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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

eyseman said:
thanks for the quick answer. It seems that you have a newer airport extreme than I have. Mine does not support the N-draft and has an Atheros chipset and not a Broadcom one. Therefore, I would conclude that my problem is chipset related.
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Thats interesting, when did you get your Mac Pro?
Did you special order the Mac Pro with the WiFi and Bluetooth cards from Apple, or was it upgraded later?

I pre-ordered my Mac Pro but had it replaced after a week or so, with the replacement being delivered around 13th September 2006 (give or take a few days).

As for 802.11n, all Mac Pros with WiFi cards from Apple should have that. It is just that the very first ones (including mine) were sold as only supporting 802.11a/b/g. It was later on that Apple let you buy a software unlock (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2447) to enable 802.11n on these early machines.


I wonder whether anyone else on here can confirm which Apple wireless cards their Mac Pro came with.
 
Dark Dragoon said:
Thats interesting, when did you get your Mac Pro?
Did you special order the Mac Pro with the WiFi and Bluetooth cards from Apple, or was it upgraded later?

I pre-ordered my Mac Pro but had it replaced after a week or so, with the replacement being delivered around 13th September 2006 (give or take a few days).

As for 802.11n, all Mac Pros with WiFi cards from Apple should have that. It is just that the very first ones (including mine) were sold as only supporting 802.11a/b/g. It was later on that Apple let you buy a software unlock (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2447) to enable 802.11n on these early machines.


I wonder whether anyone else on here can confirm which Apple wireless cards their Mac Pro came with.
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Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.16)
 
666sheep said:
Same here. My MP has stock BCM94321MC a/b/g/n card. These Atheros based a/b/g cards are from Core Duo MacBook Pros.
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got me here ;)

I bought the MacPro from my university about one year ago as it replaced the old ones with new ones. As I had still my broken MBP around I installed its card as the MacPro came without the Airport Extreme.
 
Which Bootmenu to use?

Hi guys.

Thanks to this great effort of Tiamo, I now can boot directly to Mavericks without Chameleon.

My problem is now threefold:
1.) For my linux installation, I need some boot menu, because the Mac boot screen doesn't like that. Even if I drop that installation, that I installed just for fun and for testing, the following problem remains.
2.) My Windows 7 installation was installed by an EFI install, because Bootcamp doesn't work. So now I need Chameleon around, because Windows 7 doesn't seem to like the BIOS emulation mode of the Mac.
3.) My Apple HD 5770 shows the Mac boot screen only when a VGA monitor is connected. The quality of VGA is, let's say, subpar. And some games can't be used with full resolution on VGA.

So I want to have DVI, which needs to be initialized before I can choose the OS to boot. That job was done by Chameleon, which I wouldn't need any more.
Does someone have any advice, which tool to use? Clover? Grub2? Has anyone any experience with any of those on an Mac
 
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follow this guide to get a proper EFI bootmenu for your Linux installation ->
http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2830

to get Windows 7 64bit running without a bootloader, you'll have to create a special install DVD ->
http://glennstevenson.com/Blog/TabId/1115/PostId/4/Install-Windows-7-64-Bit-On-Mac-Pro.aspx
http://superuser.com/questions/20646/how-do-i-install-windows-7-64-bit-on-a-mac-using-bootcamp
http://www.iruberleet.org/2011/10/12/fixing-select-cd-rom-boot-type-when-installing-64bit-windows/

if your Radeon 5770 doesn't show the bootmenu when connected via DVI it's not an Apple one. this is typical behavior of flashed PC cards (only working when connected through VGA). I own two MacPros, each with an Apple 5770 and they work flawless.
 
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Mac Pro 1.1 is not booting anymore; Kernel Panic

Hi,

first of all thank you very much for putting so much effort and time into this!

I created a USB Device with SFOTT "Sixty Four On Thirty Two". I could easily install mavericks and it did run fine, I tested everything and was very happy thanks to you guys.

But now it won't start anymore, on the apple boot screen it restarts itself and shows a Kernel Panic.

I would really appreciate, if someone could "read" that Kernel Panic and tell me whats wrong!

Where is the Tip-Jar in this forum, seriously? ;-)

I can't even boot from the SFOTT stick it always restarts itself :-(

Is there a way where I can get back to Lion at this point?

Attached you find the Kernel Panic.

Thank you very much!

David

P.S.:It is upgraded to firmware 2.1, because I upgraded it to 8 cores, which also did run fine in the beginning.

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Looks to me as if you have an issue with the Ethernet drivers.

As with all problems, the first question is what has changed since it worked? have you put a new Ethernet card in (unlikely as the MacPro has 2 Gigabit ports)> Have you added a wifi card? Or Bluetooth? Have you added some Kexts at all? have you tweaked something?

Whilst your Ethernet cards could have gone bust, I'd be pretty surprised as this sort of stuff just normally works.

So think carefully, what has changed? An upgrade get installed? You booted by accident from a different stick? You added a kext?

Hope that helps,

Rob.
 
Hi Rob,

thanks for you quick response!

1. I Just installed FCPX and Logic and looked how they work, and enjoyed the speed that Mavericks delivers!

2. I have not added/changed anything hardware wise or tweaked something. I also do not even know how to add Kext.

3. In the Kernel Panic there is also written:

Mac OS version:
not yet set

is that normal?

4. I also can not boot into the apple hardware test to see see if something is wrong.

5. I can not open my DVD drive to see if I can boot from the Lion DVD.

6. All I can do is holding alt to select from three devices to boot from; I have my main boot drive, the recovery partition and the SFOTT USB stick from which I installed Mavericks.
All three boot into the Kernel Panic

7. Im a bit in panic because I can not access my data right now :eek:

Thanks you very much for your help and the nice atmosphere in this forum!

Best regards,

David

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In the Kernel Panic in the 8th row (last row of the first passage) there is written:

Fault CPU

I have upgraded my CPU's prior to the Mavericks Update and they went fine under Lion and as well under Mavericks.
 
if you don't know how to install a kext then thats gone.

Did the issue occur immediately after installing FCP X? I also use FCP X but not Logic. FCP just works so that shouldn't be the issue.

No idea about Mac OS X not yet set. How long has this system run using Mavericks? Five mins or five weeks. If its only just been installed, ie. it ran for a few mins, then I would suspect that the installation is wrong. If its been working for weeks then its not that.

The lack of booting into all the other stuff is a symptom of the main problem (whatever that is).

have you changed any of the hard disks? have you unseated anything? You should be able to boot from the USB stick again though, so thats a worry. have you tried to boot from the stick?

Rob
 
Hey Rob,

thanks for your time!

The system was running for last evening the first time, so for about 3 hours, I also did some restarts and everything worked fine.

I started the Mac this morning and got that Kernel Panic.

I did not changed any hard disk.

I can not even boot from the stick, it boots into the same Kernel Panic.

I could try installing an empty hard disk, and see if that changes something, but since I can not even boot from the stick it would not make sense.

Regards,

David
 
mikeboss said:
if your Radeon 5770 doesn't show the bootmenu when connected via DVI it's not an Apple one. this is typical behavior of flashed PC cards (only working when connected through VGA). I own two MacPros, each with an Apple 5770 and they work flawless.
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Well, then I got scammed. I thought that this a problem of the card having an EFI64, which doesn't work with the EFI32 of the MacPro. I researched that before buying and I read that it's that way for Apple cards.
Is there a way to make it a "true" Apple card?
 
rwillett said:
The lack of booting into all the other stuff is a symptom of the main problem (whatever that is).

Rob
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I have just replaced my boot disk with a spare HDD and took out my BluRay drive and manually inserted the Lion DVD. I am now installing Lion (7 Minutes left).

The main problem seems to be software related, so it refers to the main thread title, because right now I do not have Kernel Panics. The Kernel Panics just appear with the mavericks install

I keep you updated.
 
If you can install Lion then you should be able to install Mavericks from the USB key.

Once you have the spare disk installed with Lion, I would copy the user data off the Mavericks disk onto that.

Did you do a fresh install onto a clean disk or an upgrade from Lion to Mavericks? That may be a problem. I installed onto a clean disk and reformatted the disk.

There is no shortage of people who have made this work, so you should get yours to work as well. I used the guide from earlier in the thread rather than the original instructions. If you can install Lion, you should get this working.

Let us know how it goes.
 
rwillett said:
If you can install Lion then you should be able to install Mavericks from the USB key.

Once you have the spare disk installed with Lion, I would copy the user data off the Mavericks disk onto that.

Did you do a fresh install onto a clean disk or an upgrade from Lion to Mavericks? That may be a problem. I installed onto a clean disk and reformatted the disk.

There is no shortage of people who have made this work, so you should get yours to work as well. I used the guide from earlier in the thread rather than the original instructions. If you can install Lion, you should get this working.

Let us know how it goes.
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I could Install Lion on a new Harddisk with no problems and everything works fine, I did several reboots etc. did a hardware test and everything works fine.

I loaded Mavericks again with my MacbookPro and made a new USB Stick with "Sixty four on thirty two" on my Mac Pro under Lion. The USB Stick was made without any problems.

I inserted a formated HDD and booted from the USB Stick: KERNEL PANIC as above...

The USB Stick is 16 GB and new and I followed the ""Sixty four on thirty two" instructions step by step.

I'm running out of ideas...

Best regards,

David
 
Odd, I recall I had issues with the way I created the USB key and had a few problems and then used a slightly different guide from the Taimo guide at the beginning. It was around page 7 as I recall, I no longer have it. The guide did the same as everybody else but was a little clearer about the use of the Disk Utility and how to create the USB key. I remember that it all looked OK but I had a "Couldn't find root device problem".

I haven't used the SFOTT instructions at all so can't comment.

My thinking is that you had the same problems as I did and that the way you create the USB key isn't quite right. Which partition to drag to where is a little confusing to the initiated and I used the other written guide to get round the problem.

I would take comfort from the fact that a) you have had it working and b) the rest of us have got it working. You are probably doing something very slightly wrong and not realising it.

I was going to suggest another way to do it, but would advise you to look at the instructions in this thread. I'm walking through the door but will look tomorrow for the instructions I used to see if they would help.

Rob.
 
Hey guys,

I still do not manage to install mavericks. SFOTT's script is giving me the mentioned Kernel Panic, I tried to make a key in Lion on my Mac Pro and in mavericks on my MacBook Pro.

Then I tried the manual method described here by ROUGH EDGE:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18599135/

I tried it three times now to make a key but when I choose the key to boot from the screen goes black and after a while a text appears that says: "Still waiting for root device"

Any hint will help!

Best regards and good night!
 
Search Ebay for intel xeon slaeg x5355
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Yes, good point, I see they're substantially cheaper than the 3GHz X5365.
What do you use it for?
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All-purpose machine for domestic purposes, including photography (Canon 5DII), light financial modelling (heavy stuff at work), a bit of development, and if I ever have a moment to myself then would to get back into gaming (including X-Plane). The existing Mac Pro also doubles-up as a media server for the rest of my family. I've found even for general web-browsing and file management purposes it's become slow, though I suspect this is attributable entirely to the limited video memory on its rubbish video cards (7300GT and 8600GT).
 
crazyboblee said:
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/
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I had the same issue. Finally soved it.

1. Use Disk Utility to delete the partition on the USB thumbdive.
2. Click on the USB thumb drive device and select the partition tab.
3. Click the [Options] button at the bottom.
4. Make sure GUID is select and hit Apply.
5. Click apply again to repartition the drive.

Now set up the installer on the thumb drive.

Hope this helps!
Steven
 
The issue is not the partitioning per se, its the way you select the partitions and what goes where.

As I recall, you can create a bootable partition on a USB drive or a bootable USB drive. Disk utility will do either and NOT report an error as there is no error. Its done what you told it it to do.

However the installer gets confused about how to access the information hence the waiting for root partition as it's not where the installer thinks it is.

The guide on page 6 or 7 from a gentleman beginning with r has a slightly better way of explaining how to do the disk utility and thats what I used. Bingo the install worked.

If I get chance next weekend, I'll try and look at this further, I think deep down the issue is the disk utility writes to /dev/diskX rather than /dev/disksX.

Of course my memory and mind could be going so al of this is rubbish ;)

Rob
 
rwillett said:
I had that a couple of times in a row as well.

I *think* it is due to the way you created the USB key.

I used the guide here as it was a little more informative.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18456081/

Rob
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I found out what my problem is... after trying four other methods of creating USB sticks :) So thanks you very much again for your time and effort!!!!

It's the 4core processors!!! I built in the original Dual 2,66's and I can now install Mavericks from every USB-Drive that I made, they were all working!

To the guys with the upgraded 8core MacPro's 1,1:
Since I did not read anything about problems with the 8 cores and upgrading/installing Mavericks I just want you to ask if I buyed something wrong. I bought two Xeon X5355 and upgraded to firmware 2,1 on my MacPro 1,1. The strange thing is that I could install Lion without Problems and worked for two days in Lion with heavy FCPX and Photoshop jobs and everything worked fine and all 8 cores were used and recognized correctly.

So Lion works with them but not Mavericks (I also tried to install the two 4 cores when Mavericks was already installed) it may or not start for the first time, but then after 1-2 reboots it always ends up with the Kernel Panic posted above.

As always thanks in advance for your time and efforts!

Best regards,

David
 
mikeboss said:
if your Radeon 5770 doesn't show the bootmenu when connected via DVI it's not an Apple one. this is typical behavior of flashed PC cards (only working when connected through VGA).
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Actually, if flashed, the card shows boot screens properly, because it runs a genuine Apple EFI firmware. The symptoms you have pointed to are from a non-flashed card.
 
F.A.D. said:
I found out what my problem is... after trying four other methods of creating USB sticks :) So thanks you very much again for your time and effort!!!!

It's the 4core processors!!! I built in the original Dual 2,66's and I can now install Mavericks from every USB-Drive that I made, they were all working!

To the guys with the upgraded 8core MacPro's 1,1:
Since I did not read anything about problems with the 8 cores and upgrading/installing Mavericks I just want you to ask if I buyed something wrong. I bought two Xeon X5355 and upgraded to firmware 2,1 on my MacPro 1,1. The strange thing is that I could install Lion without Problems and worked for two days in Lion with heavy FCPX and Photoshop jobs and everything worked fine and all 8 cores were used and recognized correctly.

So Lion works with them but not Mavericks (I also tried to install the two 4 cores when Mavericks was already installed) it may or not start for the first time, but then after 1-2 reboots it always ends up with the Kernel Panic posted above.

As always thanks in advance for your time and efforts!

Best regards,

David
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Pleased you have found the problem, but I have a MacPro 1,1 which I also upgraded with the Xeon 5355's as you have done to get to eight cores. I have not flashed the firmware so its still reports MacPro 1,1.

Anyway, if it works, great.

Rob
 
F.A.D. said:
I found out what my problem is... after trying four other methods of creating USB sticks :) So thanks you very much again for your time and effort!!!!

It's the 4core processors!!! I built in the original Dual 2,66's and I can now install Mavericks from every USB-Drive that I made, they were all working!

To the guys with the upgraded 8core MacPro's 1,1:
Since I did not read anything about problems with the 8 cores and upgrading/installing Mavericks I just want you to ask if I buyed something wrong. I bought two Xeon X5355 and upgraded to firmware 2,1 on my MacPro 1,1. The strange thing is that I could install Lion without Problems and worked for two days in Lion with heavy FCPX and Photoshop jobs and everything worked fine and all 8 cores were used and recognized correctly.

So Lion works with them but not Mavericks (I also tried to install the two 4 cores when Mavericks was already installed) it may or not start for the first time, but then after 1-2 reboots it always ends up with the Kernel Panic posted above.

As always thanks in advance for your time and efforts!

Best regards,

David
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false alarm! I now get the same Kernel Panic again after rebooting (it just says "Fault CPU: 0x3" "instead of Fault CPU: 0x6"... :-(

I just wonder why Lion runs perfectly without any glitches.... :confused::confused::confused:
 
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