this to a USB drive, boot it and install. Make sure the install works by booting with the old x1900 graphics card. Then replace out the x1900 graphics card with the GTX 650 and reboot? Is there a better way or is this the best method?
Is it unwise to boot to yosemite with the unsupported card first? Not sure there is another way around it.
I have brought a gtx 650 as I'm told it works out of the box in yosemite (no boot screen)
Basically I was going to use the prepatched usb image of yosemite available in this thread on Mega, restore this to a USB drive, boot it and install. Make sure the install works by booting with the old x1900 graphics card. Then replace out the x1900 graphics card with the GTX 650 and reboot? Is there a better way or is this the best method?
Is it unwise to boot to yosemite with the unsupported card first? Not sure there is another way around it.
It might not boot at all with the x1900xt. Booting with the 650 is fine. I never used a supported card.
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I have read it all... I have a imac running yosemite..could I use target disk mode to install yosemite on the mac pro? Is that a better solution? Is the patched yosemite installer on mega fully bootable and working? Just not sure on the best method and was hoping for some one to help who has done it on a similar system
any good guides on how to do that?...Haven't seen any...starting to think I should have got a genuine mac graphic card upgrade. Be alot less hassle...
How to do what?
If you are talking about installing with a non Mac GPU just do the same process as if it were a Mac card. Use System Preference/Target Disk to select the Installer partition/drive since you can't hold option at boot and select it. There really is no hassle besides no boot screen.
so i partion my mac pro hard drive. Install the yosemite installer on that. Target disk mode select the yosemite installer partion. Turn mac pro off, put in new gtx 650..reboot. It'll load into the installer and install yosemite? Sorry for being a muppet..
- Partition the Mac Pro HDD.
- Create the installer on the new 8GB partition.
- Shut it down and put it in target disk mode.
- Connect the iMac and boot from the installer partition.
- Install Yosemite on to the desired partition.
- Reboot the iMac to its normal Yosemite install keeping the Mac Pro connected in target disk mode.
- Replace the two boot.efi files
- Reboot and disconnect the Mac Pro.
I think that's it. I never used that method and just typing it from memory on my phone.
In case anyone is wondering...
... update to OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 was fine on my Mac Pro 1,1->2,1.
... update to OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 was fine on my Mac Pro 1,1->2,1.
Works fine on my MP 1,1 with PikeYoseFix.
I used the 1 GB delta(?) update via the App Store.
cDOCK
For those using cDock and have updated to 10.10.4 it'll stop working. Here's the workaround I found on the apps forum.
http://w0lfschild.github.io/pages/cdock_workaround.html
Cheers
For those using cDock and have updated to 10.10.4 it'll stop working. Here's the workaround I found on the apps forum.
http://w0lfschild.github.io/pages/cdock_workaround.html
Cheers
10.10.4 updates went fine with PikeYoseFix. Two 8-core 2,1s here. One booting from an SSD RAID. Smooth sailing. Thanks again gentleman. I'm still astounded that you've made this work at all, much less as easily it does for us end-users.
I have a weird situation. Mac Pro 1.1 pushed to 2.1 so octocore. Worked ok on 10.10.3 till hdd failed. Bought a ssd and re installed from usb stick 10.10 and boots great. Installed pikes script and apply update via apple update or via combo update .... Reboots twice and hangs. Tried several re installs with erasing disk but nothing works each time. Re read most and can't find any reason why whatever upgrade I'd do it breaks. Tried pram reset but doesn't help. Any lead where to look for eventual solution ? Even the 10.10.4 doesn't want to boot apple logo and small bar start to load and half way it hangs. Also manually looked via terminal if boot.efi was correctly injected and it is. Not sure what changed since my hdd died. Took out all other drives in case they would polite but that doesn't change a thing. Thanks for ideas.
I'm not entirely sure I understand your situation, but you might want to start your Mac from the Recovery HD partition or using another OS X (such as Lion) and select your SSD as the Startup Disk. Maybe it got "unblessed" somehow.
Sorry for my messy post. iPhone isn't the best keyboard;-)
I had a working 10.10.3 on a hdd. It died without notice so I install a fresh 10.10 via a usb stick I have (hennesie way). That works perfect on another hdd and on the new ssd I bought.
It boots perfect and I can use it. I did not migrate any data yet from my time machine.
It goes bad once I upgrade. Before upgrading I install the pike fix and boot several time to be sure it is active. I see via terminal it is indeed working via date.
I tried upgrading via App Store and via a combo update to 10.10.3. It installs but when it reboots it begins normal. I see the apple logo and below the progress bar till it stops about halfway. I did leave it about an hour invade it does some underground work but nope. It is like freezes. Though pointer is still act if...
Did do the re install several times but always ending this way. Will have a look later today what you mean by blessing.
Thanks
I had a working 10.10.3 on a hdd. It died without notice so I install a fresh 10.10 via a usb stick I have (hennesie way). That works perfect on another hdd and on the new ssd I bought.
It boots perfect and I can use it. I did not migrate any data yet from my time machine.
It goes bad once I upgrade. Before upgrading I install the pike fix and boot several time to be sure it is active. I see via terminal it is indeed working via date.
I tried upgrading via App Store and via a combo update to 10.10.3. It installs but when it reboots it begins normal. I see the apple logo and below the progress bar till it stops about halfway. I did leave it about an hour invade it does some underground work but nope. It is like freezes. Though pointer is still act if...
Did do the re install several times but always ending this way. Will have a look later today what you mean by blessing.
Thanks
(10.10.4) Same here; perfect upgrade! Trim activated with the new Apple command line (terminal):
sudo trimforce enable