Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite

[MacTroy]

Simple update on my RAID 1 array, both on my Xserve and my Mac Pro. Thanks.

Hey, NOTNICE - I've also got an Xserve1,1 that I'm toying with trying to upgrade to Yosemite. It's a dual 2.66 with 20GB RAM, and (sadly) a dead mezzanine card. I stuck a card into Slot 2 from an old Mac Pro (Apple NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT) to get by when the mezzanine card died last year.

My question for you is, did you ever come up with a workable PCIe graphics card solution? This is a headless server, so only very rarely would I need to VNC in to work on it. I'd just really like to get another year out of it, and would much prefer to have a functional, modern OS X that's still being patched, even if my occasional VNC sessions are painfully slow.

 

[bidouilleur]

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.

ok back home now with a normal keyboard
just tested the blessing of de coreservices directory and updated, still no go.
Then started verbose mode and it went all true till logo and progress bar disappear ... and beachballing ...
hard reboot, it boots, reboots and then we go again for another round beachballing after logo and progress bar disappear
Basically it can go past first routines and when it should present login screen it hangs ....
I really don't understand .... I didn't change a single hardware part except kick out the dead HDD and install an SSD ...
Am again installing the basic yosemite on the SSD.
That works each time like a charm ... guess I'll try to migrate my data on to that and stay that way, no more upgrades on this system ... EOL :-(

 

[NOTNlCE]

Hey, NOTNICE - I've also got an Xserve1,1 that I'm toying with trying to upgrade to Yosemite. It's a dual 2.66 with 20GB RAM, and (sadly) a dead mezzanine card. I stuck a card into Slot 2 from an old Mac Pro (Apple NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT) to get by when the mezzanine card died last year.

My question for you is, did you ever come up with a workable PCIe graphics card solution? This is a headless server, so only very rarely would I need to VNC in to work on it. I'd just really like to get another year out of it, and would much prefer to have a functional, modern OS X that's still being patched, even if my occasional VNC sessions are painfully slow.

On mine, I run a small PCIe card, but it must be attached to a monitor in order to register the card and provide graphics acceleration. I've used both a GeForce 405 and a Radeon 6450 in mine, though they were temperamental for a while. I just sit a small 4:3 monitor on top plugged in via DVI. Easy fix.

 

[yassi]

10.10.4 running on MP1.1

One strange issue i Have is with the System Profiler, the text in the categories or totally mixed, scrambled, unreadable
See screenshots

 

[NOTNlCE]

10.10.4 running on MP1.1

One strange issue i Have is with the System Profiler, the text in the categories or totally mixed, scrambled, unreadable
See screenshots

View attachment 565560 View attachment 565561

THIS has been happening to me on every single machine I have running Yosemite, whether it be a hack, a real Mac, or with the boot.efi mod. I think it's just bad coding in System Profiler.

 

[Hennesie2000]

THIS has been happening to me on every single machine I have running Yosemite, whether it be a hack, a real Mac, or with the boot.efi mod. I think it's just bad coding in System Profiler.

I've never had this issue with Yosemite on two hackintoshes, a Mac Pro and two MacBook Pros.

 

[666sheep]

THIS has been happening to me on every single machine I have running Yosemite, whether it be a hack, a real Mac, or with the boot.efi mod. I think it's just bad coding in System Profiler.

This. I've seen it a few times.
Drag the window corner to make it a bit wider and all will be displayed as it should.

 

[Kuzbad]

I have a MacPro 1,1 that's been running Yosemite for several months now. I replaced the stock ATI x1900XT graphics card with a generic GT640 when the ATI card died, so I don't see any graphic output until the desktop shows up. This can make debugging startup problems difficult!

This post is just in case anybody else finds themselves in the same boat I was in.

Today I upgraded from 10.10.1 to 10.10.4 today and forgot to preserve my boot.efi. I was able to fix it by doing this:

1) I took the boot SSD out of my MacPro and put it in another MacPro that's still running Snow Leopard.
2) I download PikeYoseFix from post 2166 of this thread.
3) I extracted the pkg file ("xar -xf archive.pkg") and extracted the contents from the Payload file ("cat Payload | gunzip -dc | cpio -i")
4) I copied the boot.efi from the archive to the two locations on the mounted SSD:

sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/mydrive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
sudo cp boot.efi.pike /Volumes/mydrive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
sudo cp boot.efi.pike /Volumes/mydrive/usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
sudo chflags uchg /Volumes/mydrive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

5) After putting the SSD back in my MacPro 1,1, the computer would unfortunately still not boot. I could tell it wasn't even starting the boot process because if I pressed the power button, it powered off instantly (no waiting for a safe shutdown or anything like that).

6) I had to bless the drive. From the Snow Leopard MacPro, I ran:

sudo bless --folder /Volumes/mydrive/System/Library/CoreServices/ --file /Volumes/mydrive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

7) I put the SSD back in my MacPro (again), and it booted! I still had no video, but I VNC'ed in, watched the 10.10.4 installer finish up, and then restarted one more time. After this restart, all was well, and I could use my computer again.

Lesson learned!

 

[sumer]

Couldn't you have just downloaded the pike boot EFI and replaced them in the 2 locations?

 

[Kuzbad]

Couldn't you have just downloaded the pike boot EFI and replaced them in the 2 locations?

I tried that--twice, actually--to make sure I did it right. I definitely could not boot until I ran the bless. I'm not sure why it was necessary.

 

[sumer]

Does anyone know how to remove the pike script?

I bought a mac pro that supports Yosemite natively and would like to use the mac pro 1.1 HD. I'm thinking I'll replace the pike Efi's with the official ones. Just worried about the script reloading on reboots.

Cheers

 

[Hennesie2000]

Does anyone know how to remove the pike script?

I bought a mac pro that supports Yosemite natively and would like to use the mac pro 1.1 HD. I'm thinking I'll replace the pike Efi's with the official ones. Just worried about the script reloading on reboots.

Cheers

Delete the launch daemon and then replace the two boot.efi files with the stock ones.

 

[sumer]

Delete the launch daemon and then replace the two boot.efi files with the stock ones.

Thanks Hennesie2000. I'll give it a go when i get home later. I'll still be using the macpro 1.1 tho

Cheers

 

[wolf1734]

Good evening I come towards you to know what I have to make for the putting has in the daytime of Yosemite on a pimp pro 1.1 which works on Yosemite 10.10.3 thank you very much cordially

 

[Hennesie2000]

Good evening I come towards you to know what I have to make for the putting has in the daytime of Yosemite on a pimp pro 1.1 which works on Yosemite 10.10.3 thank you very much cordially

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[wolf1734]

Good evening
My macpro 1.1 works under Yosemite 10.10.3; that have to I make to pass has 10.10.4.
Cordially

 

[Hennesie2000]

Good evening
My macpro 1.1 works under Yosemite 10.10.3; that have to I make to pass has 10.10.4.
Cordially

Make sure you have the PikeYoseFix installed (linked in the initial post) and then install 10.10.4 from the App Store.

 

[wolf1734]

Good evening
I had him(it) to install(settle) for the passage has 10.10.2 he(it) needs that I put back(hand) her(it).
Cordially

 

[sumer]

Good evening
I had him(it) to install(settle) for the passage has 10.10.2 he(it) needs that I put back(hand) her(it).
Cordially

If your saying you installed it before you upgraded to 10.10.2, then no you do not need to install it again.

Cheers

 

[gr33d0]

Software Update doesn't show 10.10.4...

I've got a 1,1 upgrade to run Yosemite, and am currently on 10.10.3 with the pikeyosefix. Things have been great, but I can't see the 10.10.4 upgrade in the App Store, and when I try to update iTunes to 12.2, it gives me this error:

An error has occurred

The operation couldn't be completed.
(NSURLErrorDomain error -1012)

I've update other applications through the app Store today without issue (iMovie, Tweetbot), but iTunes is a no go, and the update to Yosemite doesn't even show up.

 

[sumer]

Software Update doesn't show 10.10.4...

I've got a 1,1 upgrade to run Yosemite, and am currently on 10.10.3 with the pikeyosefix. Things have been great, but I can't see the 10.10.4 upgrade in the App Store, and when I try to update iTunes to 12.2, it gives me this error:

An error has occurred

The operation couldn't be completed.
(NSURLErrorDomain error -1012)

I've update other applications through the app Store today without issue (iMovie, Tweetbot), but iTunes is a no go, and the update to Yosemite doesn't even show up.

I think the new Itunes needs 10.10.4 . I could be mistaken tho. Have you tried to download the 10.10.4 Delta update by itself directly from apple?

 

[gr33d0]

I think the new Itunes needs 10.10.4 . I could be mistaken tho. Have you tried to download the 10.10.4 Delta update by itself directly from apple?

I'm downloading it manually, and hopefully it will help resolve the issue. It was just weird that the update (10.10.4) wasn't showing up at all in the App Store as an available update.

 

[sumer]

I'm downloading it manually, and hopefully it will help resolve the issue. It was just weird that the update (10.10.4) wasn't showing up at all in the App Store as an available update.

I believe it depends on where you live. I read people talking about the new itunes and the 10.10.4 update a few days ago. it didn't show up in my app store till late yesterday.Go figure.

I'm assuming you've run the pike script to fix updates.

Cheers

 

[gr33d0]

I believe it depends on where you live. I read people talking about the new itunes and the 10.10.4 update a few days ago. it didn't show up in my app store till late yesterday.Go figure.

I'm assuming you've run the pike script to fix updates.

Cheers

I was able to install the update successfully from the downloaded DMG, and I also installed the iTunes update from a DMG. Just a weird bug. It doesn't seem to affect any other application updates from the App Store, just these two. We'll see what happens when the next fix comes out. I'm still just happy I can run the latest OSX on this old beast...

 

[bidouilleur]

managed to get a working 10.10.4 by de the bless method though it won't reboot correctly each time
could it be that when the fix script makes the mac double boot (re write the boot,refi) it get's unblessed each time ? Meaning we have to start via external disk, terminal over and bless and then come back ??
can one of the guru's have a look at this wild guess and eventually include it in the fix ?