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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks
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Thank you so much YvesBd, the waiting for root device line was just giving me headache but this method works for my mac pro 1,1 2007, I now run mavericks on it. I had to replace the OSInstall.mpkg tho with one that makes the mavericks not require the board id (attached incase anyone needs it), I still kept the board id on the InstallableMachines.plist file on the last position. It works! Thank you
Another MP1,1 success - but, one nuisance (verbose)
I can echo others' success reports with my MacPro 1,1 with ATI HD 4870 (replaced my XT 1900 long ago when it failed).
I too missed the messages on the USB key issues. I was using a 64GB SanDisk Cruzer and couldn't get my Mac to boot from it. Thinking I was doing something wrong, I recreated the key probably 6 times, which takes some time copying the 5GB installation to a flash drive! Before I gave up, I decided to try to put the Tiamo modified Mavericks installation disk on one partition of a two partition spare hard disk. After all, it's a Mac Pro with 4 drive bays (sniff!). I was able to install to the second partition of the hard disk - it completely worked!
I can't tell you how helpful this is to me!
I have one problem: Since I was having problems initially, I created my Mavericks installation disk (i.e., the hard disk based one that actually succeeded) with the verbose boot.efi. Now that my installation worked, I'd like to go to the graphic boot.efi.
I've tried to replace the two installed boot.efi files with the graphics versions but my machine always boots in verbose mode. I've even tried booting from a Lion disk (so that Mavericks volume wasn't booted), then replaced the boot.efi files with the graphics versions. I am careful to apply the lock flag and confirm the root:wheel ownership of the files, and replace them in both places. However, no matter what the verbose mode is used when booting.
I've confirmed my nvram does not have the "-v" boot argument. I've reset nvram.
I've also confirmed that my /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist was essentially empty (kernel flags string was empty).
I've carefully downloaded the two boot.efi variations (graphics and text) to make sure I haven't mixed them up. Strangely, diff reports that the files are exactly the same (?).
Any ideas?
I can echo others' success reports with my MacPro 1,1 with ATI HD 4870 (replaced my XT 1900 long ago when it failed).
I too missed the messages on the USB key issues. I was using a 64GB SanDisk Cruzer and couldn't get my Mac to boot from it. Thinking I was doing something wrong, I recreated the key probably 6 times, which takes some time copying the 5GB installation to a flash drive! Before I gave up, I decided to try to put the Tiamo modified Mavericks installation disk on one partition of a two partition spare hard disk. After all, it's a Mac Pro with 4 drive bays (sniff!). I was able to install to the second partition of the hard disk - it completely worked!
I can't tell you how helpful this is to me!
I have one problem: Since I was having problems initially, I created my Mavericks installation disk (i.e., the hard disk based one that actually succeeded) with the verbose boot.efi. Now that my installation worked, I'd like to go to the graphic boot.efi.
I've tried to replace the two installed boot.efi files with the graphics versions but my machine always boots in verbose mode. I've even tried booting from a Lion disk (so that Mavericks volume wasn't booted), then replaced the boot.efi files with the graphics versions. I am careful to apply the lock flag and confirm the root:wheel ownership of the files, and replace them in both places. However, no matter what the verbose mode is used when booting.
I've confirmed my nvram does not have the "-v" boot argument. I've reset nvram.
I've also confirmed that my /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist was essentially empty (kernel flags string was empty).
I've carefully downloaded the two boot.efi variations (graphics and text) to make sure I haven't mixed them up. Strangely, diff reports that the files are exactly the same (?).
Any ideas?
When I first installed Tiamo's non-verbose version of boot.efi, it once retained its verbosity. I suppose it must have been cached or something. The problem went away after resetting PRAM. If that doesn't do it, you must have actually installed the verbose version, not the "silent" one.
got rid of verbose mode
Quick summary -
I installed Mavericks with the verbose Tiamo boot.efi. I replaced the installed boot.efi with the graphical (non-verbose) Tiamo boot.efi, but I still booted verbose.
I did reset PRAM, but that didn't work.
What did work was to re-install Mavericks which was modified with the non-verbose boot.efi to the disk (partition) where I originally installed the verbose Mavericks.
This had the effect of overwriting the installation without disturbing the few applications I had already set up. Yay!
Quick summary -
I installed Mavericks with the verbose Tiamo boot.efi. I replaced the installed boot.efi with the graphical (non-verbose) Tiamo boot.efi, but I still booted verbose.
I did reset PRAM, but that didn't work.
What did work was to re-install Mavericks which was modified with the non-verbose boot.efi to the disk (partition) where I originally installed the verbose Mavericks.
This had the effect of overwriting the installation without disturbing the few applications I had already set up. Yay!
This thread is about early Mac Pros, not about unsupported MacBooks. The problem with early Mac Pros is the 32-bit EFI and the graphics card most of the units shipped with. Fortunately, the graphics card can be replaced and Tiamo's boot.efi solves the former issue. Early MacBooks, on the other hand, have the issue of incompatible built-in graphics. Tiamo's boot.efi won't solve that problem.
so you're saying that i cannot install mavericks on that machine? am i right?
I don't know the specific details of your machine, but the reasons it isn't supported in Mavericks are its hardware is not up to par. You might find some help in a thread by HackerWayne (I think that's his name), but other than that, you may be out of luck. As I said, early Mac Pros' problem is different: hardware issues are all solvable, except for the 32-bit EFI, but that's precisely where Tiamo's boot.efi does its magic. Naturally, if someone wanted to run Mavericks on a Mac Pro 1,1 with an unsupported graphics card, Tiamo's boot.efi would allow them to boot, but the experience would be quite bad, with no acceleration and constant glitches, et cetera.
youtube safari-firefox
I´ve just installed 9.2 in a Mac Pro 1,1 and everything seems to work fine apart from safari, I can´t see video from sites as youtube however google chrome it does work properly. Also the fan of my ati 5770 are very noisy after sleep.
can someone explain why?
Thanks a lot
I´ve just installed 9.2 in a Mac Pro 1,1 and everything seems to work fine apart from safari, I can´t see video from sites as youtube however google chrome it does work properly. Also the fan of my ati 5770 are very noisy after sleep.
can someone explain why?
Thanks a lot
So, when people say MacPro1,1 or MacPro2,1, they're referring to the Model number of the machine.
It sounds like you have a MacBook2,1, whilst this also has a 32bit EFI with Tiamo's mod will work for you, Audio WiFi and Graphics will be problems for you because a) there are no drivers for them in mavericks and b) you can't replace them (with the possible exception of WiFi)
Your MacBook2,1 supports Lion, personally I'd keep it on that.
A MacBook 2,1 does not look like a Mac Pro 2,1. They are completely different machines. The MacBook is a laptop computer. The Mac Pro is a desktop computer. The coincidence of "2,1", in this case, means nothing.
Well done. That probably means you have Mountain Lion-compatible drivers for your hardware. Now, if you could only get the same thing for Mavericks, you'd reach your goal.
I guess, that the GPU heats up quickly, when the computer returns from sleep.
So the fan has to suddenly scatter a lot of heat, that has to go away fast.
The fan only can do that running full speed for a time.
This is a common problem in control theory.
Gtx-680
I got everything working then bought a GTX-680 off of ebay that supposedly has a mac efi boot rom, but I do not see the boot screen. Is this to be expected on a mac 2,1? How can I confirm the presence of a proper mac efi boot rom on the card?
Kevin
I got everything working then bought a GTX-680 off of ebay that supposedly has a mac efi boot rom, but I do not see the boot screen. Is this to be expected on a mac 2,1? How can I confirm the presence of a proper mac efi boot rom on the card?
Kevin
AFAIK you need at least a MacPro3,1 for the GTX-680 (I think the card lacks 32bit EFI compatibility).
lastest Flash not working
The latest Flash is not working on 2006-2007 Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1. This Adobe page confirms it. http://forums.adobe.com/message/6294011?tstart=0 and explains. Hopefully new version coming shortly will resolve it.
The latest Flash is not working on 2006-2007 Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1. This Adobe page confirms it. http://forums.adobe.com/message/6294011?tstart=0 and explains. Hopefully new version coming shortly will resolve it.
Flashed or not it will beahave like a PC one in 1,1/2,1 = no bootscreen. These Macs are unable to load 64bit-only EFI and use only PC part of the ROM.