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

[Hammido]

This is not true for PB3.

I've just extracted the PB3-Kernel with Pacifist 3.2.14 from InstallESD.dmg -> Packages -> Essentials.pkg -> /System/Library/Kernels/kernel .

I've patched the Installer manually (according to the Guide in Post #227):

- restored the BaseSystem.dmg with Disk Utility
- replaced the Alias in /System/Installation/ with the Packages folder from InstallESD.dmg
- edited the Board-ID in /System/Installation/Packages/InstallableMachines.plist
- edited the Board-ID and the Mac Model in /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
- added the Board-ID in /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg
- copied BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist into the root folder of the Installer partition (or USB-Flashdrive)
- added the Kernel to /System/Library/Kernels/
- replaced the Boot.efi in /System/Library/CoreServices/ as well as /usr/standalone/i386 with the new one.

The PB3-Installer boots fine on my MBP2,2 (late 2006, EFI32).

Hey there, atvusr!

Great job on this here guide, I could happily boot with my Mac Pro 1,1 into the actual installer, but then I am unable to begin installation with the message ~"OS X 10.10 is already installed on this computer…".

What may be the cause of that?
I've removed every hard drive to make sure it's not confusing my 10.9.5 Mavericks with an installed Yosemite. Only have one blank internal HDD and the external HDD with the successfully booting Yosemite on its own partition. (GUID-formatted).

Is it perhaps confusing its own OS X Base System with an installed copy of Yosemite?

Thank you in advance!

EDIT: Oh, and I'm using OS X 10.10 Public Beta 4.

 

[ikir]

Done everything except

- replaced the Boot.efi in /System/Library/CoreServices/ as well as /usr/standalone/i386 with the new one.

Since MacBook 4,1 should be able to 64bit boot. But after installer finished, i can't boot in Yosemite. So i've replaced boot.efi in my installer and now i can't even boot the installer. Any idea?

 

[gpatpandp]

Downloaded the full Public Beta 4 .app though still the same as before...I get five lines of TIANO: etc. followed by a hyphen and the same occurrence loops indefinitely until I pull up the boot menu during restart and select a different disk image. Replacing the patched boot.efi files with the stock ones will boot the exact same compiled installer with Clover.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Done everything except





Since MacBook 4,1 should be able to 64bit boot. But after installer finished, i can't boot in Yosemite. So i've replaced boot.efi in my installer and now i can't even boot the installer. Any idea?

I don't believe the Intel GMA x3100 is supported. That's why the last supported OS is 10.7.5 (32bit).

 

[Hennesie2000]

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

Currently running a Yosemite installer for GM1 off a flash drive on to a clean HDD. Using the latest boot.efi from Piker.

**Update**

Success. I was able to build the installer on a flash drive and then install to a new HDD and boot Yosemite GM1 without clover/chameleon or another Mac. All we need now is to finish trouble shooting the boot.efi, and wait for Apple to release the final version. I am going to test upgrading from Mavericks using the same installer, theoretically it should work fine. I will get to work on a guide since the process shouldn't really change unless Apple throws a curveball in the end.

 

[ikir]

I don't believe the Intel GMA x3100 is supported. That's why the last supported OS is 10.7.5 (32bit).

It should work anyway, without graphic acceleration (some dev are trying to update GMA kexts for 64bit), indeed the installer works. I'm trying again.

 

[H2SO4]

Works here too

just ran Geekbench 3 it gets the around the same as Mavericks

Are you sure?
The browser seems to indicate that the 2013 8 Core single score benchmark is about 3500. It pegs the multicore score at about 26K.
The slowest rated Mac Pro ’13 gets 3100.
These are 64bit benchmarks.

The browser also indicates that the 2013 8 Core single score benchmark is about 3200. It pegs the multicore score at about 23K.
The slowest rated Mac Pro ’13 gets 2800.
These are 32bit benchmarks.

 

[atvusr]

PS. [...] your graphics in that MBP 2,2…is it Intel X3100 or ATI X1600 ?

It's ATI X1600. Seemingly no 64bit graphics Kexts available for this GPU and Mavericks/Yosemite, therefore no graphics acceleration and translucent menus.

 

[atvusr]

I get five lines of TIANO: etc. followed by a hyphen and the same occurrence loops indefinitely until I pull up the boot menu during restart and select a different disk image.

Wait approx. 1 minute (slow USB-Flashdrive) after the hyphen/underscore appears, the Installer/Mac should boot then in Verbose mode.

Maybe you could also try to reset the PRAM. It helped when my MBP2,2 sometimes hung on boot at the hyphen/underscore.

Please mind that the new Boot.efi has still development status ....

 

[Antoni Nygaard]

Are you sure?
The browser seems to indicate that the 2013 8 Core single score benchmark is about 3500. It pegs the multicore score at about 26K.
The slowest rated Mac Pro ’13 gets 3100.
These are 64bit benchmarks.

The browser also indicates that the 2013 8 Core single score benchmark is about 3200. It pegs the multicore score at about 23K.
The slowest rated Mac Pro ’13 gets 2800.
These are 32bit benchmarks.

What are you talking about? i'm not talking about getting the same benchmark score as the new nMP, but running Mavericks on the same old machine and Yosemite gets around the same score.

 

[H2SO4]

What are you talking about? i'm not talking about getting the same benchmark score as the new nMP, but running Mavericks on the same old machine and Yosemite gets around the same score.

Ok, it’s all clear now.

 

[Antoni Nygaard]

Ok, it’s all clear now.

Good

 

[gpatpandp]

Wait approx. 1 minute (slow USB-Flashdrive) after the hyphen/underscore appears, the Installer/Mac should boot then in Verbose mode.

Maybe you could also try to reset the PRAM. It helped when my MBP2,2 sometimes hung on boot at the hyphen/underscore.

Please mind that the new Boot.efi has still development status ....

Now after resetting the PRAM so many times in attempting to get my compiled installer to boot, it some how broke my Yosemite boot drive's ability to boot. It keeps freezing/stalling at the "Ethernet" loading phase in verbose. I have built two different installers; one on a 3.5 spare hard drive that i simply slid into a bay in my Mac Pro. The other build is on a spare 2.5 hard drive in a firewire 800 enclosure. No difference between the two in that neither will boot with the patched boot.efi. I took the installer located in the firewire drive, connected it to one of our supported Macs, switched out the boot.efi with the stock file and it booted without issue.

I was able to repair my Yosemite boot drive in disk utility

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It's ATI X1600. Seemingly no 64bit graphics Kexts available for this GPU and Mavericks/Yosemite, therefore no graphics acceleration and translucent menus.
Btw: Do you have a idea how to fix the issue with the defective Icons in 10.8.5 Moutain Lion? See Post #3923 to Post #3928. The error seems to occur more on a MBP2,2 than on a iMac5,1.

There are several different patched Open GL & CL frameworks out there and I recall extracting a pair from one of HackerWayne's and MLforALL's MLPostFactor early builds worked the best and corrected the appearance of the icons in Finder.

Here they are:
https://mega.co.nz/#!ZFMAAYrb!Hcf5Sq0qn6Nxb1BHLZWbvQ2WKTvO5xsjH81fvUHS8Xo

 

[Hennesie2000]

As a test I installed a fresh copy of Mavericks on a disk using an installer that I built using Tiamo's boot.efi. I then was able upgrade that install to Yosemite GM1 using the installer that I built last night using Piker_Alpha's boot.efi compiled from latest source. Everything seems to be intact, settings, and a file that I placed on the desktop as a test to see if it would get overwritten accidentally.

 

[haralds]

... using Piker_Alpha's boot.efi compiled from latest source.

Do you do your own build or is this available for download somewhere?

 

[Hammido]

God BLESS Piker-Alpha!

https://flic.kr/p/pgY3kn

My goodness…
It's working GREAT!

Just used my MacBook Air (Late 2010) and installed on my main 3,5" Mac Pro HDD through USB 2.0 and just replaced the boot.efi in both CoreServices and /usr/standalone/i386. And of course added my board into PlatformSupport.plist.

Omfg. <3
Thank you ALL! This means an awful lot to me.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Do you do your own build or is this available for download somewhere?

I compiled the code using MS Visual Studio like was discussed on the previous few pages of this thread.

 

[gpatpandp]

I compiled the code using MS Visual Studio like was discussed on the previous few pages of this thread.

That might explain your ability to successfully create a working installer. No compiled boot.efi that has been furnished here has worked. The moment I get rid of the patched boot.efi and return the original/official/supported boot.efi, my installer works like a champ (on Yosemite supported Macs of course).

 

[Hennesie2000]

That might explain your ability to successfully create a working installer. No compiled boot.efi that has been furnished here has worked. The moment I get rid of the patched boot.efi and return the original/official/supported boot.efi, my installer works like a champ (on Yosemite supported Macs of course).

Check your pms

 

[Hennesie2000]

Just built a new boot.efi with the changes made on 10/6 and built it in x64 mode. Worked fine with the installer and it booted much faster.

 

[Hammido]

Just built a new boot.efi with the changes made on 10/6 and built it in x64 mode. Worked fine with the installer and it booted much faster.

Incredible! Any chance of sharing it to us/me?
I would be most grateful!

 

[Hennesie2000]

Incredible! Any chance of sharing it to us/me?
I would be most grateful!

Here it is.

I have a guide written but will wait to post it till Yosemite is released to the public and all the bugs and optimizations are worked out for the new boot.efi.

*EDIT*

Uploaded the wrong file.

 

[Hammido]

Here it is.

I have a guide written but will wait to post it till Yosemite is released to the public and all the bugs and optimizations are worked out for the new boot.efi.

Thanks a BUNCH!
… just one thing. Is that the right one you just made?
Because viewing info says it was last modified on the 3rd of October.

Excuse me for asking, just wanted to make sure it's safe for me to replace my current (slower) boot.efi's!

 

[Hennesie2000]

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

Thanks a BUNCH!

… just one thing. Is that the right one you just made?

Because viewing info says it was last modified on the 3rd of October.



Excuse me for asking, just wanted to make sure it's safe for me to replace my current (slower) boot.efi's!

Oops I think I grabbed the wrong zip file. Try this one.

Edit: removed attachment

 

[Hammido]

Darn =/ … I think that boot.efi doesn't work for me. (Mac Pro 1,1).
It switched to my Windows partition instead of even booting. Going back to previous boot.efi!