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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

PorkPieHat said:
Do I need to apply the TiamoMacProFix.pkg to my Late-2006 Core2Duo ATI1600 iMac 5.1 to update from OS 10.7.5 to Mountain Lion, or is that just for Mac Pros, as its name suggests?
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I'm not sure how you could benefit from Tiamo's boot.efi or from TiamoMacProFix.pkg. Tiamo's boot.efi is a 32-bit boot loader masquerading as 64 bits. It boots a native 32-bit EFI. Naturally, it's only useful for machines with such an EFI. Machines with a 64-bit EFI don't need it.

TiamoMacProFix.pkg is a scheduled routine that sees to it that Tiamo's boot.efi will be properly restored in a couple of folders before the system reboots. In other words, even if a system update were to replace Tiamo's boot.efi with a bona-fide 64-bit Mavericks boo.efi, the latter will get overwritten again by Tiamo's wonder boot loader (otherwise, a 32-bit EFI computer wouldn't boot).
 
Snowshiro said:
What that says to me, is not that they're slow, but they they're still perfectly capable of running modern Operating Systems and applications at a very usable pace.

My 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 with upgraded processors gets over 10,000 on geekbench, which only a fraction under a 2012 15" Quad Ivy Bridge Macbook Pro Retina 2.3 Ghz. When your 7 year old machine is still able to run at that pace, it's comfortably good enough for prime time work.

Sure they're not miles ahead of the pack any more, but they're still in the same league as the modern machines most people use every day.
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What I want to know is how the heck does a 1,1 get that high of a score?? My 4,1 isn't even that high. It scores 9417. So....I'm call crap or messed up results.

Specs are quad core 2.66, 16GB of RAM, GTX 760, SSD, 10.9
 
tosh.macin said:
What I want to know is how the heck does a 1,1 get that high of a score?? My 4,1 isn't even that high. It scores 9417. So....I'm call crap or messed up results.

Specs are quad core 2.66, 16GB of RAM, GTX 760, SSD, 10.9
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This is my 2,1

3.0Ghz 8-core
8Gb Ram
AMD 6870
60Gb SSD

i get around 11500-11700
 

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tosh.macin said:
What I want to know is how the heck does a 1,1 get that high of a score?? My 4,1 isn't even that high. It scores 9417. So....I'm call crap or messed up results.

Specs are quad core 2.66, 16GB of RAM, GTX 760, SSD, 10.9
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Don't be a hater, upgrade your CPUs.

Mac Pro 1,1 flashed to 2,1
8GB RAM
GTX 570 (unflashed)
120GB SSD
10.9.2
 

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tosh.macin said:
What I want to know is how the heck does a 1,1 get that high of a score?? My 4,1 isn't even that high. It scores 9417. So....I'm call crap or messed up results.

Specs are quad core 2.66, 16GB of RAM, GTX 760, SSD, 10.9
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Perfectly possible. My 2006 1.1 upgraded to 2.1 with two quad core 2.66 processors, ATI 5770, SSD, 20gig ram, 10.9.2
 

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10.9.3

So 10.9.3 is now released. Can we safely run the update (without it overwriting Tiamo’s EFI.bios)?
 
I'll be finding out tonight. Luckily I have my MBP that I can use to FireWire in to replace boot.efi if it does.
 
I've update with tobyg's TiamoMacProFix installed. No problem.

Update: I checked the standalone delta update with Pacifist and it does not contain a boot.efi. The update from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3 should be safe without any preparation. This is obviously not true for the combo update.
 
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Sko said:
Update: I checked the standalone delta update with Pacifist and it does not contain a boot.efi. The update from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3 should be safe without any preparation. This is obviously not true for the combo update.
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I can confirm that. I didn't have the shutdown script installed and the update just worked fine.
 
Sko said:
Update: I checked the standalone delta update with Pacifist and it does not contain a boot.efi. The update from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3 should be safe without any preparation. This is obviously not true for the combo update.
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Confirmed also. I don't have that script installed but the update to 10.9.3 was fine. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Combo Update

In the interests of science, I did the Combo Update on a Mac Pro 1,1 running 10.9.2 that had been previously SFOTTed.

Combo Update ran just fine- but the machine kept rebooting over and over after it ran successfully. Bleah!

Luckily, I had a Lion partition I could boot to (after I switched a nVidia 7300 GT back in to see the boot, was running a GTX 660Ti) and had SFOTT still installed there.

SFOTT has a tool that re-patches existing installs. I told SFOTT to re-patch the now 10.9.3 partition. It did so in a jiffy and when I rebooted I was back in Mavericks 10.9.3, with everything working, no harm, no foul.

People using CUDA will unfortunately HAVE to switch to the new 6.0.37 drivers as the 5.5.47 drivers don't seem to be compatible with 10.9.3.

So, yeah, don't run the 10.9.3 Combo Update unless you have SFOTT on a bootable key or partition ready to re-patch your Mavericks.
 
Just updated to 10.9.3 - the boot.efi is updated by the combo installer, but once it's swapped for tiamo's 64-to-32 version everything runs perfectly again.

In case you want an automated way to do it remotely (and you're not using some other solution already) I've got a little boot.efi script with a watchdog that replaces the files when they're changed. You need to run it from a remote terminal session, as the update isn't really applied until all console users are kicked out.
 
richgoga said:
Yes, No 64bit, what else do you want to know? :)
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Not a lot. Just so I can compare. Whcih I was going to do soon but might now wait until I find out more about the 10.9.3 permissions thing with the user folder.

Parasprite said:
/Users/ hidden and so is Shared (although I hid the latter one myself already...)
Updated via App Store.
3 user accounts.
Funny ACL entries in log.
/Users/ also has Read and Write priviledges for Everyone (this seems dubious, but I don't remember if that was there before).
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Can you navigate to any other user folders that you could not access before the update though?
Can you now get into /Users/Other User for example?
 
Just to report that 10.9.3 update works great on Mac Pro 2,1 (Radeon 7970).

I used tobyg's solution, it's so elegant! Thanks a lot! :)
 
Double reboot

tobyg said:
Essentially, the time stamp on the files should be updated every time you reboot with the current time you rebooted.
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Taking the opportunity of that recent message of yours to ask a question: after installing that TiamoMacProFix.dmg of yours, each time I reboot, the computer does not finish to boot: it reboots by itself and that time the boot proceeds to completion. Is that normal? I've got a MacPro 1,1 and it behaved so with the both of MacOS 10.9.2 and 10.9.3.
 
...but how do you get the update?

I'm running 10.9.2 using tiamo's boot.efi on a MacPro 1,1. When I go to Software Update, it sees that I need an update to 10.9.3, but when I click "update" is says "Mavericks can not be installed on this computer".

I originally used Mavericks Download Enabler to get the full 10.9.2 install. Do I need to do that again? Or, is there an easier way?

Thanks.
 
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