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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

phxmac said:
I'm sorry, maybe this was mentioned somewhere or was otherwise obvious- but what OS are you guys upgrading from when you run this installer? Can you run this from Snow Leopard or do you have to be running Lion?

I'm considering starting over with an SSD as a boot drive and was wondering if I could just install SL on the boot drive, put the Mavericks installer in the Applications folder and run this script.
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You should be able to create the modified usb Mavericks installer on a Mac running Snow Leopard or newer. Older if you already have the mavericks app downloaded.

For installing onto the Mac Pro 1,1/2,1 then it shouldn't matter what is currently on it, I installed onto a completely clean system with nothing on it.
 
Time Machine and sleep problems…

I’ve been using 10.9.1 for some days now, and a few issues have surfaced.
1) The Mac will not go to sleep. Only the display is turned off, the mac itself keeps running regardless. I’ve reset the SMC and the NVRAM but that didn’t help. I only have one card in the machine, a Radeon HD 5770, and it’s placed in slot 1. :confused:

2) Time Machine does not allow me to go back in time when it is supposed to. The Time Machine interface loads and I can click on past dates in the right side timeline, but Time Machine never 'zooms' back to that selected date (or any date for that matter). Going into the Time Machine back-up volume through the Finder I can get to those files. :confused:
 
kuglepen said:
I’ve been using 10.9.1 for some days now, and a few issues have surfaced.
1) The Mac will not go to sleep. Only the display is turned off, the mac itself keeps running regardless. I’ve reset the SMC and the NVRAM but that didn’t help. I only have one card in the machine, a Radeon HD 5770, and it’s placed in slot 1. :confused:
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All of the issues I had on my Mac Pro 1,1 were related to sleep. It seems that I have resolved most of them with the following:

1) Try: System Preferences-->Energy Saver-->Default Settings. Reboot once this is done, and once restarted, reset your energy preferences to where you want them. I have no idea why this should do anything, but it did seem to solve the majority of the sleep-related issues.

2) Check the console app to ensure no apps are deferring the sleep process. In my case, the Skype app was doing this and, once I shut it down, the computer went to sleep at the allotted time.

Sorry I can't help you on your second point. Time Machine working fine here.
 
kuglepen said:
1) The Mac will not go to sleep.
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Within terminal type:

pmset -g

you'll get something like this (i've colored in red)

Active Profiles:
UPS Power -1
AC Power -1*
Currently in use:
hibernatemode 0
womp 0
networkoversleep 0
sleep 1 (sleep prevented by UserEventAgent)
Sleep On Power Button 1
ttyskeepawake 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
autorestart 0
disksleep 0
displaysleep 1

Edit: Found where i read the above:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15790642#15790642
 
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Just wanted to thank MacRumors and the SFOTT, tiamo Team. This is the Best Christmas Gift You can ever provide me. You saved me $Thousands of Dollars$$.

Im Running on a Mac Pro 1.1, with a ATI Graphic Card, Upgraded to Mavericks 9.1 and everything is running smoothly, It feels like a brand new machine, I just bought at the Apple Store.

I was thinking about spending $3,000-$5000 on the new mac Pro because i could not upgrade to Mavericks and was stuck on Lion 10.7.5 and i don't want to be on a old OS, especially when you have malware and hackers, they love exploiting old Operating systems because people rarely upgrade often

This upgrade will give my mac pro another 4-5 Year Life Span, and i bought my mac pro in 2007, so right now i had my computer for 7 Years and now will be extended to 12 Years of Service, Well Worth the Money, The Mac Pro is the best computer i ever bought in my life and it stood the test of time.


I will upgrade in maybe 5 Years, By then Apple will have the 4K Displays and the Mac Pro will be even faster. No need to rush out
 
lurkingbf said:
All of the issues I had on my Mac Pro 1,1 were related to sleep. It seems that I have resolved most of them with the following:

1) Try: System Preferences-->Energy Saver-->Default Settings. Reboot once this is done, and once restarted, reset your energy preferences to where you want them. I have no idea why this should do anything, but it did seem to solve the majority of the sleep-related issues.

2) Check the console app to ensure no apps are deferring the sleep process. In my case, the Skype app was doing this and, once I shut it down, the computer went to sleep at the allotted time.

Sorry I can't help you on your second point. Time Machine working fine here.
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Thanks, tried it but no dice.
 
Peloche said:
Within terminal type:

pmset -g

you'll get something like this (i've colored in red)

Active Profiles:
UPS Power -1
AC Power -1*
Currently in use:
hibernatemode 0
womp 0
networkoversleep 0
sleep 1 (sleep prevented by UserEventAgent)
Sleep On Power Button 1
ttyskeepawake 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
autorestart 0
disksleep 0
displaysleep 1

Edit: Found where i read the above:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15790642#15790642
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Thanks, tried it and got various MDS processes, iTunes, coreaudiod, and UserEventAgent listed depending on when ran the command. Running
Code: 
pmset -g assertions
gave me:
Code: 
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 1
   PreventDiskIdle                0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   InteractivePushServiceTask     0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 105(mds): [0x0000000c00000135] 00:26:45 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.metadata.mds.power" 
   pid 200(coreaudiod): [0x00000001000001b9] 00:06:26 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,4:2'.noidlesleep" 
   pid 200(coreaudiod): [0x00000001000001b7] 00:06:27 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'AppleUSBAudioEngine:Apple Inc.:Display Audio:2487EA02:2,1'.noidlesleep" 
   pid 671(iTunes): [0x00000001000001b8] 00:06:26 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.iTunes.playback" 
   pid 114(hidd): [0x0000000a00000176] 00:25:34 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle" 
	Timeout will fire in 575 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
   pid 11(UserEventAgent): [0x0000000c00000136] 00:26:45 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.metadata.mds.power" 
Kernel Assertions: 0xc=USB,BT-HID
   id=500  level=255 0x4=USB mod=27/12/13 19.32 description=EHCI owner=AppleUSBEHCI
   id=506  level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/70 01.00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=BNBMouseDevice

Hmm. I then tried to press the physical power-button on the Mac Pro until the dialogue-window asking me if I wanted to shut down, sleep, &c came up, then I pressed "Sleep" and waited. After ~60s the Mac did go to sleep. I shall try to narrow the culprit down in the future, but it could be a lot of things. I have Last.FM, "I love Stars", and ByteController running and they all influence iTunes I’m hypothesising here…
 
kuglepen said:
Thanks, tried it but no dice.
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Is it an EFI 5770 or unflashed PC one?
I have flashed 5850 in my 1,1/2,1 MP with 10.9.1 w/tiamo's boot.efi and it sleeps like a child (with about 15s delay from pushing power button). I have "allow power button to put the computer to sleep" ticked in Energy Saver.
 
I can also tell Mavericks Uses the GPU heavy, I can hear my graphic card fan. I also ordered some Ram from OWC. Max my machine to 32GB, That should hold me up for a few years.
 
666sheep said:
Is it an EFI 5770 or unflashed PC one?
I have flashed 5850 in my 1,1/2,1 MP with 10.9.1 w/tiamo's boot.efi and it sleeps like a child (with about 15s delay from pushing power button). I have "allow power button to put the computer to sleep" ticked in Energy Saver.
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It’s a true Apple firmware 5770, and the Mac Pro is 2,1 (no flashed from 1,1).
I don’t have the option to "allow power button to put the computer to sleep" in my "Energy Saver" prefs-panel, but I can use the hardware button it would seem.
 
Still waiting for root device

I've tried three different USB drives and even an internal SATA drive. When I try to boot off the install disk, my computer "Still waiting for root device" over and over.

I'm running a Mac Pro 2,1 with a Radeon 5770.

I first tried running createinstallmedia, but that didn't seem to work (incomplete installation), so now I'm following the instructions here: http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

I've checked the permissions on the boot.efi files. I verified that I'm updating OSInstall.mpkg successfully. I tried reblessing the drive. I tried removing my SSD and 3rd party host controller. I unplugged everything but my keyboard (and then my keyboard!). I verified the disk using Disk Utility. I reset the PRAM. Nothing helps.

Maybe a recent Mavericks update broke something? Any more ideas?
 
Nevermind

I got it to work!

1. Using my Laptop (which supports Mavericks), I installed Mavericks to an external drive.

2. On my '06 Mac Pro, I used Drive Utility to "restore" the external drive to my internal drive.

3. I replaced boot.efi in the two places on the internal drive.

4. I restarted, and it works great! Great job, tiamo!
 
When i used the Chameleon method i could use audio through Mini Display Port connected to my iMac, now i doesn't work any more, any solution to that? i think there was a .dsdt file
 
Mac Pro 2006 now running Mavericks :)

I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank Tiamo and SFOTT. This is pure genius and works 100%.

From start to finish I think the whole process took about 2.5 hours. The longest part was writing the edited installer to the USB flash drive. I even decided to try it out on a 40GB IDE drive sat under my optical drive as a test before wiping my Chameleon-supported 10.8 installation.

My 2006 Mac Pro (flashed 1GB 4870, up-rev to Mac Pro 2,1, x5355 octo core with 13GB of RAM) now sings while running 10.9.1 and still displays boot screen. Absolutely great work.

I even installed Steam and played Half Life 2 for about an hour - not a problem :)

One interesting thing: when I wake from sleep, the CPU fan spools up for about 20 seconds, something it didn't do while running 10.7. Any ideas? Not a problem as far as I'm concerned..

Tiamo AND oemden, could you please PM me, I'd like to donate through PayPal for your hard work.

FireArse
 
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MacBookPro 2,2 now running Maverick

tiamo,
Incredible work, well done! I took a clone of Mavericks from my 2011 MBP 8,2 and just replaced both boot.efi files, then I cloned that into the MBP2,2. hard Drive, boom, done, boots, everything works.
I was also able to update to Maverick 10.9.1 using the regular update.

Thanks so much
 
Dark Dragoon said:
On mine, on the installation media I went into the folder:
System > Installation > Packages

Then opened the InstallableMachines.plist file in Xcode.
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I'm trying to use this process to install Mountain Lion on my Mac Pro 2,1 with an unflashed GTX 570. This file doesn't seem to exist anywhere. Is it specific to Mavericks?
 
jmaynard said:
I'm trying to use this process to install Mountain Lion on my Mac Pro 2,1 with an unflashed GTX 570. This file doesn't seem to exist anywhere. Is it specific to Mavericks?
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It might well be. Besides, chances are Tiamo's boot.efi won't be fine-tuned for ML or that it won't work at all in that environment. I can't think of a reason why you would rather install ML than Mavericks.
 
I have Mavericks running on my 1,1 thanks to SFOTT and Tiamo's work.

I did want to point out something about oemden's SFOTT tho. I tried creating the USB stick when I was on 10.8 using Chameleon and SFOTT wasn't able to recognize the Mac as being a MP 1,1 so it didn't fill in the machine id and serial fields, creating just a vanilla Mavericks installer. I had to boot an old laptop running 10.6.8 up in TDM and use that to create the installer. After that it worked nicely.

YMMV obviously but I thought I'd share my experience since it sounds like some folks might have run into this already.
 
jmaynard said:
I'm trying to use this process to install Mountain Lion on my Mac Pro 2,1 with an unflashed GTX 570. This file doesn't seem to exist anywhere. Is it specific to Mavericks?
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I think it may depend on how you created the installation media.
Though I don't know whether it does exist on a Mountain Lion installer, I would expect it to though.
I've not installed Mountain Lion on my Mac Pro.
 
Back to install menu

Hey Guys,
I have a 2007 2.1 8 core mac pro. 11 gb Ram. 256 ssd drive.
I've done everything as said in the tutorial, it installs right, says the installation was successful but then comes back over and over to the installation menu even without the pen.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
M
 
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