I don't know what I am doing wrong!!! I followed the instructions and everything but it didn't work! Can somebody please give me detailed step by step instructions on how to do this, Not using the SFOTT method. I don't need help with making the Mavericks USB I need help with the boot.efi and the osinstall.mpkg and the installablemachines.plist. Please help
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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks
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You have provided nothing to give anybody the slightest idea what the problem is, so its impossible to help. You have already admitted to being clueless:
"Hi, I am completely clueless as to how I am supposed to do the whole thing except for the mavricks usb. If possible can somebody post a reply with more clear and easier instructions for a beginner? Thanks"
"I have no clue how to use sfott, Can somebody please give me instructions what to do with sfott"
We have provided links to using sfott, the thread itself provides a number of different instructions, I personally like the instructions provided by Rastafabi here
http://www.file-upload.net/download-8362762/Mac-Pro-Xserve.7z.html
and look at guide.txt in the download.
The various instructions do work as many people have used the original instructions, Rastafabi's instructions and SFOTT. There are at least three methods that work if you follow the instructions. Most errors are caused by people not following the instructions carefully enough (though they always think they so).
If you want help, its normally useful to provide some idea of what method you are using, what hardware you have, what the problem is, what you have tried, what threads you have read, any error messages displayed.
I cannot speak for anybody else on this forum, but my powers of telepathy are really limited these days.
"Hi, I am completely clueless as to how I am supposed to do the whole thing except for the mavricks usb. If possible can somebody post a reply with more clear and easier instructions for a beginner? Thanks"
"I have no clue how to use sfott, Can somebody please give me instructions what to do with sfott"
We have provided links to using sfott, the thread itself provides a number of different instructions, I personally like the instructions provided by Rastafabi here
http://www.file-upload.net/download-8362762/Mac-Pro-Xserve.7z.html
and look at guide.txt in the download.
The various instructions do work as many people have used the original instructions, Rastafabi's instructions and SFOTT. There are at least three methods that work if you follow the instructions. Most errors are caused by people not following the instructions carefully enough (though they always think they so).
If you want help, its normally useful to provide some idea of what method you are using, what hardware you have, what the problem is, what you have tried, what threads you have read, any error messages displayed.
I cannot speak for anybody else on this forum, but my powers of telepathy are really limited these days.
I am doing it all manually the boot.efi and putting the board id into the osinstall.mpkg and the installablemachines.plist myself. I did it all and I restarted my mac and booted from the usb and it didn't work it just loaded the desktop (Lion), If it is any help I tried to boot from the usb before I did any changes to the osinstall.mpkg etc... but it just loaded my desktop it didn't even tell me that mavericks couldn't be installed on the mac, It was treating like I had heled the alt key and selected my Macintosh HD drive (My Lion drive).
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You still have provided virtually no information. Five lines of text does not constitute information.
I'm guessing that it appears that you do not have a bootable USB key, I'm guessing that as you mention something about holding down the alt key.
I would strongly suggest you download the guide I indicated earlier, print it out and as you follow the instructions, put a little tick against them. Perhaps if you then uploaded the guide to here, we can see how far you have got.
Whilst I have never tried the sequence of events you partially describe, the lack of the USB key appearing when you press the alt key (that's the middle key on a mac keyboard) would indicate that you do not have a bootable UBS drive and you have not followed the instructions correctly.
Here's the first n lines of the guide.txt that you should download and follow.
Notice the first few lines, read everything twice, think twice. Wise words, follow them. Download the software from the above URL, open the guide and read it, tick off as you do something, do not simply ignore it if you do not understand it, this guide works, I can personally vouch for this. If you cannot follow this guide, then perhaps mavericks using this method is not for you.
I'm guessing that it appears that you do not have a bootable USB key, I'm guessing that as you mention something about holding down the alt key.
I would strongly suggest you download the guide I indicated earlier, print it out and as you follow the instructions, put a little tick against them. Perhaps if you then uploaded the guide to here, we can see how far you have got.
Whilst I have never tried the sequence of events you partially describe, the lack of the USB key appearing when you press the alt key (that's the middle key on a mac keyboard) would indicate that you do not have a bootable UBS drive and you have not followed the instructions correctly.
Here's the first n lines of the guide.txt that you should download and follow.
Notice the first few lines, read everything twice, think twice. Wise words, follow them. Download the software from the above URL, open the guide and read it, tick off as you do something, do not simply ignore it if you do not understand it, this guide works, I can personally vouch for this. If you cannot follow this guide, then perhaps mavericks using this method is not for you.
Just want to confirm 10.8.5 working flawlessly on my MacPro1,1 ! I've been running 10.9 since Tiamo's first appearance, it also worked good although I was not satisfied with OS performance (it has nothing to do with the Mac Pro itself) like choppy preview.app, new spaces organization etc. It just felt to sluggish comparing to 10.8.5.
I'm extremely satisfied with 10.8 on my Mac Pro, works perfect!
Another thanks to Tiamo and author of SFOTT who made usb creation process dead simple!
I'm extremely satisfied with 10.8 on my Mac Pro, works perfect!
Another thanks to Tiamo and author of SFOTT who made usb creation process dead simple!
You are not yet ready to troubleshoot the installation with information from the verbose mode boot.efi ("the other one"), so just don't bother and use the graphic mode.
Also, I assume you know how to start your computer from an USB drive?
Remaining problems
Now Mavericks runs along just fine (sleep now works!), but I still have some problems that remain.
My system is a Mac Pro 1,1, updated to 2,1, with a flashed HD5770
1.) I tried Refind and Grub2, but I didn't get them to run Windows or initialize the HD5770, so that it works with DVI on boot. Chameleon could boot Windows and get the DVI port working. I had Grub2 installed via its EFI version.
a.) Has anyone an idea how to get Grub2 to turn the DVI port on. I couldn't find no explicit documentation how to config the graphics mode of the Grub menu itself, only config for the selected OSses. Is there someone having a similar configuration working? Any suggestions?
b.) I installed Windows the following way:
I created a copy of my installation DVD without the ";1" option. I installed Windows on my second disk (GPT). With Chameleon, I had no problems starting it. It still works if I boot it via Chameleon, so the boot configuration of Windows seems to be fine.
In the grub2 shell, I can only see my first disk, not the other ones (disk 2 and 3). So I can't test, what Grub is seeing.
Second, the menu item to boot Windows makes Grub2 say, that not EFI file is found.
Has anyone any suggestions how to configure Grub2 for this?
2.) I had this problem before, but it is a very interesting issue, so I share it anyway:
Sometimes it seems that the GUI is crashing, but not the whole system.
The symptoms are either the display turning to colored pinstripes (different colors) or the display freezing.
MacOS isn't crashing. I can still can hear audio, Time machine is still working. I even can log in via SSH and do things.
Has anyone thoughts about my problems? If I have forget some details, please ask.
Now Mavericks runs along just fine (sleep now works!), but I still have some problems that remain.
My system is a Mac Pro 1,1, updated to 2,1, with a flashed HD5770
1.) I tried Refind and Grub2, but I didn't get them to run Windows or initialize the HD5770, so that it works with DVI on boot. Chameleon could boot Windows and get the DVI port working. I had Grub2 installed via its EFI version.
a.) Has anyone an idea how to get Grub2 to turn the DVI port on. I couldn't find no explicit documentation how to config the graphics mode of the Grub menu itself, only config for the selected OSses. Is there someone having a similar configuration working? Any suggestions?
b.) I installed Windows the following way:
I created a copy of my installation DVD without the ";1" option. I installed Windows on my second disk (GPT). With Chameleon, I had no problems starting it. It still works if I boot it via Chameleon, so the boot configuration of Windows seems to be fine.
In the grub2 shell, I can only see my first disk, not the other ones (disk 2 and 3). So I can't test, what Grub is seeing.
Second, the menu item to boot Windows makes Grub2 say, that not EFI file is found.
Has anyone any suggestions how to configure Grub2 for this?
2.) I had this problem before, but it is a very interesting issue, so I share it anyway:
Sometimes it seems that the GUI is crashing, but not the whole system.
The symptoms are either the display turning to colored pinstripes (different colors) or the display freezing.
MacOS isn't crashing. I can still can hear audio, Time machine is still working. I even can log in via SSH and do things.
Has anyone thoughts about my problems? If I have forget some details, please ask.
a little confused...
Hey guys,
Is there anyone that can shed a little bit more light on these two steps:
3.insert your board-id into OSInstall.mpkg(please google it)
4.insert your board-id into InstallableMachine.plist(please google it)
Does anyone have a link to a walkthrough for these steps? I checked out some videos on youtube but they seem to be modifying very different parts of the file.
Hey guys,
Is there anyone that can shed a little bit more light on these two steps:
3.insert your board-id into OSInstall.mpkg(please google it)
4.insert your board-id into InstallableMachine.plist(please google it)
Does anyone have a link to a walkthrough for these steps? I checked out some videos on youtube but they seem to be modifying very different parts of the file.
It's the debug mode, which you also get with Command-V - verbose.
Boot appears faster without it, but might just be psychological. If you do not use it all the time, use the Graphic Mode. On mine, it had to be in both places (CoreServices and Standalone/i386) to not trigger verbose for some reason.
Certified working board ID's and Models
It would be great to collect a list of know working configurations for tiamo's file. Please respond here.
To begin with, mine is Mac Pro 1,1 hardware identified as:
<key>SupportedBoardIds</key>
<array
<string>Mac-F4208DC8</string>
</array>
With support platforms (since mine is flashed):
<key>SupportedModelProperties</key>
<array>
<string>MacPro1,1</string>
<string>MacPro2,1</string>
</array>
It would be great to collect a list of know working configurations for tiamo's file. Please respond here.
To begin with, mine is Mac Pro 1,1 hardware identified as:
<key>SupportedBoardIds</key>
<array
<string>Mac-F4208DC8</string>
</array>
With support platforms (since mine is flashed):
<key>SupportedModelProperties</key>
<array>
<string>MacPro1,1</string>
<string>MacPro2,1</string>
</array>
homebrew bootloader for OS X 10.9
Thanks to Tiamo for the great work on making the Mac Pro 1,1 part of the Mavericks world. I installed an Apple ATI Radeon HD 5770, upgraded to 10.9, and am now looking at upgrading the CPUs. Would anyone know if I installed 3 Ghz Xeon 5365s and applied the Mac Pro 2,1 firmware update, if the Tiamo mods will continue to work? In other words, would I be able to simply swap out the CPUs and continue to use the same 10.9 boot disk I'm currently using with my stock mac Pro 1,1?
Thanks to Tiamo for the great work on making the Mac Pro 1,1 part of the Mavericks world. I installed an Apple ATI Radeon HD 5770, upgraded to 10.9, and am now looking at upgrading the CPUs. Would anyone know if I installed 3 Ghz Xeon 5365s and applied the Mac Pro 2,1 firmware update, if the Tiamo mods will continue to work? In other words, would I be able to simply swap out the CPUs and continue to use the same 10.9 boot disk I'm currently using with my stock mac Pro 1,1?
A few people seem to have used it on earlier versions before 10.9 with no ill effects. I have no need to stay on 10.8.5 but if I did I'd try this method.
It would be a suck it and see method for each release, and I suspect very few people would have the skills to really understand the code and whether it would work on earlier versions. The fact that 10.9.2 appears to have changed something to stop this method working indicates that it is at least partially dynamic.
Rob.
It would be a suck it and see method for each release, and I suspect very few people would have the skills to really understand the code and whether it would work on earlier versions. The fact that 10.9.2 appears to have changed something to stop this method working indicates that it is at least partially dynamic.
Rob.
After going to tiamo's boot.efi, I needed to completely eradicate the Chameleon partition plus the Windows partitions and reinstall Windows via BootCamp. This established the hybrid MBR required for legacy boot, which was somehow changed by Chameleon. I ended up using WinClone to save the installations prior to that and was able to restore them. I have had a Windows 7-64 for a number of years that is working ok. I also migrated a Windows 8.1 using WinClone, which had been set up on a MacBook Pro Retina. It is working ok except for a problem linking BT to my Logitech keyboard. All other BT devices work.
The UI crashes sound card/driver related. I am using an Apple HD-4870 and it is working well with all systems. I am using AMD/ATI drivers on Windows 8.1, but only Apple on the others (OS X and BootCamp). The nice part of the HD-4870 is that it is not too far different in performance to the HD-5770, but is able to boot all the way back to Tiger.
While there is actually no difference where in the board-id-list part of file you put the board-id, the instructions earlier in the thread, in the downloads etc state clearly: insert into the last line before closing statements of the XML (i.e.: copy the last line contain gin a board-id to a new line and then replace the copied ID with your one).
And don't forget about the SMC update as well, if you really want to go "genuine 2,1".
Yep. You need to have another bootable OS in this case or another 10.9 capable Mac.
I didn't even know someone had worked out how to update the ssmc!
Thanks for the pointer hwojtek!
Credits to pipomolo42 over at forum.netkas.org for working it out.
That said, it is more of a vanity project than a necessity, I've got to admit that it is nice to know it is done
-Rob
Desi123, I had a similar problem. It did seem to be related to my USB drive. I was using a Western Digital 500GB "my passport" drive. When I attempted to boot with that drive, there would be a pause at the boot screen, then it would boot into the hard drive.
I found that if I booted into the recovery partition and selected the USB as the startup disk, the USB drive would boot.
I then received an error that my USB drive was not "clean" and to try again. I did and failed again.
I'm going to try with a new USB drive.
You are welcomeThat said, it is more of a vanity project than a necessity, I've got to admit that it is nice to know it is done
It may be a placebo effect, but I somehow believe my MP got a bit louder after the SMC update. iStat Pro shows exactly the same fan speeds as before, though.