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

[lurkingbf]

You need to do the restart that you, for some reason, chose not to do. The launch daemon was installed but it wasn't running yet. So when you installed 10.10.2 it over wrote the boot.efi files again. With TobyG's original script he recommended rebooting twice but the second time wad just to verify that it was working by checking the timestamp on the boot.efi files.

OK. Perhaps I simply misunderstood the functionality of the script and associated files, and its operation order. I will give it one more try.

But, again, checking the folders where boot.efi resides clearly shows that the script did run, because the boot.fi files located therein are the modded files (not the Apple original). Also, when I attempt to simply insert the modded boot.fi files to their proper locations (as another forum member reported successfully doing), I still had no luck.

In short, the modded boot.efi files are properly in place, but I still can't boot. But I'll give it another whirl. Hell, I've already reinstalled 10.10 twice, what's one more time?

Thanks.

 

[fraserrr]

A little help required!

Hi All,

I wonder if anyone could give me a little assistance? I have been trying to get mavericks (and now yosemite) running on my MacPro 1 1 and havent had a great deal of luck at all, unfortunately the graphics card i have is the standard 7300GT, in actual fact i have 7 Mac Pro 1 1's so i have tried the various steps on several of these machines with no luck at all (but have ruled out any hardware problems with any one of the machines!), none of them have OS's (at least that i can get access to) on them as they were decommissioned from a company and given to me by a friend!

I'll skip to the chase, im currently trying to install Yosemite using the premade dmg file that was provided on this thread, i have tried restoring it to a couple of different USB flash devices, and also an SSD in a 2.5" to USB caddy - all of which boot and do the same thing, they boot with the apple logo, a small progress bar underneath, which gets to about 1/3 - 1/2 way then the screen blanks and goes a pale white colour, nothing further then happens! Any suggestions?

I do also have a GTX460, a GTX560 TI, and a GT220, all of which i have tried using and get no video output (i understand this is correct at boot).

Any suggestions as to where i am going wrong? Thanks in advance!

 

[rorymac03]

10.10.2 Update Successful, Mac Pro 1,1

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot! I installed the patch then 10.10.2 from the Mac App Store, it worked great.

I just want to make sure I'm clear...this will now work for all updates in the future, I won't have to install or modify these again (including the eventual OS X 10.11)?

 

[Hennesie2000]

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

Hi guys,



Thanks a lot! I installed the patch then 10.10.2 from the Mac App Store, it worked great.



I just want to make sure I'm clear...this will now work for all updates in the future, I won't have to install or modify these again (including the eventual OS X 10.11)?

You won't need to for 10.10.X but it is likely 10.11.0 will need a new boot.efi.

 

[lurkingbf]

You need to do the restart that you, for some reason, chose not to do. The launch daemon was installed but it wasn't running yet. So when you installed 10.10.2 it over wrote the boot.efi files again. With TobyG's original script he recommended rebooting twice but the second time wad just to verify that it was working by checking the timestamp on the boot.efi files.

OK, I installed the patch file, this time ensuring to reboot a couple of times to make sure it's working (it was). I then went to the app store and downloaded 10.10.2 and let it install and reboot. Same result: 10.10.2 will not boot. I can easily check the boot.efi files on the Yosemite drive, and it's clear to see via the timestamps and the file size that the launch script worked fine. The modded boot.efi files are in place where they should be.

Clearly something else is going on here, although I have no idea what it could be.

Possibly of note is the fact that my Yosemite drive is a three-drive SSD RAID 0 array, although this has never been an issue previously through Mavericks and up to Yosemite 10.10.1.

Again, at a loss. Might be looking at a totally fresh Yosemite reinstall some time soon? Maybe some previous hack files are floating around causing issues?

Thanks.

 

[rorymac03]

You won't need to for 10.10.X but it is likely 10.11.0 will need a new boot.efi.

Thanks for clarifying Hennesie2000, I'm brand new to this scene after getting my hands on a Mac Pro 1,1 recently.

 

[Ih8reno]

Hi guys'

I've installed yosemite on my 2006 mac pro took me 4 weeks but managed it, shows you how poor iam at this stuff lol. everything fine except wifi greyed out which is not needed anyway but my usb's front and rear not working apart from my keyboard which is usb and plugged into middle usb at back and works anyone got ANY ideas please just to at least try. BIG THANKYOU TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS HAPPEN ..



oh I've tried smc and pram and run kext utility THANX IN ADVANCE.



IM NEW TO THIS STUFF , HOPE THIS GETS ADDED TO THIS TREAD OK

I also have the dead usb problem, anybody figure this out?

 

[davemen]

White screen on install

Hi All,

I wonder if anyone could give me a little assistance? I have been trying to get mavericks (and now yosemite) running on my MacPro 1 1 and havent had a great deal of luck at all, unfortunately the graphics card i have is the standard 7300GT, in actual fact i have 7 Mac Pro 1 1's so i have tried the various steps on several of these machines with no luck at all (but have ruled out any hardware problems with any one of the machines!), none of them have OS's (at least that i can get access to) on them as they were decommissioned from a company and given to me by a friend!

I'll skip to the chase, im currently trying to install Yosemite using the premade dmg file that was provided on this thread, i have tried restoring it to a couple of different USB flash devices, and also an SSD in a 2.5" to USB caddy - all of which boot and do the same thing, they boot with the apple logo, a small progress bar underneath, which gets to about 1/3 - 1/2 way then the screen blanks and goes a pale white colour, nothing further then happens! Any suggestions?

I do also have a GTX460, a GTX560 TI, and a GT220, all of which i have tried using and get no video output (i understand this is correct at boot).

Any suggestions as to where i am going wrong? Thanks in advance!

Yep. I had the exact same problem. No one seems to have a solution to this one.

 

[-texan-]

Same here with the update patcher

1. Trim Enabler: remove; computer restart

2. Update 10.10.2; computer restart

3. Trim Enabler: activate and restart

4. Success!

Same procedure - No problem at all.

Thanks

 

[Hennesie2000]

Yep. I had the exact same problem. No one seems to have a solution to this one.

The only time I have seen this issue personally is on my hackintosh when running with the CPU overclocked. My USB ports are dead after it wakes up from sleep.

 

[gavonder]

Same here with the update patcher

1. Trim Enabler: remove; computer restart

2. Update 10.10.2; computer restart

3. Trim Enabler: activate and restart

4. Success!

First I want to thank everyone - I have Yosemite running on my Mac Pro 1.1.
I also have it on an SSD. So, I am wondering if Trim Enabler is needed, & if the normal version is ok or is there some "hacked" version for this application?

Thanks
GA

 

[davy39]

Does anyone know how to get rid of this error while trying to install ?

"OS X Yosemite is already installed on this Mac."

Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks

 

[fraserrr]

Yep. I had the exact same problem. No one seems to have a solution to this one.

Well i found a sortof solution (for me anyway), skipped Yosemite for the moment, and plugged the SSD i had into my macbook retina, then copied the modified boot.efi into both locations, booted fine with 7300GT, few odd graphics glitches, powered down, threw in the GTX560TI, few moments of black screen followed by the sweet desktop of success! So i'm halfway there, just need to do the same with the new OS!

 

[dfritchie]

Success on Mac Pro 1,1 with 5770

Attaching screenshot. 10.10.2. Notice that I lose my optical drives after a time, and everytime the mac goes to sleep it wakes up without the superdrive or Blu-ray drive.

 

[Hennesie2000]

Attaching screenshot. 10.10.2. Notice that I lose my optical drives after a time, and everytime the mac goes to sleep it wakes up without the superdrive or Blu-ray drive.

Try turning off "Put hard disk to sleep when possible" in the Energy Saver preferences.

 

[charlan7]

First I want to thank everyone - I have Yosemite running on my Mac Pro 1.1.
I also have it on an SSD. So, I am wondering if Trim Enabler is needed, & if the normal version is ok or is there some "hacked" version for this application?

Thanks
GA

1, Trim Enabler is need for better performance.

2. Normal version is Ok

3. Before upgrading (for example to 10.10.3), turn off Trim Enabler, reboot and then upgrade to 10.10.3, reboot, turn on Trim Enabler, reboot.

 

[dfritchie]

Try turning off "Put hard disk to sleep when possible" in the Energy Saver preferences.

That was the first thing I tried, sometimes it says "you have inserted a blank disc" when it completes the boot up, then won't recognize the drives are even installed. the superdrive is apple supplied ide dvd, the blu-ray is pioneer sata drive installed in lower bay with OWC sata cable.
I install Yosemite with the .dmg found here on a extra hard drive in bay 3 ( not my primary boot drive that has 10.7.5 ).

 

[Hennesie2000]

That was the first thing I tried, sometimes it says "you have inserted a blank disc" when it completes the boot up, then won't recognize the drives are even installed. the superdrive is apple supplied ide dvd, the blu-ray is pioneer sata drive installed in lower bay with OWC sata cable.

I install Yosemite with the .dmg found here on a extra hard drive in bay 3 ( not my primary boot drive that has 10.7.5 ).

I never had that issue on my Mac pro with the same ODDs add you. Didn't see this issue till I went hackintosh. Turning off that option is what fixed it for me.

 

[kuglepen]

OK, I installed the patch file, this time ensuring to reboot a couple of times to make sure it's working (it was). I then went to the app store and downloaded 10.10.2 and let it install and reboot. Same result: 10.10.2 will not boot. I can easily check the boot.efi files on the Yosemite drive, and it's clear to see via the timestamps and the file size that the launch script worked fine. The modded boot.efi files are in place where they should be.

Clearly something else is going on here, although I have no idea what it could be.

Possibly of note is the fact that my Yosemite drive is a three-drive SSD RAID 0 array, although this has never been an issue previously through Mavericks and up to Yosemite 10.10.1.

Again, at a loss. Might be looking at a totally fresh Yosemite reinstall some time soon? Maybe some previous hack files are floating around causing issues?

Thanks.

Pretty sure it’s the RAID causing this.

 

[MacDann]

Another satisfied customer! Used the latest 666sheep script and updated to 10.2.2 without incident.

I can't thank the folks like 666sheep, tiamo, Hennesie2000, Pike, Tobyg and all the others enough who have worked to make our Mac Pros functional under the latest OS'.

Thanks, everybody!

For reference I'm running a Mac Pro 1,1 flashed to 2,1, quad 2.6 GHz 5365 CPUs, 14GB RAM, 120GB SSD for a boot drive, 480GB SSD data drive, 500GB mechanical drive, ATI 5870 1GB graphics card, Apple BT and WiFI cards.

MacDann

 

[robogobo]

This is EXACTLY like when Indiana Jones has to replace the skull idol with the bag of sand...

I just installed Tobyg's script, and then saw the part about no longer needing to rename the files. Is that true? I just install the script and... then what? Restart and download 10.10.2 from the app store? or the opposite?

 

[davemen]

White Screen on Install of Yosemite

Well i found a sortof solution (for me anyway), skipped Yosemite for the moment, and plugged the SSD i had into my macbook retina, then copied the modified boot.efi into both locations, booted fine with 7300GT, few odd graphics glitches, powered down, threw in the GTX560TI, few moments of black screen followed by the sweet desktop of success! So i'm halfway there, just need to do the same with the new OS!

I went out and bought a new internal hard disk and then restored the piker file to that drive with the same error. So I think Piker must not work with something on these machines.

 

[Hennesie2000]

This is EXACTLY like when Indiana Jones has to replace the skull idol with the bag of sand...

I just installed Tobyg's script, and then saw the part about no longer needing to rename the files. Is that true? I just install the script and... then what? Restart and download 10.10.2 from the app store? or the opposite?

If you installed Tobyg's original script then that will NOT work with Yosemite. You must rename the files as in post #1584. Alternatively you can install the modified script from 666Sheep and you don't have to rename any files.

 

[MacDann]

This is EXACTLY like when Indiana Jones has to replace the skull idol with the bag of sand...

I just installed Tobyg's script, and then saw the part about no longer needing to rename the files. Is that true? I just install the script and... then what? Restart and download 10.10.2 from the app store? or the opposite?

Use this method:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20533461/

You just run the script and restart, then install the updated 10.10.2 from the App Store.

MacDann

 

[robogobo]

If you installed Tobyg's original script then that will NOT work with Yosemite. You must rename the files as in post #1584. Alternatively you can install the modified script from 666Sheep and you don't have to rename any files.

OK that's what I did. I would have gotten the poison darts well before I even reached the idol, for sure.

You guys are awesome.