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

[Hennesie2000]

Ok better PSU than motherboard !

Have you got any paypal account where we can send you some bucks to help you, it's a pity that you have done so much for MAcPro users and you don't have one working !

It won't be a fortune but we are so many that you have helped

It is not necessary but I sent you a PM.

BTW, I checked the 10.10.1 beta package and it does not update either of the boot.efi files.

 

[Peloche]

It is not necessary but I sent you a PM.

BTW, I checked the 10.10.1 beta package and it does not update either of the boot.efi files.

Done , i wish that many people will follow because you deserve it

 

[ilegal31]

Next Monday I will have my paypal account ready, I will collaborate also.

Hello,

Yes, the installer boots and installs Yosemite, when it restarts shows the grey screen with the apple logo, also while using the "Option" key on start up I can see several partitions but I can't access none of them, selecting any option takes me to the grey screen with the apple logo.

Thanks.

***Now that I remember, the instructions calls to reaplace the boot.efi in the core services and standalone i386 folders, before installing I had reformatted the hard drive, by reformatting the HD obviously the replaced boot,efi's were lost, I was not suppose to reformat the hard drive? Or I had to install over Mavericks?.

It's no inconvenience, just trying to figure out what's causing the kp. The installer boots and installs without issue?

 

[Hennesie2000]

***Now that I remember, the instructions calls to reaplace the boot.efi in the core services and standalone i386 folders, before installing I had reformatted the hard drive, by reformatting the HD obviously the replaced boot,efi's were lost, I was not suppose to reformat the hard drive? Or I had to install over Mavericks?.

When the installer is done your Mac should reboot to the Yosemite installation with the PikeRAlpha boot.efi files already in their proper places. Doesn't matter if you are installing over Mavericks or installing to a freshly reformatted HDD.

 

[ilegal31]

Hello,


Hennessy2000,


I just don't know what the issue is, I had created the USB installer twice following in detail every step, as you can see on the picture above, Yosemite is installed, I am going back to Lion for now.

Thanks everyone.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Hello,





Hennessy2000,





I just don't know what the issue is, I had created the USB installer twice following in detail every step, as you can see on the picture above, Yosemite is installed, I am going back to Lion for now.



Thanks everyone.

Have you tried installing it to a different HDD? I am at a loss at this point.

 

[MacVidCards]

I have twice now created Yosemite boot drives with great ease.

It is much easier to do the install on a supported machine, then replace the boot.efi files manually.

I was even able to clone the 1,1 boot drive and use on a 2007 Mac Mini. Booted right up. Graphics completely clunky as it is stuck on GMA950, but it's use is for testing WiFI cards meant for other machines, so I live with it.

I have had 0 (zero) issues aside from missing GPU support on Mini.

And that isn't anyone's fault but Apple.

 

[nkyritsis]

Successfully Revived my Mac Pro 1,1

I would like to personally thank all the members of MacRumors Forum and particularly the contributors of this thread, for all the help that they provided during my research for the best way to revive my old Mac Pro 1,1 (2x2,66GHz Xeon, 5GB Ram, Radeon X1900XT 512MB).

I purchased this machine from eBay for about 380$ and with an extra 200$ for an SSD and a flashed ATi Radeon 5770 1GB I managed to breathe life into my "obsolete" (as Apple would say) beastie!

The approach that I used was a mix-and-match of methods described in this thread.

• I replaced the old X1900 XT video card with a new flashed Radeon 5770
• I cloned the HDD of a Yosemite capable Macbook into a new SSD and put it in the Mac Pro
• I booted from the old HDD (Lion 10.7) and I unlocked the boot.efi on the SSD with the Yosemite Install using the command

  sudo chflags nouchg Volumes/SSDYosemite/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

• I made all the hidden files of the system visible using the following commands
  

  defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

  killall Finder (then hit return)

• I replaced the original boot.efi with the latest boot.efi (black edition) provided by Hennesie2000 inside /usr/standalone/i386 and /System/Library/CoreServices
• I locked again the black boot.efi file using Terminal command
  

   sudo chflags uchg Volumes/SSDYosemite/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

• I modified the /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist by adding my BoardID using TextEdit and saved it. In order to find your Board ID ("board-id" = <"Mac-XXX">.) type in Terminal:
  

  ioreg -p IODeviceTree -r -n / -d 1

• I set my SSD (Yosemite) as StartUp disk, restarted and everything worked like a charm.

I even updated my Mac Pro with the latest Update Seed 10.10.1 that was released earlier today and there was no need for replacing again any of the boot.efi files.

Special thanks once again to Tiamo, Hennesie2000 and mikeboss and of course to all the other contributors to this discussion for giving us the chance to enjoy our little Mac Pro beasts with the latest MacOSX releases.

 

[ilegal31]

Hennesie2000,

After you run the script to lock again the boot.efi files. The little lock icon is suposed to show on the left corner of the boot.efi file?. I did not saw the lock icon after running the script to lock the boot.efi file again, that can compromise the installer?.

Thanks.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Hennesie2000,



After you run the script to lock again the boot.efi files. The little lock icon is suposed to show on the left corner of the boot.efi file?. I did not saw the lock icon after running the script to lock the boot.efi file again, that can compromise the installer?.



Thanks.

It is supposed to show after locking it again. Sometimes you have to just click on the file and it will show up.

 

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

I do see questions come up frequently here and elsewhere that are answered in the first post of this thread.

• How can Yosemite run on a 2006/2007 Mac Pro?
• Why doesn't Yosemite run out-of-box on these Mac Pros?
• How does Pike's boot loader work to run Yosemite?
• When would I use a "Hackintosh" boot loader instead?
• How do I get Handoff to work with Continuity on iOS with these Mac Pros?
• What should I worry about with Yosemite and graphics cards in these Mac Pros?
• What do I do with this iMessage/Facetime error after installing Yosemite?

It's all there.

And, if there's anything you think that's missing for any possible direction for someone trying to run Yosemite on a MacPro1,1/MacPro2,1 just let me know and I'll add it to the top post!

 

[ilegal31]

In my case I did clicked on the file but the lock icon was not there, what happens to the installer if the boot.efi file is not properly locked again?.


Thanks.

It is supposed to show after locking it again. Sometimes you have to just click on the file and it will show up.

 

[Hennesie2000]

In my case I did clicked on the file but the lock icon was not there, what happens to the installer if the boot.efi file is not properly locked again?.





Thanks.

I don't think it really matters honestly.

 

[spitfire40]

It is not necessary but I sent you a PM.

BTW, I checked the 10.10.1 beta package and it does not update either of the boot.efi files.

So if none of the boot.efi files were updated that means updating to 10.10.1 should work fine without having to replaced the files again?

 

[Hennesie2000]

So if none of the boot.efi files were updated that means updating to 10.10.1 should work fine without having to replaced the files again?

Correct

 

[tdatsmrad]

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Originally Posted by tdatsmrad View Post
Hello, I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that I have been working on updating. I tried the Sfott method and the chameleon method but neither seemed to work. I finally found the Hennesie2000 method outlined here. I got the closest so far, but still no final download. I followed all the Hennesie instructions. I got to the install Yosemite icon. When I clicked on it, it appeared to start loading, but then I got the following message: "To download and restore OSX, your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple." When I clicked OK, the message stated "Could not find installation information for this machine. Contact AppleCare."
Any suggestions?? Thank you for all your effort in this regard.

When are you clicking on this icon? Did you boot to the drive that you created following my instructions?

Thank you for replying. I have done this twice now, painstakinly creating a USB drive using the instructions. When I re-boot, I hold the option key and then choose the USB Installer. After a while, I get the message "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". When I then reboot back into Lion and go into installer and try to download Yosemite, that is when I get the messages I stated above. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Hennesie2000]

Thank you for replying. I have done this twice now, painstakinly creating a USB drive using the instructions. When I re-boot, I hold the option key and then choose the USB Installer. After a while, I get the message "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". When I then reboot back into Lion and go into installer and try to download Yosemite, that is when I get the messages I stated above. What am I doing wrong?

You won't be able to download Yosemite because the App Store won't let you on an unsupported machine. You have to either torrent it or get it from a supported machine. It sounds like you are not doing something right with the installer because you are getting the "no bootable disk..." error. Also, while in Lion and after you have made the Yosemite installer drive go to System Preferences->Startup Disk and choose the USB installer driver there. Then reboot and do NOT hold option. If it boots to the USB installer then you have done it right. If it doesn't boot or boots back into Lion then there is something wrong either with the way you build the installer or I would suggest trying another thumb drive as they can some times be finicky.

 

[tdatsmrad]

You won't be able to download Yosemite because the App Store won't let you on an unsupported machine. You have to either torrent it or get it from a supported machine. It sounds like you are not doing something right with the installer because you are getting the "no bootable disk..." error. Also, while in Lion and after you have made the Yosemite installer drive go to System Preferences->Startup Disk and choose the USB installer driver there. Then reboot and do NOT hold option. If it boots to the USB installer then you have done it right. If it doesn't boot or boots back into Lion then there is something wrong either with the way you build the installer or I would suggest trying another thumb drive as they can some times be finicky.

OK thanks. When I look in System Preferences > Startup disk , I don't even see the installer. I'll try new USB drive

 

[Hennesie2000]

OK thanks. When I look in System Preferences > Startup disk , I don't even see the installer. I'll try new USB drive

If you don't see it there then it won't boot.

 

[Tower-Union]

Hi everyone, here to beg for some help...

So I followed this thread almost from inception, right up until a couple of brilliant minds had everything reported working. Figured there's no point in further reading until I can get a copy of Yosemite and try it out for myself! (Mac Pro 1,1 running Tiamo's boot.efi installed with SFOTT).

I first went through the step by step guide from Hennessie (being careful to copy/paste the quotation marks) and was able to boot up off the external drive. However when I tried to install - nope, your computer isn't supported. Figured OK, I'll rebuild and try it with SFOTT. Did that, rebooted with the external drive selected (non EFI graphics card here) and.... nothing. It booted up my windows drive instead. Now if I try to remove my windows drive and boot, it will neither boot off the external I created with SFOTT, NOR will it boot my old Mavericks installation. Boo! I'm going to play around and read through the past 20 pages or so, but I thought I'd come here and beg for help first. Will update this post if I get it working!

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Hi everyone, here to beg for some help...



So I followed this thread almost from inception, right up until a couple of brilliant minds had everything reported working. Figured there's no point in further reading until I can get a copy of Yosemite and try it out for myself! (Mac Pro 1,1 running Tiamo's boot.efi installed with SFOTT).



I first went through the step by step guide from Hennessie (being careful to copy/paste the quotation marks) and was able to boot up off the external drive. However when I tried to install - nope, your computer isn't supported. Figured OK, I'll rebuild and try it with SFOTT. Did that, rebooted with the external drive selected (non EFI graphics card here) and.... nothing. It booted up my windows drive instead. Now if I try to remove my windows drive and boot, it will neither boot off the external I created with SFOTT, NOR will it boot my old Mavericks installation. Boo! I'm going to play around and read through the past 20 pages or so, but I thought I'd come here and beg for help first. Will update this post if I get it working!



Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

Reset your PRAM and see if it will boot Mavericks then.

Computer is not supported most likely you missed a quotation mark. I know you copy and pasted but it still happens. Open text edit and go to its preferences and uncheck "smart quotes". Then open up the distribution file and fix any quotes.

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I added a few steps about unchecking the smart quotes to the guide since this is the biggest issue people have.

 

[Tower-Union]

Just attempted that - computer chimed once... and then kept booting right on into Windows. Hmmm.

 

[Hennesie2000]

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

Just attempted that - computer chimed once... and then kept booting right on into Windows. Hmmm.

Can you use the Bootcamp Control Panel in Windows to set Mavericks as the startup disk?

Also, if you reset the PRAM you should hear the boot chime, the hold down cmd+option+P+R until you hear the boot chime again.

 

[MacVidCards]

GT120 for EFI32, simple , cheap and easy Yosemite card

Had some questions and realized that maybe we could do something to help.

Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1 are insanely fortunate in that using Pike's/Tiamo/Hennesie boot.efi only requires a new GPU and you have full compliance. Switching out the WiFi AC /BT 4.0 card makes for a machine that runs like a 2014 Mac. The 2006 -2008 Mini's, MBP, MBA, etc are stuck with ancient GPUs that can't really run with the big boys.

Anyhow, the crucial piece is the GPU. I have seen many posts where people are using 700GTs for boot screens. We at MVC would like to offer some help.

We will be stocking up on low cost Dual DVI GT120 cards for EFI32 machines. Boot screens and basic useable machine. Real 3D acceleration, unlike my Mini with a GMA950, forever mired in the past.

We will soon be offering a MacRumors only discount for readers of this thread. Other people offer similar cards, but they all came from us.

BTW, I would still recommend that a AMD 7950/70 or R9 280X as they offer boot screens and much more powerful graphics. And the more technically oriented can flash these themselves.

 

[fhenry]

Thx MVC ! That's very nice to think about us!