Hi tiamo, I am so excited to find you post here. Just wonder if your instructions can be used to install mavericks on my macbook (white, early 2008, 403)? many thanks and look forward to your reply.
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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks
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Your MacBook is already 64 bit capable, so does not need this boot loader.
The reason your MacBook cannot run Mavericks is more to do with there being no 64 bit graphics drivers for the Intel x1300 in your MacBook.
Nice thread hijack btw!
Hi all - my first post
I am working on the following and have tried to email oemden through oemden.com but my email stalls. Anyhow can anyone here help?
Here is my Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Xserve
Model Identifier: Xserve1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 5 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: XS11.0080.B01
SMC Version (system): 1.11f5
LOM Revision: 1.2.1
Serial Number (system): Not Available
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0019E3E7336E
I used SFOTT to install tiamo's patch (thanks tiamo) to a Mavericks Installer on a Firewire volume. All went as designed (thanks oemdesign). My installer volume name was changed to OS X Base System which contained the Mavericks Installer.
Instead of a long dialog I will attach three screen shots which explain the rest of the story.
Any help appreciated. Any questions gladly answered.
Howard
I am working on the following and have tried to email oemden through oemden.com but my email stalls. Anyhow can anyone here help?
Here is my Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Xserve
Model Identifier: Xserve1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 5 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: XS11.0080.B01
SMC Version (system): 1.11f5
LOM Revision: 1.2.1
Serial Number (system): Not Available
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0019E3E7336E
I used SFOTT to install tiamo's patch (thanks tiamo) to a Mavericks Installer on a Firewire volume. All went as designed (thanks oemdesign). My installer volume name was changed to OS X Base System which contained the Mavericks Installer.
Instead of a long dialog I will attach three screen shots which explain the rest of the story.
Any help appreciated. Any questions gladly answered.
Howard
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Hi,
So my startup disk screwed up today, so reinstalling on a new disk i have the ATI X1900XT in my MP at the moment shall I just give Mavericks a go or reinstall ML until i get a new card?
So my startup disk screwed up today, so reinstalling on a new disk i have the ATI X1900XT in my MP at the moment shall I just give Mavericks a go or reinstall ML until i get a new card?
It does look like you have not got your board ID correctly into SFOTT before creating your install drive.
Curiously, when I created my install drive onto a USB key, SFOTT renamed the key err… 'SFOTT'.
-Rob
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I do recall that it says somewhere in the instructions for SFOTT that it is only qualified for certain machines - is the xserve one of them?
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To my mind, Mavericks is what Mountain Lion should have been, whether or not your x1900xt is up to the job of running Mavericks day-to-day is something sadly, I cannot comment on from personal experience.
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Okay I might give it a go and see how we do! I'm finding the instructions very confusing though...
I will admit that SFOTT can appear to be somewhat counter-intuitive to some people - me included! - whereas other have no issues at all.
Yeah I'm just formatting a memory stick now, following the guide on his site
thank you
MacPro 2.1 brought for a snip as "too outdated, cannot update"
SSD boot drive, new 2Gb graphics card from PCWorld for £25 and Mavericks installed thanks to tiamo
So now I have a machine that gives Geekbench figures around the same as a new iMac for about 20% of the price thanks to various posts on here about what can and can't be done with these old machines..
MacPro 2.1, dual 2.66 Quad, 12Gb RAM, 2Gb ATI Radeon HD6450, 128GB SSD, 1TB HD, Mavericks...
MacPro 2.1 brought for a snip as "too outdated, cannot update"
SSD boot drive, new 2Gb graphics card from PCWorld for £25 and Mavericks installed thanks to tiamo
So now I have a machine that gives Geekbench figures around the same as a new iMac for about 20% of the price thanks to various posts on here about what can and can't be done with these old machines..
MacPro 2.1, dual 2.66 Quad, 12Gb RAM, 2Gb ATI Radeon HD6450, 128GB SSD, 1TB HD, Mavericks...
All done, Mavericks DOES work with the X1900 XT, and is usable, however stuff like launchpad and sometimes the apps folder lag a bit but it is usable. However I don't know whether its down to my graphics card but I only have 1 monitor now? dual display isn't working, anyone know why?
What does Apple Menu > About This Mac > More info > System Report > Graphics/Displays say about what's attached/installed on your system?
Hmm
Not even detected another display.
I'm not familiar with the specifics of the x1900xt, are there other ports that you can try?
I'm not familiar with the specifics of the x1900xt, are there other ports that you can try?
it only has 2 dvi il swap them around see if it works then
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nope nothing?
The subset of MP 1,1 owners running Mavericks is small, the subset of them having an x1900xt is smaller still, the subset of any of them attempting to run two displays might just be you.
You/we may just be finding out another reason why Mavericks does not support the x1900xt.
i think its because osx is seeing it has 6mb ram instead of 256/512 or whatever it is, if it saw all the ram i don't think it would be laggy
Is there any way to up the RAM or trick mavericks to thinking it has more ram? (Well it does!)
Cheers
Cheers
Installed mavericks onto a new drive, replaced boot.efi in /usr and /system/coreservices...etc and the boot completely fails in my 1,1. The computer literally shuts off before anything pops up on a screen.
It might be important to note that the maverics install, even with replaced boot.efi, boots perfectly fine on my 2009 macbook pro.
It seems as though my 1,1 is HIGHLY resistant to mavericks... what the hell could be the problem now?
It might be important to note that the maverics install, even with replaced boot.efi, boots perfectly fine on my 2009 macbook pro.
It seems as though my 1,1 is HIGHLY resistant to mavericks... what the hell could be the problem now?
Just confirm your put the boot.efi into /System/Library/CoreServices and /usr/standalone/i386.
Another thing that you can check is Tiamo's boot.efi is 461kb or thereabouts whereas Apple's is 505kb.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used the wrong boot.efi file!!! How the hell I got that, I have no idea!
Robert, a very special thanks to you sir. Thanks to everyone else who helped in this project... you have no idea how much easier you have made my life/job.
FRIGGIN' SWEEEET!
Now out of curiosity, what happens if I keep my x1900 connected, just for the use of my third monitor?
--Trav
I used the wrong boot.efi file!!! How the hell I got that, I have no idea!
Robert, a very special thanks to you sir. Thanks to everyone else who helped in this project... you have no idea how much easier you have made my life/job.
FRIGGIN' SWEEEET!
Now out of curiosity, what happens if I keep my x1900 connected, just for the use of my third monitor?
--Trav
Most excellent!!
Really glad you got it sorted Re: your gpu.
If your other card is ATi/AMD it will work, but put the faster card in slot 1 - I have noticed graphics performance issues personally, from using two cards in this way on the 1,1 - My experience, purely subjective.
Note, when you reboot, the PCI slot utility will start up nagging you about having a graphics card in a non 16x slot - there's nothing you can really do about that because the 1,1 only has one 16x slot - slot 1 where I told you to put your faster card. Though if it does indicate that you have an 8x slot available you may as well move the x1900xt to that one. Though must reiterate that I've not had great success with two graphics cards in an MP 1,1 - see how it works for YOU though - the performance available may be perfectly acceptable.
Also NOTE BIG TIME if you use the PCI slot utility to reconfigure your PCI slots ie make a 4x into an 8x, it WILL overwrite the boot.efi in /usr/standalone/i386.
That's all for tonight I think Travis, just saying again, I'm pleased you got there, it's taken awhile
I can't use iMessage and FaceTime on my macpro1,1
What should I do to correct them?
iMessage tells me to contact applecare to validate it with a code
Just to clarify, what OS X are you running?
Hey guys I have my own question if I clone my MacBook Pro harddrive with Mavericks can I use the patch to patch it up so my Mac Pro 2.1 could put the cloned harddrive?