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

[Graeme43]

Tried to make a new account and it worked, Thanks!!!

one thing i find weird is that the menu bar has no icons on the right side after clean install or a new user. what i mean is the wifi, bluetooth, clock, time machine etc.

I had that problem on a real MBP 2008 lol had to try like 3-4 times

Run 10.10 on my 2007 Mac Pro dev 3 and my laptop

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B02
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system):
Hardware UUID:



System Software Overview:

System Version: OS X 10.10 (14A283o)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh SSD
Boot Mode: Normal
User Name: Graeme Marshall (StatusQuoRules)
Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
Time since boot: 1 day12:51

 

[jakesaunders27]

Has anyone tried handoff or whatever its called with an older Mac Pro and iOS 8? Does it work?

 

[NOTNlCE]

Has anyone tried handoff or whatever its called with an older Mac Pro and iOS 8? Does it work?

See here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1748061/
At the moment, it requires an iMac Airport/BT card, but MacVidCards and Netkas believe they can patch the .kext for USB dongle support.

 

[jakesaunders27]

See here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1748061/
At the moment, it requires an iMac Airport/BT card, but MacVidCards and Netkas believe they can patch the .kext for USB dongle support.

Excellent, thanks for the link

 

[haralds]

Hi Hennesie2000,

Tried your guide, worked perfectly.

Thanks,

Has anybody got this to work with a preconfigured DP3 system created on another machine?
My process:
1.) 4TB disk partitioned with 500MB BOOT (fat), 960GB Yosemite, 2.5TB storage, MBR table added.
2.) Install Chameleon per instructions
3.) CarbonCopy configured system to Yosemite partition.
It appears to boot into Chameleon via legacy mode, but I get no valid system found.

 

[haralds]

Has anybody got this to work with a preconfigured DP3 system created on another machine?
My process:
1.) 4TB disk partitioned with 500MB BOOT (fat), 960GB Yosemite, 2.5TB storage, MBR table added.
2.) Install Chameleon per instructions
3.) CarbonCopy configured system to Yosemite partition.
It appears to boot into Chameleon via legacy mode, but I get no valid system found.

Found that Mavericks (and Lion's) surreptitious setup of a CoreStorage volume might have gotten in the way. Booted into Snow Leopard and removed that restoring a simple partitioning. Reinstalled. Clover booted into the menu and tried to load Yosemite, but it just stalled with no message. I reinstalled Chameleon. It booted but ended up with the no bootable volume message.
Might try installing from scratch, when I have time.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Found that Mavericks (and Lion's) surreptitious setup of a CoreStorage volume might have gotten in the way. Booted into Snow Leopard and removed that restoring a simple partitioning. Reinstalled. Clover booted into the menu and tried to load Yosemite, but it just stalled with no message. I reinstalled Chameleon. It booted but ended up with the no bootable volume message.
Might try installing from scratch, when I have time.

If you have a hybrid MBR setup on the disk you may need to use fdisk to identify the Chamleon partition as the active partition. My guide is for using a GUID and not messing with a MBR at all. The only reason I have a hybrid MBR was so that I could have Chameleon, Mavericks, and Windows 7 all on one disk using Chameleon to control the dual boot. I had to set the Chameleon partition as active or it would try to boot Windows without going to Chameleon.

 

[haralds]

If you have a hybrid MBR setup on the disk you may need to use fdisk to identify the Chamleon partition as the active partition. My guide is for using a GUID and not messing with a MBR at all. The only reason I have a hybrid MBR was so that I could have Chameleon, Mavericks, and Windows 7 all on one disk using Chameleon to control the dual boot. I had to set the Chameleon partition as active or it would try to boot Windows without going to Chameleon.

I use iPartition.
Is Chameleon able to run on and HFS+ partition on a pure GUID disk? Is Clover?

 

[Hennesie2000]

I use iPartition.
Is Chameleon able to run on and HFS+ partition on a pure GUID disk? Is Clover?

Yes chameleon is able to do that. It is the method my guide covers. I have not tried it with clover.

 

[Graeme43]

DP4 out now, just going to try and install it now

Failed to boot without -f

 

[H2SO4]

DP4 out now, just going to try and install it now

Failed to boot without -f

Nice to see that it does actually boot tho.

 

[Graeme43]

Nice to see that it does actually boot tho.

Yep. shame no trim though

 

[H2SO4]

Yep. shame no trim though

I can do without trim, (I think). I’ve still not actually given it a go. D’lded the guide by Henessie2000 but still haven’t yet. Always thought Chameleon although I did get it working was a bit of a hassle.

 

[Hennesie2000]

DP4 out now, just going to try and install it now

Failed to boot without -f

Have you tried rebuilding the cache and then booting without -f? I'm on vacation so I won't be able to try anything for another week.

 

[H2SO4]

Have you tried rebuilding the cache and then booting without -f? I'm on vacation so I won't be able to try anything for another week.

Not done it at all myself yet. I’ve downloaded your guide but not actioned at this time.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Not done it at all myself yet. I’ve downloaded your guide but not actioned at this time.

Oops, I meant to quote Graeme43.

 

[Greyhounds]

If anyone would like to try, I have made a guide similar to the one that I made for Mavericks a while ago. It is for setting up a single hard drive that contains the Boot, Installer, and Yosemite partitions all on one drive. This is how I am currently running 10.10 DP2 on my Mac Pro 1,1 with a GTX570. The guide includes links for Chameleon r2380, an Extra folder and the Kernels folder.

https://mega.co.nz/#!S0R3lISD!dmAs0LtVZzXb66OYKSz-vNNk1yzK3WeJBMNBIu281nw

Hi - New around here, just wanted to throw in my $0.02...

I used the Hennesle PDF from post #227 and I am up and running (THANK YOU!)

Dev Preview 1
Mac Pro 1,1
Apple Radeon 5770 - (Displaying as "Radeon 5000")

A few thoughts -

I realized too late that Hennesle said in the post they were using DP2, so I used DP1, it doesn't say specifically in the pdf. At this point I'll probably hold out to hear how things go with DP3 or DP4...

(my other install is a stable working 10.9.1)

I was dead in the water until I found the comments about "graphicsenabler=no" I don't claim to understand why, but my radeon card seemed to require this. Not a flashed video card, apple stock card.

The other thing that had me stuck, at first I was trying to create the partitions on an SSD drive that was connected via the motherboard SATA plugs that most people don't use. Once I put the same SSD into a standard "sled" spot I was in business.

The reason I actually did this was that I just blew a DIMM - cost me 4gig of RAM. Seeing Yosemite boot makes me think that maybe the $40-80 to take this machine back to 12-16gig might be worth it. Though rumor is the old mac pro 1,1s will actually support 32gig... hehe... (already running 8 core Xeon 5365s @3.0)

Thanks again!

 

[moomanjohnny]

Wow great progress guys. I was wondering how good it runs Yosemite because my friend is offering me one for about $100. Do you guys think its worth the money? I will still have to put a hard drive in, but I have extras from old computers. I don't know all the specs but I know it has 8gb of ram. So do you guys think it will be worth it to buy it and install Yosemite on it?

 

[Graeme43]

Dev Preview 1
Mac Pro 1,1
Apple Radeon 5770 - (Displaying as "Radeon 5000")

I am running DP4 fine

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Wow great progress guys. I was wondering how good it runs Yosemite because my friend is offering me one for about $100. Do you guys think its worth the money? I will still have to put a hard drive in, but I have extras from old computers. I don't know all the specs but I know it has 8gb of ram. So do you guys think it will be worth it to buy it and install Yosemite on it?

Runs great I'd get it for that price especially if it you're gonna use it

 

[H2SO4]

Wow great progress guys. I was wondering how good it runs Yosemite because my friend is offering me one for about $100. Do you guys think its worth the money? I will still have to put a hard drive in, but I have extras from old computers. I don't know all the specs but I know it has 8gb of ram. So do you guys think it will be worth it to buy it and install Yosemite on it?

$100 for a MP1,1? I’d say buy, sounds a great deal.
I may be misguided but I’d rather throw mine away than sell if for 100 bucks.

 

[H2SO4]

Public Beta tomorrow BTW…….

 

[Greyhounds]

Public Beta tomorrow BTW…….

Hummm... sounds like DP4 is the public beta...

Debating if I mess with DP4 today, or wait. I guess using the public beta version would be a little more legit. But then if I can figure out how to get DP4 working, maybe it will be the same for the official beta.

As far as I have read, the only difference in the versions are the update cycle being more frequent for the developers running DP4. But I would guess most of us here won't be using the "standard" update procedures.

Any good tips on getting DP4 or, as of tomorrow, getting the beta running would be appreciated. I'll post anything I learn.

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DP4 out now, just going to try and install it now

Failed to boot without -f

Sorry - rookie here -

Where will "-f" need to be used? In one of the boot files?

Sorry if that's a rookie question.

 

[H2SO4]

Hummm... sounds like DP4 is the public beta...

Debating if I mess with DP4 today, or wait. I guess using the public beta version would be a little more legit. But then if I can figure out how to get DP4 working, maybe it will be the same for the official beta.

As far as I have read, the only difference in the versions are the update cycle being more frequent for the developers running DP4. But I would guess most of us here won't be using the "standard" update procedures.

Any good tips on getting DP4 or, as of tomorrow, getting the beta running would be appreciated. I'll post anything I learn.

You could be right actually, and probably are. I’m on teh dev prog but will wait until tomorrow as the release should be stable.
I’ve had both ML, Mavs and now Yosemite at DP release point. I ran the DP as my production system on ML without issue, did the same with Mavs but reverted due to the iTunes local sync issue.
I may do the same again.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Sorry - rookie here -

Where will "-f" need to be used? In one of the boot files?

Sorry if that's a rookie question.

-f can be used in your org.chameleon.Boot.plist as a kernel flag or when booting you can also apply it there by just typing -f before you select which partition to boot.

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Wow great progress guys. I was wondering how good it runs Yosemite because my friend is offering me one for about $100. Do you guys think its worth the money? I will still have to put a hard drive in, but I have extras from old computers. I don't know all the specs but I know it has 8gb of ram. So do you guys think it will be worth it to buy it and install Yosemite on it?

$100 is a steal and then spend another $150 and upgrade it with x5365's.

 

[NOTNlCE]

Wow great progress guys. I was wondering how good it runs Yosemite because my friend is offering me one for about $100. Do you guys think its worth the money? I will still have to put a hard drive in, but I have extras from old computers. I don't know all the specs but I know it has 8gb of ram. So do you guys think it will be worth it to buy it and install Yosemite on it?

Most people say to "Stay away from the 1,1s!" but for $100, that's a great buy. Sure, it will need some upgrades, and of course a new video card in order to run Yosemite, but if a 1,1 runs Yosemite the way mine runs Mavericks, that's a great purchase, imho. Especially with 8GB of RAM.