Tried the Gray boot.efi and got the same results. Screen goes blank after loading 1/3 of progress bar. Any other ideas?
Thanks Hennesie
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Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite
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Tried the Gray boot.efi and got the same results. Screen goes blank after loading 1/3 of progress bar. Any other ideas?
Thanks Hennesie
I'm having some difficulty as well with my 2006 MacPro 1,1, with a Radeon HD 6xxx card.
I've carefully made the USB stick twice, following the PDF instructions.
I've made sure that there are no shenanigans with the quotations marks.
I've tried both the black and grey versions of the boot.efi.
When I set the boot drive to the USB in System Preferences, I get a longer-than-normal boot but end up back on my Mavericks desktop. When I try booting and holding down the Option key, I get nothing (but I've never been able to see a boot screen in Mavericks).
I've carefully made the USB stick twice, following the PDF instructions.
I've made sure that there are no shenanigans with the quotations marks.
I've tried both the black and grey versions of the boot.efi.
When I set the boot drive to the USB in System Preferences, I get a longer-than-normal boot but end up back on my Mavericks desktop. When I try booting and holding down the Option key, I get nothing (but I've never been able to see a boot screen in Mavericks).
OS X Yosemite
Woooohoooooooooooooooooo!!!
Thanks to the SFOTT Beta I now run OS X Yosemite on my MacPro 2,1!
Yep, installed the official Public Release with the SFOTT Beta.
That thing is truly fool proof. Even I had no problem whatsoever.
No manual handling of efi files or putting machine IDs with wrong quotes anywhere. The SFOTT does everything for you. I just followed this and that's it:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1802986/
THANKS SO MUCH to EVERYONE involved!!! Most of all the SFOTT guy, Tiamo & Pike!
PS: Not saying the PDF method doesn't work. I was just trying to walk the path of least resistance, the above link made it look so easy, I decided to give it a try and it worked for me.
Woooohoooooooooooooooooo!!!
Thanks to the SFOTT Beta I now run OS X Yosemite on my MacPro 2,1!
Yep, installed the official Public Release with the SFOTT Beta.
That thing is truly fool proof. Even I had no problem whatsoever.
No manual handling of efi files or putting machine IDs with wrong quotes anywhere. The SFOTT does everything for you. I just followed this and that's it:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1802986/
THANKS SO MUCH to EVERYONE involved!!! Most of all the SFOTT guy, Tiamo & Pike!
PS: Not saying the PDF method doesn't work. I was just trying to walk the path of least resistance, the above link made it look so easy, I decided to give it a try and it worked for me.
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Alright, I have succeeded in making my installer. Currently installing on my Mac Pro 1,1 here at work, and I will do the Xserve in about an hour. Thanks to everyone that helped, with a special thanks (and $20) to Piker-Alpha for the work on the boot.efi and a thank you to Hennesie2000 for the Xserve Board-ID. Appreciate it.
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And you never will.
In any OS as boot screens are OS independent.
You will need an EFI card to use option key.
As MVC stated, you can't use the Option method. Instead, open up System Preferences, select "Startup Disk" and change it to your Yosemite installer. Then hit Reboot. If your installer is good, you will boot into it.
Yeah, I did try doing that. I just end up with a long boot process and back to Mavericks.
I've tried following the instructions meticulously, both times. I dunno, maybe I need a different USB drive (I'm using a new Toshiba 16 GB).
Successful install on my Xserve. Just waiting on a tiny little GeForce 405 and a Fiber Card to ship from Ebay and it can go into service. Thanks again.
Thanks Pike and others
Cloned my Macbook from the last beta of Yosemite.
Installed boot files.
Everything works.
iMessage required phone call to Apple (15 minutes wait and 3 minutes to fix)
I changed machine name in sharing so it would not show up as Macbook.
Last beta ends in 39 so Nvidia drivers do not work as they require the Appstore
public release which ends in 40.
Mac Pro 1,1 works.
Bought it for fifty spent a hundred on it.
University sells these at surplus store.
I may still get a 4,1 eight core but it is a feeding frenzy when these go on sale.
People stand in line for two hours
Cloned my Macbook from the last beta of Yosemite.
Installed boot files.
Everything works.
iMessage required phone call to Apple (15 minutes wait and 3 minutes to fix)
I changed machine name in sharing so it would not show up as Macbook.
Last beta ends in 39 so Nvidia drivers do not work as they require the Appstore
public release which ends in 40.
Mac Pro 1,1 works.
Bought it for fifty spent a hundred on it.
University sells these at surplus store.
I may still get a 4,1 eight core but it is a feeding frenzy when these go on sale.
People stand in line for two hours
Didn't realize this and went through making the efi USB key twice. Grrr. That's what I get for not checking the latest posts in the thread.
Running great on a MacPro 1,1 flashed to 2,1 with 14GB RAM, flashed 5770 installed on a secondary drive.
Tried the SFOTT without success so I went the long way. It worked, that's all that matters.
Thanks to all and I'll be sending piker some $$ for a job well done. Some of these other folks like hennessey and tiamo and others who have made this work for us should set up a donation site of some sort. I think they all deserve some compensation for giving us the ability to continue to use perfectly good hardware....
MacDann
Worked like a charm. Didn't even flash my Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1. Just followed the instructions, created the USB install drive, and away I went. I'm typing this from Yosemite on a Mac Pro 1,1 built in Jan of 2007 with an ATI Radeon HD5770 and 8GB of RAM.
Beautiful! Thank you so much for everyone's hard work, especially Hennesie2000 for writing such an easy to follow guide.https://forums.macrumors.com/members/128975/
Beautiful! Thank you so much for everyone's hard work, especially Hennesie2000 for writing such an easy to follow guide.https://forums.macrumors.com/members/128975/
I had this exact issue when trying to choose the Installer as the startup disk in System Preferences.
So I tried a 32GB USB and installed the SFOTT on an 8GB partition. Was not successful. Found an 8GB USB stick and followed these instructions to the T (again):
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1802986/
Chose the USB as the startup disk in System Preferences - finally off and installing. For the record, I had upgraded the processor and flashed my 1,1 to a 2,1. But in setting up the SFOTT USB drive, I chose the board_id of Mac-F4208DC8 but with a Machine Id of 2,1. Not sure if this make any difference but it is working.
OH YEAhhhhhhhhhhh! Thanks everybody.
So I tried a 32GB USB and installed the SFOTT on an 8GB partition. Was not successful. Found an 8GB USB stick and followed these instructions to the T (again):
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1802986/
Chose the USB as the startup disk in System Preferences - finally off and installing. For the record, I had upgraded the processor and flashed my 1,1 to a 2,1. But in setting up the SFOTT USB drive, I chose the board_id of Mac-F4208DC8 but with a Machine Id of 2,1. Not sure if this make any difference but it is working.
OH YEAhhhhhhhhhhh! Thanks everybody.
Hi guys,
thanks to all of you who made this possible!
I'm not (yet) on Yosemite, but installed Mavericks on the MacPro 1.1.
I will try it on another disk and report back.
So far everything is working but not:
-iMessage (have to contact Apple)
-Bluetooth (here I have to say, I don't have the Bluetooth board but USB-adapters, and strangely I can't disable Bluetooth, nor I can add devices.
Bluetooth is recognized for both adapters (1.1 und 3.0).
Does one have an idea?
Othewise I will try to get the Apple Bluetooth board on eBay.
Thanks again for making this possible.
Best,
yassi
thanks to all of you who made this possible!
I'm not (yet) on Yosemite, but installed Mavericks on the MacPro 1.1.
I will try it on another disk and report back.
So far everything is working but not:
-iMessage (have to contact Apple)
-Bluetooth (here I have to say, I don't have the Bluetooth board but USB-adapters, and strangely I can't disable Bluetooth, nor I can add devices.
Bluetooth is recognized for both adapters (1.1 und 3.0).
Does one have an idea?
Othewise I will try to get the Apple Bluetooth board on eBay.
Thanks again for making this possible.
Best,
yassi
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Yes, success at last! Last night I built the installer drive from scratch again, because I could have missed something during the previous attempt. There were two things I did differently now. One is that I extracted the entire Kernels folder from the Essentials package, so not just the kernel. I put that extracted folder in its correct place on the installer drive.Two is that I put the board ID at the first spot in the Distribution file, not at the end or somewhere in the middle. I also copied the quotation marks from another board ID and used those for my own board ID, just to make sure I wouldn't run into the problem of having quotation marks in italics.
After double-checking everything I tried to do a clean install on a separate partition this morning and it worked!
Thank you so much Hennesie2000 and Pike for providing the step-by-step guide and the boot.efi.
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Yep, also seeing this. My Logitech webcam works fine with FaceTime and Skype but the microphone in it will not work for calls through the phone....
2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite
This might only be a Logitech issue. See if you can find out if this is an issue on supported systems. My Trittin AX Pro headset that uses a USB mic works fine for calls.
This might only be a Logitech issue. See if you can find out if this is an issue on supported systems. My Trittin AX Pro headset that uses a USB mic works fine for calls.
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Here's a strange question. I've never used the Messages app until I just updated to Yosemite on my Mac Pro 1,1 last night. Of course I got the call Apple message and did so this morning. It's now all up and working and I see all the texts back and forth from today, however.....
Should I be seeing all the conversations that have ever taken place like I do on my iPhone? Is there a way to make that happen?
Should I be seeing all the conversations that have ever taken place like I do on my iPhone? Is there a way to make that happen?
You will see conversations as they happen from now on. If an older conversation on your phone gets a new message then it will show up in it's entirety on the computer. I don't know of a way to import conversations though.
Just copy the Messages folder in your userid Library from a computer that has the Messages history that you want to see on the new computer.
You should quit Messages first and probably restart after you copy.
Thank you. That's what I thought but this idiot on the phone at Apple told me I should be seeing everything and was having me reboot and log in and out of iCloud, etc. Apple's support personnel are just terrible these days.
Boot EFI method
Ive done everything in the instructions for the Piker-Alpha method and I'm stuck at the Apple Boot Screen doesn't leave that screen any suggestions on what I might have done wrong?
Ive done everything in the instructions for the Piker-Alpha method and I'm stuck at the Apple Boot Screen doesn't leave that screen any suggestions on what I might have done wrong?
Hold v while booting to go into verbose mode and see if there are any errors. I am assuming you have an EFI video card since you see the Apple logo on boot.
BREAKING NEWS / UPDATE from Pike:
Good news. I remembered something from like five months ago. Yes. I already figured this out but I forgot about this change. Luckily some part of my brain recalled it and that was when I asked Mikeboss a great help by the way to backup: /com.apple.recovery.com/kernelcache and to copy: /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.com/Startup/kernelcache over it. BOOM. A successful boot from his Yosemite Recovery HD!
In other words. The missing 28 bytes (mach_header) at the start of the kernelcache, which was removed by Apple in BaseSystem.dmg and the one on the Recovery HD. No idea why Apple did this, but it is likely to break most boot loaders. With a few exceptions. And that ladies and gents was why the load routine in macosxbootloader is failing.
A fix to remedy this problem is being worked on and should soon be available.
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/recover-hd-booting-with-macosxbootloader/
Good news. I remembered something from like five months ago. Yes. I already figured this out but I forgot about this change. Luckily some part of my brain recalled it and that was when I asked Mikeboss a great help by the way to backup: /com.apple.recovery.com/kernelcache and to copy: /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.com/Startup/kernelcache over it. BOOM. A successful boot from his Yosemite Recovery HD!
In other words. The missing 28 bytes (mach_header) at the start of the kernelcache, which was removed by Apple in BaseSystem.dmg and the one on the Recovery HD. No idea why Apple did this, but it is likely to break most boot loaders. With a few exceptions. And that ladies and gents was why the load routine in macosxbootloader is failing.
A fix to remedy this problem is being worked on and should soon be available.
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/recover-hd-booting-with-macosxbootloader/