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The ComboUpdate requires reinstalling the boot.efi. But in my case, it also killed iMessage.
I restored the 10.9.3 version and used the incremental update. That worked fine.
Just did the deltas from 10.9.1 all the way to 10.9.4 without issues.
Just to be safe I ran tobyg's patch between each update. Not a hitch all the way through!
I am running a Mac Pro 1.1 with a firmware update to 2.1 and used SFOTT to do the initial Mavericks install. Boot drive is an OWC 128GB SSD, CPUs upgraded to 5355 SLAEGs, 14GB of RAM and a flashed ATI 5870 with 1GB of RAM.
Everything appears to be working fine.
Thanks to all who made this possible!!!
MacDann
Just to be safe I ran tobyg's patch between each update. Not a hitch all the way through!
I am running a Mac Pro 1.1 with a firmware update to 2.1 and used SFOTT to do the initial Mavericks install. Boot drive is an OWC 128GB SSD, CPUs upgraded to 5355 SLAEGs, 14GB of RAM and a flashed ATI 5870 with 1GB of RAM.
Everything appears to be working fine.
Thanks to all who made this possible!!!
MacDann
Updated to 10.9.4 from 10.9.4 no Problems, Running on a Mac Pro 1.1 with a Custon Tiamo Hack.
Apple is Focus on Yosemite so you won't have to worry about them change the boot
Apple is Focus on Yosemite so you won't have to worry about them change the boot
Hi all
I upgraded to 10,9,4 and I emerged the following problem. My computer does not recognize my second monitor. The principal is an HD Cinema and well, but second LG monitor does not appear anywhere. The update has been 10,9,1 to 10,9,4. Has anyone else has gone the same? Any solution?
I am running a Mac Pro 1.1 with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048 MB
I upgraded to 10,9,4 and I emerged the following problem. My computer does not recognize my second monitor. The principal is an HD Cinema and well, but second LG monitor does not appear anywhere. The update has been 10,9,1 to 10,9,4. Has anyone else has gone the same? Any solution?
I am running a Mac Pro 1.1 with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048 MB
No.
I can not exchange monitors being different connection. I would have to buy an adapter to HDMI
I see have you got a TV or something you could try plugging in to see if the card is outputting to multiple ports or not? If not Im not sure what else you could do?
I'm still on 10.9.3 (Mac Pro 1,1 with Radeon HD 5770) but have had problems with my second monitor not being recognised on start up or wake from sleep in Mavericks - though it was better in 10.9.2. My workaround is to go into displays preferences and select "mirror displays" which seems to wake up the connection to the second monitor, then when I switch this off I get proper dual display functionality. HTH
Problems...
Setup : MP1.1->2.1 // 12Gb // 7300gt and/or asus 560Ti 1mb.
In short, did the 1.1 -> 2.1 update yesterday and after 6-7 tries with to create
a USB stick I finally managed to make a bootable one AND managed to instal
Mavericks...kind of.
The problem is that I can only successfully boot into 10.9.3 in safe mode.
If I try to boot it in normal mode the boot hangs after 10 seconds in a black screen with text (see attachment) . Nothing happens after that.
If I boot in safe mode I get to the desktop with both the 7300 & 560Ti.
Things seem to "work" there, obviously slowly with 7300 but with 560Ti
things seem to work a bit better. Safari lags with both etc...
Updated the CUDA to 6.0.46 but it shows in red "Update Required".
GPU driver version is greyed out and 8.26.21 310.40.35f08.
Nvidia Driver manager does not work, gives the "Unable to open...try again or reinstall.."
Have reseted the Pram & SMC, and have read this thread couple of times.
Boot.efi file is from the Tiamos post on page 2, 463kb.
So if anyone can give me some pointers I would be a happy camper!
Is the text prompts in the startup because I have some weird verbose mode of the boot.efi and is it that thats causing problems? I have tried to search a bit more on that topic but things are starting to get blurry after 20hours of sitting..
Again, I thanks in advance!
Setup : MP1.1->2.1 // 12Gb // 7300gt and/or asus 560Ti 1mb.
In short, did the 1.1 -> 2.1 update yesterday and after 6-7 tries with to create
a USB stick I finally managed to make a bootable one AND managed to instal
Mavericks...kind of.
The problem is that I can only successfully boot into 10.9.3 in safe mode.
If I try to boot it in normal mode the boot hangs after 10 seconds in a black screen with text (see attachment) . Nothing happens after that.
If I boot in safe mode I get to the desktop with both the 7300 & 560Ti.
Things seem to "work" there, obviously slowly with 7300 but with 560Ti
things seem to work a bit better. Safari lags with both etc...
Updated the CUDA to 6.0.46 but it shows in red "Update Required".
GPU driver version is greyed out and 8.26.21 310.40.35f08.
Nvidia Driver manager does not work, gives the "Unable to open...try again or reinstall.."
Have reseted the Pram & SMC, and have read this thread couple of times.
Boot.efi file is from the Tiamos post on page 2, 463kb.
So if anyone can give me some pointers I would be a happy camper!
Is the text prompts in the startup because I have some weird verbose mode of the boot.efi and is it that thats causing problems? I have tried to search a bit more on that topic but things are starting to get blurry after 20hours of sitting..
Again, I thanks in advance!
Attachments
It looks like there are some remains of the hackintosh way of installing Mavericks (or ML perhaps). I've only come across OemSMBIOS in that context, e.g. on tonymac.
Wow dude!!! Bang on! Thanks to your heads up I got things running!!!
Weirdest thing.. I know I checked out the tonymax´s multi beast...but that
was on a totally different HDD. The current HDD is a CCC copy of my backup drive where the should not have been any traces of that kind of programs.
Now it is just to find out why I don't appear to have any sounds... neither
in 10.9.3 or 10.7.5... Start chime sounds, sounds work normally under bootcamp
and I even deleted the appleHDA kext to no avail..Oh well, you win some, you lose some..
But thanks again Sko, You saved my ass. Get a big pint of german weissbier tonight and pat yourself in the back!
Just installed 10.9 to MP1,1. Thanks to tiamo and oemden! (I would like to donate something to somewhere, maybe Unicef?...)
Some things I'd use the expertise of you people:
1. What files I should pull from old SL boot disk for x1900?
(If I try to check System Information, the MP logs me out... )
2. Can I install recovery partition (to get Find My Mac working, etc.) afterwards with SFOTT or otherwise?
3. I'm next installing GTX760. Can it co-exist with x1900 or should I put 7300GT to accompany it?
Funny thing happened with SFOTT. I first tried to use usb key with GUID, but MP couldn't boot. Checked it with Disk Utility and it said “Partition Map Scheme: Unformatted”. Don't know what went wrong with SFOTT, but then tried with MBR and MP booted just fine. So, a Real Mac can boot from MBR usb stick...
Some things I'd use the expertise of you people:
1. What files I should pull from old SL boot disk for x1900?
(If I try to check System Information, the MP logs me out...
)2. Can I install recovery partition (to get Find My Mac working, etc.) afterwards with SFOTT or otherwise?
3. I'm next installing GTX760. Can it co-exist with x1900 or should I put 7300GT to accompany it?
If anybody could offer drivers from 10.8 (or if they don't exist, then from 10.7) to x1900 and 7300gt, I'd like to test them out.
Gtx760 works just fine, but I'd like to keep one card installed, which shows poot screen if needed.
System information:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-3
PCIe Lane Width: x4
VRAM (Total): 5 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0393
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3008
Also mac doesn't recognize monitor model...
I guess it was same thing with x1900.
I might prefer having 7300gt installed, since I'm really not using it and it uses less power and doesn't need additional cables. (I'd have to buy cable for x1900 and more molex splitters, since gtx760 is using the old cable.)
Gtx760 works just fine, but I'd like to keep one card installed, which shows poot screen if needed.
System information:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-3
PCIe Lane Width: x4
VRAM (Total): 5 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0393
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3008
Also mac doesn't recognize monitor model...
I guess it was same thing with x1900.
I might prefer having 7300gt installed, since I'm really not using it and it uses less power and doesn't need additional cables. (I'd have to buy cable for x1900 and more molex splitters, since gtx760 is using the old cable.)
Oh well, seems that 64-bit drivers for these cards were never written.
What would be cheapest card that can show boot screen (ie. have 64-bit drivers), originally with efi or one that could be flashed?
Considering you don't really know what you did, I think, for now, I'll stick to the traditional view that real Macs can't boot from a non-GUID USB stick.
Considering that I did boot from MBR partitioned usb stick, your considering doesn't matter. Even if I can't use "the force" to know what SFOTT is doing in auto-mode.
Anyway, still, can anybody enlighten me if restore partition can be installed to 10.9 boot disk without making new os installation? It takes hours to migrate data...
I'm still looking for lowest power/price single slot gnu with boot screen...GT120?
Can AMD & nVidia cards happily co-exist in Mavericks?
EDIT:
I tried to find out what is really needed for boot screen for Mav in mp1,1 with Tiamo's trick (w/o 64b EFI).
Is it really so, that I need a card with both 32b & 64b EFI? This would mean just few ATI cards...
Or is it enough to have a card with 32b EFI, but it needs to have 64b drivers? (Pretty much only option would be 8800GT?)
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They boot from MBR USB sticks just fine, you only need to have the bootloader on it (like when flashing SMC). USB stick with SFOTT partitioned as MBR works as well.
Well, considering I'm NOT the one having problems or asking for advice, it DOES matter quite a bit. As I said, considering you don't really know what you did, I'll stick to reputed sources of information, thank you very much.
EDIT: For instance, MacEFIRom, a highly reputed expert (actually, I think he's responsible for the unofficial update of the Mac Pro 1,1 firmware to 2,1), has this to say on the issue: "It's actually pretty easy once you know what to do and how to configure everything. In essence you will be booting the Mac Pro in what's called "Legacy Mode" which is Apple's way of saying a normal PC BIOS environment, not the EFI32 environment. One of the things I struggled with is that Apple's EFI implementation will not boot any sort of USB or Firewire storage in "Legacy Mode", so this has to be done on an internal hard drive. The Chameleon boot partition can be on a separate drive in the system or on an additional partition. The separate drive has the benefit of not having to touch the Mac OS partition at all, so it is very clean, but requires using a drive sled spot or using an additional drive in the optical bay area. In either case, the system can be booted the original way via the EFI32 mode, or the chameleon way for 64 bit kernel, so it's a very flexible solution." (http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html).
Frankly, when one considers the relative weight to be attributed to someone's assessment on the issue, your opinion does not compare too favourably with MacEFIRom's.
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Oh well, sometimes it's good to think by yourself or even trying something by yourself.
Why don't you boot your mac with SFOTT in MBR partitioned usb stick? Just see it yourself.
Just because I'm asking (thank you very much for not having any answers, I'm trying in another thread...) something, doesn't mean I don't know something other.
Simple explanation for your quote is, that in legacy mode MP can't boot from MBR, but in normal EFI mode it can.
Btw, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Disk_device_compatibility :"In addition to the standard PC disk partition scheme, which uses a master boot record (MBR), UEFI works with a new partitioning scheme: GUID Partition Table (GPT)."
Do you or MacEFIRom have explanation how macs can boot from optical disk? There's no GPT in those...
I've never had any use for SFOTT in MBR or GUID. I've been running Mountain Lion AND Mavericks from before the official date of release of both systems using Chameleon (booted from an internal hard disk, naturally) and it always worked flawlessly. When Tiamo's boot.efi appeared, I changed transparently to that, leaving Chameleon behind, and it worked. So I have no need whatsoever for SFOTT software, although it may obviously be useful for others.
FYI, I was just suggesting for you to test out MBR booting. Not that you would do anything with SFOTT.
'Nuff said.