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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

Try to boot with pressed "alt"-key to reach the Bootmenu. Click on your new Installed partition and it should run. If the Mac is booting correct go to prefs and set your Startvolume. At next reboot it should chose the correct partition automatic.
 
ProfDrLuigi said:
Try to boot with pressed "alt"-key to reach the Bootmenu. Click on your new Installed partition and it should run. If the Mac is booting correct go to prefs and set your Startvolume. At next reboot it should chose the correct partition automatic.
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Thanks. I have tried that and it goes to the grey apple logo, then a darker grey blank screen and then if I have the boot usb plugged in, it will go to bios and start the installer. If I dont have it plugged in, it will go to windows bootcamp.
 
hwojtek said:
I believe the bootcamp itself is the culprit. Did you try to install on a OS X-only hard disk?
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I have tried on different target disks but since Bootcamp itself always shows up one of the boot options, it seems to either be taking priority (wghich it shouldnt be doing) or it is the only option that works. Im not sure what can be done for former with the exception of deleting the bootcamp partition.
 
cryingrobot said:
I have tried on different target disks but since Bootcamp itself always shows up one of the boot options, it seems to either be taking priority (wghich it shouldnt be doing) or it is the only option that works. Im not sure what can be done for former with the exception of deleting the bootcamp partition.
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The modified Mavericks installer should be pretty close to the stock installer,
although I've not tried I would have expected that it would work ok with bootcamp.

How exactly did you make the installer, as in which instructions did you follow?

I would be tempted to remake the Mavericks usb installer again, just to make sure that no steps were missed out or files placed in the wrong location, not copied etc...

btw if you have problems booting the usb installer, I've found that when doing the restore step, instead of restoring to the usb memory stick itself I restore to a partition on the memory stick (HFS+, GUID scheme), it seems to have a higher chance of booting successfully.
 
Dark Dragoon said:
The modified Mavericks installer should be pretty close to the stock installer,
although I've not tried I would have expected that it would work ok with bootcamp.

How exactly did you make the installer, as in which instructions did you follow?

I would be tempted to remake the Mavericks usb installer again, just to make sure that no steps were missed out or files placed in the wrong location, not copied etc...

btw if you have problems booting the usb installer, I've found that when doing the restore step, instead of restoring to the usb memory stick itself I restore to a partition on the memory stick (HFS+, GUID scheme), it seems to have a higher chance of booting successfully.
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I made the installer on a usb drive using the linked instructions from the second page of this thread. Basically, dowloaded the Mavericks install file on a Macbook and then step by step. I had several failed attempts but finally worked on a different external drive. Anyway, the boot drive boots up and installs but then on completion, it restarts but will not restsrt into the target drive.
 
One issue I noticed in the boot screen is an error message under Bootcache Control:
"Unable to open var/db/bootcache.playlist: 2. No such file or directory."

But then it continues to boot.
 
splifingate said:
Yup; it works....
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Question for tiamo.

In 'Options.cpp', is:

STATIC UINT32 BlpBootMode = BOOT_MODE_NORMAL | BOOT_MODE_VERBOSE | BOOT_MODE_SKIP_BOARD_ID_CHECK;

where one /c/would replace 'BOOT_MODE_VERBOSE' with 'BOOT_MODE_GRAPH' to compile in graph mode?

Would this then mean that one could press 'V' during startup to enable verbose mode for that session?

Good stuff. Thanks.
 
oemden said:
I successfully installed on MacMini2,1 and MacPro1,1.
this is great I made a small app to automate all this.

Tiamo's did a super great Job

Just input your board_id, your model and the USB key to use and click.
fully automated or step by step. you can even then patch "again" the key to add other computer Boards.
works great. was a personnal challenge to code and as it works fine I though I'd post it in here.

Tiamo thanks again.

If any of you are interested : go there http://oemden.com/?p=556
I've called this little app (shell script bundled in an Applescript App)
SFOTT aka Sixty Four On Thirty Two.

Enjoy as I did.


This is an ongoing Work, but I've tested again and again and it works OK.
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Hi everybody,

I keep on working on this little code it did. version 1.2.7 is there and I corrected minors bugs.

it now multilingual. french and english.

http://oemden.com/?page_id=531

If any German, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Greek, Russian people would like to help for translation, don't hesitate it's "just" a string file so this should be easy.

Enjoy…

Tiamo : A double thanks for your boot ! this has been my trigger to get to coding.
I really want to thank you for that and of course for your boot.efi itself in the first place.

This was a personnal challenge for me and from 3-4 single lines of code, it has become quite big and I did not sleep a lot since you posted this...
But I really really enjoy it.

my best

oem
 
oemden said:
Hi everybody,

I keep on working on this little code it did. version 1.2.7 is there and I corrected minors bugs.

it now multilingual. french and english.

http://oemden.com/?page_id=531

If any German, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Greek, Russian people would like to help for translation, don't hesitate it's "just" a string file so this should be easy.

Enjoy…

Tiamo : A double thanks for your boot ! this has been my trigger to get to coding.
I really want to thank you for that and of course for your boot.efi itself in the first place.

This was a personnal challenge for me and from 3-4 single lines of code, it has become quite big and I did not sleep a lot since you posted this...
But I really really enjoy it.

my best

oem
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I was not clear what at this did. Does it take a pre existing boot and the patch it so it can run mavericks? Does it create a brand new boot key?
 
This is amazing !
My Mac Pro 1,1 with Apple's Radeon HD 5770 runs Mavericks.
And according to NovaBench It runs even faster then Lion.

tiamo, MILES OF THANKS !!!
 
Please help

I have a MacPro 1.1 and followed the instructions to create a Maveriks boot/install disk. I used oemden's script. The computer starts up, I get to the screen where I can select what I want to do, but when I select to install the OS, it tells me that it has to connect to the internet in order to install. Any help would be appreciated.
 
mikeboss said:
I got me an ORICO on e*ay for USD 17.80 shipping from hong-kong included. look for seller sales_dsehk and card ORICO Desktop PCI-E USB 3.0 x 2 Port Express Card [PFU3-2P]. NO additional driver needed. just plug&play. doesn't even need addtional power to be connected.
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Nice, I gotta get me one of those! Any reason not to go for one of the 4 port options?
 
Here we go, 10.9.1 is out. Who has the guts to test it?

It's already in Software Update...
 
OK, no problems with the 10.9.1 update. I am now typing on it after the reboot. This was on a Mac Pro 1,1 on a single-drive installation.

I'm not going to try to on my main drive yet (which is a RAID0 array) until I have a full clone done. Who knows what might happen on an array! LOL...
 
help

I found how to change this one System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi, I can't find how to change the usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi can I get help. I got a 06 mac pro. Also how can i find the Xcode so I can get the fps so I can change the board ID? Thanks
 
10.9.1

Same here, no problems with update.

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wiggy78 said:
I found how to change this one System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi, I can't find how to change the usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi can I get help. I got a 06 mac pro. Also how can i find the Xcode so I can get the fps so I can change the board ID? Thanks
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You replace the boot.efi files on the USB stick containing the Mavericks installer. Look for the usr folder. Download Xcode from the Apple store. Sign up as a developer at Apple's developer web sited. Find the additional software and then auxiliary tools mackpackage. After installing the software, control click on the icon and choose show package contents. In the resources folder, you will find the flat package editor. You can find all these instruction earlier in the thread.
 
lurkingbf said:
I finally managed to solve this annoying issue. I read numerous posts on the Apple forums, and found some users from last year who had the same issue in ML. In order to resolve the issue, they disconnected their ethernet and/or wi-fi, and made an Internet connection via a USB connection with their iPhones. I couldn't imagine why this should work but, lo and behold, I tried it for fun and...it worked instantly! So all my iCloud stuff is now properly set up.
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Nice one! That would be almost a deal-breaker not to have sync capabilities in Mavericks. So do you have to tether/hotspot via the iPhone for just the initial setup, or every time you want to sync? I'm assuming it's the former. Cheers
 
10.9.1 installed without a hitch. As far as I was able to examine the package using Pacifist, none of the files which are modified in order to boot Mavericks on 1,1/2,1 is included in the 10.9.1 update. Also, the Trim Enabler didn't need to be reapplied as well.
 
10.9.1

10.9.1 A.O.K.

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Would this then mean that one could press 'V' during startup to enable verbose mode for that session?
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Answered that Q myself on restart with a Command+v...
 
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