Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

[F.A.D.]

Is there a way to deinstall the TiamoMacPro Fix?

Is there a way to deinstall the TiamoMacPro Fix?

I managed to update the files manually (attached an old SATA HDD to one of the Blu-Ray Player Ports, installed mavericks there and changed the boot.efi's on my main boot drive manually)

The problem is it now needs two boot ups till it is booting and it takes a very long time. When I start my mac pro I see a gray screen for a long time and then it restarts by itself into mavericks 10.9.2 but even that takes way more time than before.

Since I now have a drive I can boot from to change the boot.efi's manually I would try to deinstall the TiamoMacProFix to see if I then can boot in just one pass. But how do I do that?

Thanks!

Best regards,

David

 

[tobyg]

This was not tested on raids or fusion drives. I thought I mentioned this. It was only tested on a single drive. The way to remove it is to delete the two files it copies. /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi.tiamo and /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.tiamo.macprofix.plist

This program didn't break your raid. 10.9.2 probably broke your boot.efi. The pkg I made just doesn't fix the boot.efi on raids that the 10.9.2 update probably broke. Sorry I can't be of more help but I'm away from my mac this weekend and I don't have a raid to test with.

You probably need to replace the boot.efi on each copy of the boot partition that is probably on each drive.

 

[lbealsjr]

Still Waiting for root device

I followed the directions (twice) and when I try to boot from the usb drive I get to the USBMSC identifier.....
then
Still waiting for root device

so obviously I am doing something wrong...
any idea on what?

thanks

1. following those steps to make an install drive
http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

2. replace boot.efi
boot.efi can be found at System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi and usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi

3.insert your board-id into OSInstall.mpkg(please google it)

4.insert your board-id into InstallableMachine.plist(please google it)

5.reboot from the usb drive.

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[dodino]

Macbook 4,1 (Early 2008)

Hi, thanks for your great work!
I have an early 2008 MacBook 4,1 (the black one).
I tried many ways to install Mavericks without any success.

Problem is that the installer won't boot.
I tried with tiamo's boot.efi, i tried SFOTT, i tried also a hackintosh installation with Unibeast.
I tried to boot the installer with Clover, i tried Chimera.
I tried with different USB drives and finally tried to copy the installer directly in a partition of a secondary SATA SSD.
There was simply no way to get the Mavericks installer to boot.

All the devices regularly booted in a Macbook 5,5 unibody (early 2009) that natively supports Mavericks.

I'm starting to think i'm missing some kernel flag. Have you any idea that could help me?

Thank you!

 

[F.A.D.]

This was not tested on raids or fusion drives. I thought I mentioned this. It was only tested on a single drive. The way to remove it is to delete the two files it copies. /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi.tiamo and /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.tiamo.macprofix.plist

This program didn't break your raid. 10.9.2 probably broke your boot.efi. The pkg I made just doesn't fix the boot.efi on raids that the 10.9.2 update probably broke. Sorry I can't be of more help but I'm away from my mac this weekend and I don't have a raid to test with.

You probably need to replace the boot.efi on each copy of the boot partition that is probably on each drive.

Sorry, I just read that fusion drives were not supported.

Strangely, the boot behavior is still the same after deleting the files you mentioned, so it still shows the grey screen for a long time and reboots by itself but also way longer.

I think I'll do a fresh install in the future.

Best regards,

David

 

[tobyg]

Sorry, I just read that fusion drives were not supported.

Strangely, the boot behavior is still the same after deleting the files you mentioned, so it still shows the grey screen for a long time and reboots by itself but also way longer.

I think I'll do a fresh install in the future.

Best regards,

David

Have you tried just going into the Startup disk and making sure the right disk is selected? Sometimes when it's a slow boot is because you have no startup disk really selected, and it finally boots from whatever it can find.

 

[idealtracks]

Nope, did it manually.
But i launched scripts on my mac and they ran fine.
Of course you must have the modded boot.efi installed as /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi.tiamo to run ,-) (or change path to $(dirname $0) if file is copied in same folder as the script)

Just looking at this again. Would tobyg's script, edited to work on a Fusion Drive, look like this? And I would substitute 'Apple_Boot Boot OS X' with the name of my Fusion Drive? Thanks for your help.

<string>trap "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" SIGINT SIGTERM SIGHUP; sleep 999999 & wait $!</string>

 

[F.A.D.]

Have you tried just going into the Startup disk and making sure the right disk is selected? Sometimes when it's a slow boot is because you have no startup disk really selected, and it finally boots from whatever it can find.

Hi,

I checked that, the problem seems to be that since the TiamoMacProFix my Raid-0 does show up as individual drives, at least in the boot menu when pressing the OPTION key that seems to confuse the MacPro ;-)

Best regards,

David

 

[tobyg]

Hi,

I checked that, the problem seems to be that since the TiamoMacProFix my Raid-0 does show up as individual drives, at least in the boot menu when pressing the OPTION key that seems to confuse the MacPro ;-)

Best regards,

David

Did you check the Startup disk though? Does it show all 4 or just the 1?

I don't know anything about RAID in a Mac Pro. I doubt the fix I made would change anything, essentially all it does is copy the tiamo boot.efi along with setting up essentially a script that copies the file to the two locations (on a normal single drive installation) every time the system reboots. It doesn't 'install' anything else.

Good luck to ya.

 

[gpatpandp]

Hi, thanks for your great work!
I have an early 2008 MacBook 4,1 (the black one).
I tried many ways to install Mavericks without any success.

Problem is that the installer won't boot.
I tried with tiamo's boot.efi, i tried SFOTT, i tried also a hackintosh installation with Unibeast.
I tried to boot the installer with Clover, i tried Chimera.
I tried with different USB drives and finally tried to copy the installer directly in a partition of a secondary SATA SSD.
There was simply no way to get the Mavericks installer to boot.

All the devices regularly booted in a Macbook 5,5 unibody (early 2009) that natively supports Mavericks.

I'm starting to think i'm missing some kernel flag. Have you any idea that could help me?

Thank you!

Unfortunately you are spinning your wheels in that your 2008 MacBook with Intel GMA X3100 inboard graphics is not OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatible and further to that presently, a hack does not exist in which to get it to work either...aorry.

 

[BOUNCEBOYUK]

Installing Mavericks on Mac Pro 2.1

Dear all,

Following three weeks of reading posts, downloading tools and software I have lost the will to live in my goal to install Mavericks on my MP2.1 board ID F4208DA9.

It appears many have succeeded however it also appears there is many an opinion or variations on how to successfully achieve an install, I wish someone would stick to one tried proven method and post that procedure. PLEASE.

I have followed TIAMO route, though I will say some of the information provided in third party links is confusing, for example TIAMO requests we insert board id into OSinstall.mpkg, however Zack Whitefield YouTube tutorial using the Flat Package Editor tool goes into changing minimum ram values and virtual machine true / false arguments, nothing about board id.

Are we to implement these changes in addition to inserting our board id…?

Another post from RASTAFABI suggested deleting the "/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache"…?

I have also tried creating a install flash boot dive using the SOFTT 64x32 method, however that failed to create a drive, though I will persevere to see if can get it to wok for me.

I have also tried installing both variants of TIAMO boot.efi, the second boot.efi edit date 25 November 2013 time 08:25 does not move past the options screen, when I choose the flash drive install option the screen just hangs.

The first original release edit date 23 November 2013 time 01:14 appears to get me the furthest before the process locks up, the following dialog is displayed:

efiboot loaded from device: Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1F|2)/SATA(0,0)HD(Part2,SigD81F3FFD-88A3-4B42-835E-6D136ADBBC21)
boot file path: \System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi
.._


So to summarise my aim:
1] I need to install 10.8 or 10.9 to run Logic X and Universal Audio Apollo UAD-7.5
2] My hardware is: MP2.1, 3.0MHz 8-core, 16-Gig Mem, 2x 7300GT cards driving three displays
3] I have created an install boot flash drive as guided by tips-and-tricks from the InstallESD.dmg and copying the Packages folder to flash drive
3] I have downloaded and tried both variants of Tiamo boot.efi and replaced those in CoreServices and i386
4] I have inserted board id to OSinstall.mpkg both ways, one with Zack edits and one without
5] I have inserted board id into Installable Machine Property List
6] I have also tried both ways, one deleting kernelcache and one leaving it as is

Any further guidance would be very much appreciated

Thanks in advance
Regards
Paul

 

[Draeconis]

I don't think you'll get far with those 7300GTs, you'll need a graphics card that's supported under Mavericks.

 

[BOUNCEBOYUK]

Installing Mavericks on Mac Pro 2.1

I don't think you'll get far with those 7300GTs, you'll need a graphics card that's supported under Mavericks.

Thanks for responding Draeconis, somewhere amongst this forty page thread I read that an instance was achieved with 7300GT's installed, however I would not be able to use FaceTime etcetera.

I have read that many users have upgraded their cards and I am happy to do the same however I'm not going to be happy if I do shell out on new cards and then hit the same issue as described in my previous post.

Its on the goods advice list, thanks again
Regards
Paul

 

[Robert Davies]

Thanks for responding Draeconis, somewhere amongst this forty page thread I read that an instance was achieved with 7300GT's installed, however I would not be able to use FaceTime etcetera.

I have read that many users have upgraded their cards and I am happy to do the same however I'm not going to be happy if I do shell out on new cards and then hit the same issue as described in my previous post.

Its on the goods advice list, thanks again
Regards
Paul

Simple stuff:

Check that the boot.efi at /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi is 461kb
ditto that at /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi - if either are 505kb, they're the wrong ones.

A box stock install of Mavericks on any supported mac with those two files exchanged properly for Tiamo's, and transplanted into an MP 1,1 or 2,1 will work.

 

[levilippincott]

Same Problem

I followed the directions (twice) and when I try to boot from the usb drive I get to the USBMSC identifier.....
then
Still waiting for root device

so obviously I am doing something wrong...
any idea on what?

thanks

I am getting this exact same problem.

 

[Robert Davies]

I am getting this exact same problem.

I am curious why neither of you are using SFoTT…

http://oemden.com/?page_id=585

It does not get any easier than that.

If my install had failed after identifying the USB drive, I'd want to know what it was looking for, and why it wasn't finding it.

 

[Earl Urly]

That's how I flipped two Mac Pro 1,1's to Mavericks.. I just made sure they had Lion installed and had the Mavericks installer in the default location, ran the SFOTT scripts (make sure to get v.1.4.3 of SFOTT) and it automagically built a Mavericks install flash key. Since I had the latest 10.9.2 Mavericks app, it made a 10.9.2 installer, couldn't be easier, just followed a bunch of text prompts and was patient.

Haven't tried to boot to the recovery partition though, don't know if that image was patched as well but it's a simple matter to copy over the boot.efi from the main partition..

 

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

Following three weeks of reading posts, downloading tools and software I have lost the will to live in my goal to install Mavericks on my MP2.1 board ID F4208DA9.

I spent less than an hour building an installation USB drive with SFOTT and then installing Mavericks from that. Why not try that route?

 

[Draeconis]

Thanks for responding Draeconis, somewhere amongst this forty page thread I read that an instance was achieved with 7300GT's installed, however I would not be able to use FaceTime etcetera.

I have read that many users have upgraded their cards and I am happy to do the same however I'm not going to be happy if I do shell out on new cards and then hit the same issue as described in my previous post.

Its on the goods advice list, thanks again
Regards
Paul

Whilst you can run Mavericks with the 7300s, since they're unsupported they're not hardware accelerated. It might not prevent you from using Mavericks, but it won't exactly be a smooth experience either. Unsupported display adapters perform very poorly.

 

[Earl Urly]

Whilst you can run Mavericks with the 7300s, since they're unsupported they're not hardware accelerated. It might not prevent you from using Mavericks, but it won't exactly be a smooth experience either. Unsupported display adapters perform very poorly.

You can't use any apps that use any special 3D, Maps crashes like a mofo. iTunes will crash, lots of pages in Safari will crash, even calling up System Information and clicking on the Memory tab will log you out. You should only keep a 7300GT in the machine for EFI boot selection screens if you absolutely need them.

 

[BOUNCEBOYUK]

Simple stuff:

Check that the boot.efi at /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi is 461kb
ditto that at /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi - if either are 505kb, they're the wrong ones.

A box stock install of Mavericks on any supported mac with those two files exchanged properly for Tiamo's, and transplanted into an MP 1,1 or 2,1 will work.

Thanks for responding Robert - Stuff not always so simple, I have gone to great effort to ensure Tiamo's EFi and not the original Apple files are in place, I also checked to ensure board id's are where they should be, however despite all the checks I experience the boot stall text as described in my first post.

Just so I understand you correctly can you define "box stock install", do you mean an up and running system installed on a qualifying model and then just replace both EFi or are you referring to a fresh install from a flash drive...?

Thanks
Regards
Paul

 

[BOUNCEBOYUK]

I spent less than an hour building an installation USB drive with SFOTT and then installing Mavericks from that. Why not try that route?

Thanks for your reply Zarniwoop - As per my first post I said I would have another stab at the SOFFT procedure, the procedure appeared to go more smoothly this time however when try to boot the screen hangs [see attached image] I have also uploaded the SOFFT configuration text, can anyone see if I have misunderstood any of the instructions specifically the target questions, have I chosen the correct target...?

Thanks
Regards
Paul

 

[BOUNCEBOYUK]

Whilst you can run Mavericks with the 7300s, since they're unsupported they're not hardware accelerated. It might not prevent you from using Mavericks, but it won't exactly be a smooth experience either. Unsupported display adapters perform very poorly.

You can't use any apps that use any special 3D, Maps crashes like a mofo. iTunes will crash, lots of pages in Safari will crash, even calling up System Information and clicking on the Memory tab will log you out. You should only keep a 7300GT in the machine for EFI boot selection screens if you absolutely need them.

To begin with I'm just concerned with achieving an installed system, once that is confirmed then I'll replace the cards.

Any comments regarding nVidia GeForce GT 430 1GB, will this work...?
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product-geforce-gt-430-uk.html

Thanks
Regards
Paul

 

[Robert Davies]

Just so I understand you correctly can you define "box stock install", do you mean an up and running system installed on a qualifying model and then just replace both EFi

Hi Paul, This ^^^.

I note on your profile there is an MBP if you installed Mavericks on a 3.5" disk in an external enclosure attached to this, and swapped in the Tiamo boot.efi, and whence done, stuck the drive into your MP, it should work fine - it's one of the many methods that I've tested and found to work.

That aside for a moment…

In your attached image of the boatloader with the three disks shown - select the extreme righthand one with the custom 64on32 icon.

-Rob

 

[MrWizard64]

Yo Rob... what's crackin man?

Hey, what happens if I install the update that Mavericks is constantly asking me to install on my 1,1?