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

[Ant3000]

Hi please can someone help me before I throw my Mac Pro 1.1 threw the window ! I've trying to put Yosemite 10.10.4 from the App Store on my Mac Pro 1.1 2x3ghz 16gb ram ati 5770 Apple card all weekend with the SFOTT installer

The SFOTT has created the bootable usb fine and it shows in finder no problem but it just won't boot from it ? I have tried booting in start up disk and holding the option key at the start but it just boots my old lion drive ?

I have also done the PRAM reset and tried another usb pen and different usb slots ?

Please help someone

I Have similar set-up and had similar problems. I installed Mavericks with SFOTT but couldn't get Yosemite to work using this method. I used the pre-patched installer in the end and it worked fine. Then installed Yosefix followed by further updates to get to 10.10.4.

Hope this is helpful.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Hi please can someone help me before I throw my Mac Pro 1.1 threw the window ! I've trying to put Yosemite 10.10.4 from the App Store on my Mac Pro 1.1 2x3ghz 16gb ram ati 5770 Apple card all weekend with the SFOTT installer

The SFOTT has created the bootable usb fine and it shows in finder no problem but it just won't boot from it ? I have tried booting in start up disk and holding the option key at the start but it just boots my old lion drive ?

I have also done the PRAM reset and tried another usb pen and different usb slots ?

Please help someone

Try creating the installer on an 8GB partition on an internal HDD or using a USB to SATA adapter with a HDD.

 

[Jedigav]

Try creating the installer on an 8GB partition on an internal HDD or using a USB to SATA adapter with a HDD.

Just tried that on a Ssd drive it all went fine in SFOTT but I can't see the drive in the start up disk and I can't boot from it ?

 

[Jedigav]

I Have similar set-up and had similar problems. I installed Mavericks with SFOTT but couldn't get Yosemite to work using this method. I used the pre-patched installer in the end and it worked fine. Then installed Yosefix followed by further updates to get to 10.10.4.

Hope this is helpful.

Hi cheers for the infor think I will try Mavericks first then , do u have a link for the pre-patched installer ?

 

[Hennesie2000]

Hi cheers for the infor think I will try Mavericks first then , do u have a link for the pre-patched installer ?

There is a link in the first post. You don't need Mavericks though.

 

[Ant3000]

Hi cheers for the infor think I will try Mavericks first then , do u have a link for the pre-patched installer ?

You don't have to install Mavericks first - that was just the way I did it. The link to the Pre patched Yosemite installer is on the first page of this thread I think. This gives you 10.10 possibly slightly later. You then need to install the Yosefix - also linked on the first page - this will ensure that the further updates do not overwrite the patched files of the install. Once this is done and you reboot as per the instructions, you can install further updates from the App Store.

 

[hugoZA]

I used a 10.10.4 installer, installed over USB from my MBPr, replaced the boot.efi in its two locations and presto...fully working 2.1 Yosemite. Even the El Cap PB1 installed perfectly using this method.

 

[Jedigav]

I used a 10.10.4 installer, installed over USB from my MBPr, replaced the boot.efi in its two locations and presto...fully working 2.1 Yosemite. Even the El Cap PB1 installed perfectly using this method.

I Have similar set-up and had similar problems. I installed Mavericks with SFOTT but couldn't get Yosemite to work using this method. I used the pre-patched installer in the end and it worked fine. Then installed Yosefix followed by further updates to get to 10.10.4.

Hope this is helpful.

managed to get Mavericks installed tonight via SFOTT then tried putting yosemite on created the bootable usb with SFOTT no problems but when it boots it shows the black /white Apple sign then a load of text comes down the left hand side of the screen and then it restarts all over again ?

 

[Ant3000]

managed to get Mavericks installed tonight via SFOTT then tried putting yosemite on created the bootable usb with SFOTT no problems but when it boots it shows the black /white Apple sign then a load of text comes down the left hand side of the screen and then it restarts all over again ?

I had that black screen with white text too. The SFOTT instructions for Yosemite were not as clear as with Mavericks - well not to me any way. I guess you missed the posts pointing out that you don't 'have' to install Maverick before Yosemite - I only did it as I couldn't get Yosemite to install at that point. If you can download the pre patched Yosemite on page 1 and follow the instructions there is no reason it shouldn't install. Or try as described above by using another Mac and using target disk mode. I tried some of this but couldn't work out how to unlock one of the files I needed to replace so went the pre patched route. Remember to install Yosefix to allow updates to be installed to get to current version. Good luck.

 

[Jedigav]

I had that black screen with white text too. The SFOTT instructions for Yosemite were not as clear as with Mavericks - well not to me any way. I guess you missed the posts pointing out that you don't 'have' to install Maverick before Yosemite - I only did it as I couldn't get Yosemite to install at that point. If you can download the pre patched Yosemite on page 1 and follow the instructions there is no reason it shouldn't install. Or try as described above by using another Mac and using target disk mode. I tried some of this but couldn't work out how to unlock one of the files I needed to replace so went the pre patched route. Remember to install Yosefix to allow updates to be installed to get to current version. Good luck.

I've got a copy of the pre patched Yosemite as well but I don't know how to make a bootable drive from it ? The post I followed said to use diskmaker x but it keeps saying file no valid ?

 

[Hennesie2000]

I've got a copy of the pre patched Yosemite as well but I don't know how to make a bootable drive from it ? The post I followed said to use diskmaker x but it keeps saying file no valid ?

You can just restore the image using Disk Utility.

 

[Ant3000]

You can just restore the image using Disk Utility.

Hennesie2000 beat me to it - I restored it to an external hard drive I had but a USB stick would do just as well, and then installed from that onto a new SSD in the Mac Pro.

 

[Jedigav]

Oh fi

You can just restore the image using Disk Utility.

Oh didn't realise disk utility would create a bootable usb drive cheers will try tonight

 

[Jedigav]

You can just restore the image using Disk Utility.

Hi could u explain how u are creating a bootable usb in disk utility using the pre patched Yosemite ? When I have tried there is no shared support folder with the installESD.dmg with the pre patched Yosemite file but on the genuine App Store Yosemite there is but I can't use that one ?

 

[Hennesie2000]

Hi could u explain how u are creating a bootable usb in disk utility using the pre patched Yosemite ? When I have tried there is no shared support folder with the installESD.dmg with the pre patched Yosemite file but on the genuine App Store Yosemite there is but I can't use that one ?

You select the partition you want to use as the installer and choose restore. Then select the pre-patched dmg as the source. That's it.

 

[Jedigav]

You select the partition you want to use as the installer and choose restore. Then select the pre-patched dmg as the source. That's it.

Every time I try to do it that way it's says
To restore the disk image disk utility must scan it first then I have a error everytime saying :- unable to scan untitled resource busy ? Tried two different usb pen drives too

 

[Hennesie2000]

Every time I try to do it that way it's says
To restore the disk image disk utility must scan it first then I have a error everytime saying :- unable to scan untitled resource busy ? Tried two different usb pen drives too

You have to scan the patched dmg file it shouldn't say untitled.

 

[Jedigav]

You have to scan the patched dmg file it shouldn't say untitled.

Oh I have been dragging over the Yosemite installer.dmg file ? The untitled is the usb pen drive

 

[Hennesie2000]

Oh I have been dragging over the Yosemite installer.dmg file ? The untitled is the usb pen drive

Im not able to get in front of my computer right now. Just google how to restore a disk image to a drive using disk utility.

 

[Jedigav]

Is there a way to patch a official download of Yosemite off the App Store with the pikes boot loader ? I have downloaded the pre patched version already and can't get it to work with SFOTT , diskmaker x and disk utility tried different usb pens and partitioned Ssds ?

 

[Hennesie2000]

Is there a way to patch a official download of Yosemite off the App Store with the pikes boot loader ? I have downloaded the pre patched version already and can't get it to work with SFOTT , diskmaker x and disk utility tried different usb pens and partitioned Ssds ?

Have you read the first post at all? EVERYTHING you have asked for or asked about is in that post.

 

[B34NS]

Updated from 10.10.1, used pikeyosefix, updated to 10.10.4 without a hitch. Guess El Cap might be next up if there any benefits over where it's at now.

 

[saint322]

Mac Pro 2,1 which I hadn't updated since 10.9.1 because of the tedious nature of swapping the boot.efi. This approach was much easier after I was forced to take action when my system auto-updated (never a box I check...EVER!!!). I had recently grabbed an Aukey USB SSD drive-bay off Amazon for less than $10 for an external SSD drive for the girlfriend to quick add an SSD to her aging first-gen intel MBP. It worked well enough I ordered another for myself as it was much smoother than the Swiss Army Drive kit from Other World Computing [OWC] (though that gadget still holds a special place in my heart).

After the auto-update, I pulled the SSD drive which I've mounted into my tower via a kit from OWC (which if you aren't using an SSD in your 2,1 Mac Pro you have no idea how fast your tower can still run) and popped it into the Aukey tray. Through work I have a semi-current hardware MacBook Air, I booted to the SSD via System Preferences and rather tinker with the current 10.9.x version, I opted to jump from Mavericks to Yosemite.

I ran all the updates to get to 10.10.4. I then downloaded the appropriate web-build https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...out-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/ for Nvidia. It wouldn't let me install initially, so I followed step #25 in the original post and made the appropriate changes for the web-driver that corresponded to 10.10.4. I restarted. Once up and running I set the Startup Disk to the MacBook Air's 10.8.5 system and restarted again.

At this point, I followed Mr. Zarniwhoop's Piker-Alpha instructions:

Another simplified installation approach is to use a second Yosemite-supported Mac and install Yosemite to the 2006/2007 Mac Pro's drive. This may be done either by attaching the 2006/2007 Mac Pro's drive as an external drive by placing the 2006/2007 Mac Pro in target disk mode or otherwise mounting the 2006/2007 Mac Pro's drive to a Yosemite-supported Mac. Then, after installation, copy Pike's EFI32 boot.efi to that drive's /usr/standalone/i386 and /System/Library/CoreServices/ directories overwriting the stock Apple EFI64 boot.efi and repair permissions. That drive should now be bootable on a 2006/2007 Mac Pro, although sometimes it stillmay need to be blessed in the 2006/2007 Mac Pro.
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All I needed to do was pop into terminal and make my everything visible via Terminal, I then dropped in the Piker-Alpha boot.efi and used Drive Utility to unmount the SSD from the MB Air, took it to my tower and plugged it in (via USB to confirm all was working as advertised), went to System Preferences and selected it as the System I wanted to boot and viola.

 

[jash]

How to recover the system HD from a time machine backup?
I have been using OS X 10.10.4 on my MacPro 1,1 using the method described here without any problems.
But now I need to recover the system disk from a time machine backup. I tried to boot into the Recovery HD holding the option key at startup, but the correct recovery hd doesn't show up so i cannot chose it.
I even tried to replace the boot.efi on the recovery hd but without success.
Also the booting with command R doesn't work.
Does anyone know how to help me?
Jash

 

[Ant3000]

Is there a way to patch a official download of Yosemite off the App Store with the pikes boot loader ? I have downloaded the pre patched version already and can't get it to work with SFOTT , diskmaker x and disk utility tried different usb pens and partitioned Ssds ?

Use either the pre patched file OR SFOTT using the MAS version. Why would you need to use SFOTT with a pre patched version - it already has the changes made. If you are serious about doing this yourself, you really need to read a few pages of this thread to get an understanding of what you are trying to achieve. The answers are all there if you read through the information - anything you don't understand is probably answered further on in the thread. I have no great knowledge of using Terminal but sill got Yosemite up and running with the help and advice already given on this and the SFOTT site - for which I am very grateful. Just spend an hour reading this and you will be able to sort it yourself.