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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

Now all work great on 10.9.2 ! , Thanks
But my geForce 8800GT are no more detected by the Mac Pro.
Is it normal?
 
tiamo: I have been using your modified boot.efi since the day you posted it! It works fantastic! Thanks so much!!

tobyg: Any tips on how we might modify your script to work with a fusion drive? Thanks!
 
Sleep issues

I'm thrilled that my MP1,1 (Updated to 2,1) now has some new life left in it. But I can't seem to get around the loss of the sleep function I seem to have suffered. Reading all the posts, I didn't seem to notice any resolutions that might apply.

Using SFOTT 1.4.3 (Tiamo's boot.efi) and OSX10.9.2 with the following video card:

ATI Radeon HD 5770:

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5770
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x68b8
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0160C-180
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.436
Displays:
Cinema HD:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: xxxxxxxxx
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported

A stock MP1,1 otherwise with 2,1 firmware:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Processor): 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B06
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): xxxxxxx

Has anyone else seen sleep issues with this combination of hardware?

Thanks! And Thanks to Tiamo for saving me from having to replace a perfectly good Mac Pro! Yeah!
 
xl600 said:
Has anyone else seen sleep issues with this combination of hardware?
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I have almost the same configuration (differs only in the core count) and sleep is fine. A problem seems to be, that activated wake-on-lan crashes the machine. You should deactivate that.
Perhaps you need to clear your PRAM settings.
 
JoSch said:
A problem seems to be, that activated wake-on-lan crashes the machine. You should deactivate that.
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I haven't experienced any crashes (yet), but it's only been a day so who knows. I'll deactivate it just in case.

JoSch said:
Perhaps you need to clear your PRAM settings.
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These were cleared just after installing Mavericks 10.9.1 but before 10.9.2 so yes, it's probably a good time to clear them out again. I'll do an SMC reset as well just to be sure (Power plug out for 15 seconds) then reply back with the results.

Thanks
 
Robert Davies said:
@ XL600, apart from the graphics card, what peripherals/pci-ie cards have you got plugged into the machine?
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  • A 4 port USB2.0 adapter plugged into a PCIe slot. Connected to that is an APC UPS and a memory card reader
  • A standard Apple HD 24" monitor
  • Bluetooth Apple mouse
  • Apple keyboard

That's the extent of it. Internally, there's 4 hard drives (An Intel 520 SSD as the Maverics disk and three SATA disks).

Under Snow Leopard, the SSD (In all slots other than bay 1) seemed to give OsX fits when trying to wake from sleep (Would hang or go extremely slow). After I moved the SSD to bay 1, that all went away.
 
It may be worth temporarily removing the USB card and trying again.


xl600 said:
  • A 4 port USB2.0 adapter plugged into a PCIe slot. Connected to that is an APC UPS and a memory card reader
  • A standard Apple HD 24" monitor
  • Bluetooth Apple mouse
  • Apple keyboard

That's the extent of it. Internally, there's 4 hard drives (An Intel 520 SSD as the Maverics disk and three SATA disks).

Under Snow Leopard, the SSD (In all slots other than bay 1) seemed to give OsX fits when trying to wake from sleep (Would hang or go extremely slow). After I moved the SSD to bay 1, that all went away.
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idealtracks said:
tiamo: I have been using your modified boot.efi since the day you posted it! It works fantastic! Thanks so much!!

tobyg: Any tips on how we might modify your script to work with a fusion drive? Thanks!
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You can use this to update Fusion drive (it can be added to tobyg script; run as root):
Code: 
for part in $(diskutil list | grep "Apple_Boot Boot OS X" | awk '{print $8}') ; do [ ! -d /tmp/$part  ] && mkdir /tmp/$part ; diskutil mount -mountPoint /tmp/$part /dev/$part &>/dev/null || continue ; find /tmp/$part/ -type f -name boot.efi -exec cp /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi.tiamo {} \; 2>/dev/null; diskutil umount /tmp/$part &>/dev/null; done

To check Fusion boot partitions status :
Code: 
for part in $(diskutil list | grep "Apple_Boot Boot OS X" | awk '{print $8}') ; do printf "$part is Apple_Boot Boot OS X : " ; [ ! -d /tmp/$part  ] && mkdir /tmp/$part &>/dev/null ; diskutil mount -mountPoint /tmp/$part /dev/$part &>/dev/null && echo " mounted, checking boot.efi files:" || continue ; find /tmp/$part/ -type f -name boot.efi -exec ls -l {} /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi.tiamo \; 2>/dev/null ; diskutil umount /tmp/$part &>/dev/null ; done


If files are identical, it's OK. :D
 
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JoSch said:
I have almost the same configuration (differs only in the core count) and sleep is fine. A problem seems to be, that activated wake-on-lan crashes the machine. You should deactivate that.
Perhaps you need to clear your PRAM settings.
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Well, that worked like a charm. Resetting both SMC and PRAM (At the same time). Weird thing is, the descriptions of PRAM and SMC functionality wouldn't seem to suggest any involvement in the ability to sleep the system. Whatever it was though, seems to have cleared up.

Thanks! I'm cooking with gas now!
 
LoLL31 said:
You can use this to update Fusion drive (it can be added to tobyg script; run as root):
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Thank you so much! I will do some reading up on it so I understand it a bit more before trying it, and will report back results.

Did you set yours up in this way?
 
xl600 said:
Well, that worked like a charm. Resetting both SMC and PRAM (At the same time). Weird thing is, the descriptions of PRAM and SMC functionality wouldn't seem to suggest any involvement in the ability to sleep the system. Whatever it was though, seems to have cleared up.

Thanks! I'm cooking with gas now!
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Happy to have helped you :)
 
Success! But system only reports 8GB installed

Got my MacPro1,1 back up on Mavericks 10.9.2 using the Tiamo method via oemden's SFOTT scripted installation.

One thing though -- I have 16GB installed and it's only reporting 8GB. The RAM is quality, Apple-compliant DIMMs, and I didn't have a problem with them under 10.9.1 (via Chameleon).

Any ideas as to a) why it's showing this, b) if it's an actual problem or if I can ignore it, and c) how to fix it? :confused:
 
iLevac said:
Now all work great on 10.9.2 ! , Thanks
But my geForce 8800GT are no more detected by the Mac Pro.
Is it normal?
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Have you tried to install the NVIDIA drivers? Last time I looked, the 8800GT was supported.
 
Total Ram not showing correctly

JayKay514 said:
Got my MacPro1,1 back up on Mavericks 10.9.2 using the Tiamo method via oemden's SFOTT scripted installation.

One thing though -- I have 16GB installed and it's only reporting 8GB. The RAM is quality, Apple-compliant DIMMs, and I didn't have a problem with them under 10.9.1 (via Chameleon).

Any ideas as to a) why it's showing this, b) if it's an actual problem or if I can ignore it, and c) how to fix it? :confused:
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I had a similar issue. I checked my system info Apple>About This Mac>More Info>System Report>Memory and saw that two 4gig sticks were only showing as 1 gig each. I pulled this sticks and replaced them with a couple of older smaller sticks and the total RAM then showed correctly.

I returned the bad sticks (Transintl has great customer service) and am waiting for replacements.
 
tobyg said:
I've made it easier to update 10.9.2.

Instead of following the instructions above, just install the attached package. It will put the LaunchDaemon out there.

So here are the new steps.

1. Install TiamoMacProFix.pkg (attached to this thread)
2. Reboot (yes this is necessary)
2a. Reboot again if you want to then verify the date/time stamp on the two boot.efi files (/usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi and /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi) are updated properly. They won't be updated until the second shutdown/reboot. (optional step but a good one if you want to verify the files are updating properly)
3. Install 10.9.2 update.
4. ...
5. Profit.

Consider this a version .1 beta package. I'll work on building a new package file that won't require a reboot and will do additional checks (to make sure you're not installing this on something like a MacPro3,1+ and that you're definitely using 10.9.0 or greater, etc).

Again, after you install this package you can freely update to 10.9.2 and not worry about having to manually replace boot.efi files.

This was tested on a MacPro1,1 with a fresh install of 10.9.2 and updated using the AppStore on a single drive.
This was NOT tested on a fusion drive.
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Hi tobyg,

Thanks for your package, tested with update 10.9.3 - 13D12 and it works well, congrats :)
 
iLevac said:
Now all work great on 10.9.2 ! , Thanks
But my geForce 8800GT are no more detected by the Mac Pro.
Is it normal?
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No. My Mac Pro 1,1 is equipped with a flashed GeForce 8800GT and is running 10.9.2 without problems. I'm planning to replace the graphic board sooner or later, but I didn't experienced any issue so far.
 
Peloche said:
I do not have the installer package, but i can confirm that boot.efi are not replaced with 10.9.3 - 13D12.
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I just assumed that because the MP came straight back up after the update, that tobyg's app had done it's thing.

Anywho, thanks Peloche for checking out the internals of the update.

We will see what happens with the next beta! :eek:

-Rob
 
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