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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

MrWizard64 said:
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?
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Hey!

Get yourself a copy of the installer attached to this post:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18829695/

Install it. Reboot. Install whatever updates you need. That installer installs an app that checks to see if Tiamo's bootloader has been compromised since the last reboot - if it has, it reinstalls it! Letting you/us install OS updates which may overwrite the bootloader.

Take care Travis,

-Rob
 
Probably because I never ran across that method in my search. Thanks for the pointer. D/L'd it and ran it and now running Mavericks on my MacPro 1,1.

Robert Davies said:
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.
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Hanging

Robert Davies said:
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.
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Thanks for the pointer. I downloaded this and set it up. Now I am getting to the point where I am trying to install off my USB key, it lets me choose the drive, and then it just sits at an apple window with a spinning loading symbol.

I am going to try to rebuild the key again and see if that resolves it.
 
levilippincott said:
I am going to try to rebuild the key again and see if that resolves it.
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So an update, rebuilding the key did not help.

I am still able to get to the screen that BOUNCEBOYUK is able to get to in their screenshot in this post.

Mine does not lock up when selecting the SFOTT installer though mine hangs on the Apple loading window, I attached that image.

So to assist I also captured the SFOTT Settings, the log of when the USB key is being built, the USB key contents after the build is complete.

I was curious if there was something that was wrong with the build so I went ahead and opened up a side-by-side comparison of the stock Apple Install OS X Maverick contents & the SFOTT Install OS X Mavericks Contents. There were 2 folders missing, not sure if that matters. I attached that screenshot as well.

Thanks in advance for any help someone can provide.
 

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Levi, as an aside, you could install Mavericks on your MP in Target Disk Mode from your iMac with a Firewire cable. Just make sure that the disk you want to install Mavericks on is the ONLY writeable disk in the MP, and immediately after installation has completed, but before leaving Target Disk Mode, copy across the Tiamo boot.efi. (Probably best to delete the MP's original Mavericks boot.efis in the terminal first to get around the 'locked file' problem - THEN copy over the Tiamo version).


-Rob

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levilippincott said:
Mine does not lock up when selecting the SFOTT installer though mine hangs on the Apple loading window, I attached that image.

So to assist I also captured the SFOTT Settings, the log of when the USB key is being built, the USB key contents after the build is complete.

I was curious if there was something that was wrong with the build so I went ahead and opened up a side-by-side comparison of the stock Apple Install OS X Maverick contents & the SFOTT Install OS X Mavericks Contents. There were 2 folders missing, not sure if that matters. I attached that screenshot as well.

Thanks in advance for any help someone can provide.
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I cannot see any obvious errors with your prep and install of SFoTT.

How long have you left the Apple screen spinning?

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As I recall I've only made an SFoTT key from my MP whilst running Lion, never from a third party Mac.
 
Robert Davies said:
Levi, as an aside, you could install Mavericks on your MP in Target Disk Mode from your iMac with a Firewire cable. Just make sure that the disk you want to install Mavericks on is the ONLY writeable disk in the MP, and immediately after installation has completed, but before leaving Target Disk Mode, copy across the Tiamo boot.efi. (Probably best to delete the MP's original Mavericks boot.efis in the terminal first to get around the 'locked file' problem - THEN copy over the Tiamo version).
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I don't want to be irritating but is there some guide on how to do the copying and the terminal stuff? That is not my strongest area.

Do you mean setup MP in target disk mode (TDM) and then run the Apple Mavericks installer and then copy the Tiamo boot.efi across? Or do I run the modified Apple Mavericks installer off the key from the iMac with the MP being in TDM?


Robert Davies said:
How long have you left the Apple screen spinning?
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I think about 10 minutes, I can give it longer if you think I should.


Robert Davies said:
As I recall I've only made an SFoTT key from my MP whilst running Lion, never from a third party Mac.
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My problem with doing he build from the MP is that the original video card in the MP is going out and after running for like 30-40 seconds in IOS it craps out and hangs up. So I have a newer video card (GeForce GT120) that Lion cannot even recognize without drivers installed, however, the computer crashes before I can install the drivers. My Boot Camp Windows 7 recognizes it just fine.
 
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Faakkk help meh!

I've been working on this for several hours now following the directions in Tiamo's post to a T. I'll boot into TDM and my USB comes up. When I attempt to boot into it, my MacPro1,1 thinks about it, then stops and brings all my bootable drives up after that. So something is obviously wrong with how I'm going about creating my USB.

I believe it's the initial way I'm creating the USB. I'm following the directions in this guide: http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

I tried using the:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction <-- this gives me way less interaction than the first method

So the first method, am I missing something? Do I need to somehow compile it back to an installer or should it be booting straight from that regardless if I change the boot.efi's, product list and OSInstall.mpkg

I'm getting my boardID from this:
"ioreg -p IODeviceTree -r -n / -d 1"

Any help would be greatly appreciated as EOL sucks ass; this machine is far too great to be sold/tossed.
 
Or instead of reading through forty pages, you could cut out the jack ass responses and if you know of the answer just lead the way. Not asking a lot. But thanks for your time.
 
Hi,

Mac Pro 2.1 (1.1 -> 2.1) 10.9.3 - 13D12

Update to 13D19, Tiamo and tobyg work but :

GTX 650 GTX 670 do not work anymore, XT1900 works, back to 13D12.

Update to 13D21, Tiamo and tobyg work but :

GTX 650 GTX 670 do not work anymore, XT1900 works, back to 13D12.

:eek:
 
Three Start Up Chimes

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can advise.

I have upgraded my Mac Pro 1,1 with a 5770 to 10.9.2 (from 10.7.5) using SFOTT. After one or two initial permissions problems that I manually fixed (I think because my home directory is not on the system drive) it all seems to work well. There are a couple of things that remain as 'niggles' and I can't find reference to these elsewhere:

1. On startup I now get three system chimes; the first is 'normal' volume and appears to come through my external speakers. The second two sound a if they come from the MacPro speaker (lower volume). There is a delay of a couple of seconds after each one. Thereafter it starts up normally.

2. To try and resolve the above, I have reset PRAM and SMC. Immediately after that reset (and I have tried this more than once and can repeat) when I restart it seems to start into a 10.7.5 recovery partition. Any idea why the system may look for a recovery partition after the PRAM/SMC reset and should I get rid of that partition? (If so, how do I do this?).

Many thanks,

David
 
torchy said:
Hi,

Wondering if anyone can advise.

I have upgraded my Mac Pro 1,1 with a 5770 to 10.9.2 (from 10.7.5) using SFOTT. After one or two initial permissions problems that I manually fixed (I think because my home directory is not on the system drive) it all seems to work well. There are a couple of things that remain as 'niggles' and I can't find reference to these elsewhere:

1. On startup I now get three system chimes; the first is 'normal' volume and appears to come through my external speakers. The second two sound a if they come from the MacPro speaker (lower volume). There is a delay of a couple of seconds after each one. Thereafter it starts up normally.

2. To try and resolve the above, I have reset PRAM and SMC. Immediately after that reset (and I have tried this more than once and can repeat) when I restart it seems to start into a 10.7.5 recovery partition. Any idea why the system may look for a recovery partition after the PRAM/SMC reset and should I get rid of that partition? (If so, how do I do this?).

Many thanks,

David
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Probably symptoms of dead/dying pRAM battery.
 
Robert Davies said:
Probably symptoms of dead/dying pRAM battery.
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Hi Robert,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have just been out and bought and replaced battery (7 years old so needed it anyway I suspect) but I still get three chimes at start-up. Very odd. But all else seems okay so I am not going to lose sleep over it, it just seems very strange.
 
torchy said:
Hi Robert,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have just been out and bought and replaced battery (7 years old so needed it anyway I suspect) but I still get three chimes at start-up. Very odd. But all else seems okay so I am not going to lose sleep over it, it just seems very strange.
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As an experiment try booting with your keyboard unplugged - does it still boot with three chimes (plug it in after the boot has finished of course!).
 
Robert Davies said:
As an experiment try booting with your keyboard unplugged - does it still boot with three chimes (plug it in after the boot has finished of course!).
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Hi Robert,

It wasn't that, turns out it was my Drobo.

http://support.drobo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/287/~/why-does-my-mac-pro-hang-for-several-chimes-when-it-is-booting-with-a-drobo

Not sure why it is only now doing this, guess it's something to do with the change to the EFI. Anyway, thanks for all your help, greatly appreciated.

David
 
Okay, I've been at this for a while and can't get anything to install. I followed the exact instructions to the last detail possible, and I either get a black screen with a flashing question mark folder, or an error message that displays for a quick second and disappears before I can read it, then shows the grey screen with the Apple on it. No idea what is going wrong. I didn't use the terminal method to create the bootable USB drive, fyi, I replaced the boot.efi by deleting it with a terminal command and replaced it by dragging and dropping it in the appropriate folders.

My specs:
- Mac Pro 1,1
- 6gb Ram
- 2x2.66ghz Xeon
- OSX Leopard
- ATI Radeon x1900

Do I have to have Snow Leopard installed for this to work, or can it work from a blank HDD? :confused: I have a Leopard install disc, so that's what I'm using. I don't have a copy of Snow Leopard. Any ideas? Thanks.

Shogun.
 
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