Received an original Mac Pro (by mistake from an idiot seller) and now just trying to make something of it. The Mac originally booted into Recovery Mode for Lion, and there was a MacOS and a Bootcamp partition...with nothing on them. The Lion Recovery Servers were down (or just inaccessible by default?), and I couldn't unmount the drive to wipe (as it's in use). I yanked the drive, wiped it on another Mac, and after reinserting tried to boot from both a Snow Leopard Installer CD and a Lion Installer USB drive...but holding option just boots to a blank screen. Not frozen, as I can move the cursor around, but nothing appears to select.
I then installed Lion onto the wiped hard drive using my Mac Pro 5,1 (I know this isn't recommended, but I was desperate at this point). After putting the drive back in the Mac Pro 1,1 I tried to boot. I got an Apple logo and a spinning loading icon...it did this for 5-10 minutes then restarted...no dice.
So I have no idea what I can do to get into this computer. I think I recall booting into Internet Recovery Mode and changing the date via terminal so the Recovery Server certificates are no longer expired...but unless this is the only option I'd like to troubleshoot further.
EDIT: Top Disc Drive is defective; put disc in bottom and working fine.
I then installed Lion onto the wiped hard drive using my Mac Pro 5,1 (I know this isn't recommended, but I was desperate at this point). After putting the drive back in the Mac Pro 1,1 I tried to boot. I got an Apple logo and a spinning loading icon...it did this for 5-10 minutes then restarted...no dice.
So I have no idea what I can do to get into this computer. I think I recall booting into Internet Recovery Mode and changing the date via terminal so the Recovery Server certificates are no longer expired...but unless this is the only option I'd like to troubleshoot further.
EDIT: Top Disc Drive is defective; put disc in bottom and working fine.
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