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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

7950 and Chameleon

This is wonderful.

I was running a Mac Pro 2.1 with Chameleon OSX 10.9 and a flashed MSI 7950.
To get the damn thing to boot also had my Apple 5770 connected to one monitor. (Don't ask me how solved the powerproblem to the 5770. It surely wasn't pretty :D) Chameleon was of course on a IDE drive from the stoneage, wich made the booting painfully slow.

But then I found out about this thread.

Swapped out the boot.efi as suggested by tiamo. Didn't even do a fresh install. Pulled out the 5770 and the chameleon IDE-drive. And everything works perfect.

Tiamo: You Sir, the next beer you are having is on me. What's your paypal account. And a BIG thank you.
 
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Mavericks Install Guide

Here is an updated version of my Mavericks install-guide for Mac(Pros).

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resale said:
I followed the instructions by tiamo to the letter, I reboot to my usb and get this:
Image
Any advice on how to actually start/finish would be greatly appreciated.
I'm doing this on a Mac Pro 1,1 flashed to 2,1, 16gb ram and Apple 5770.
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Take a look here.

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porg said:
Which Mavericks files must I delete from where?
Which Lion files must I add where?
Then just boot into this modified OS?
Or any further processing such as purging some cache files/folders, config files to edit, processes/scripts to run?
Thanks for help.
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If you have Mavericks running on your unsupported Mac install those files using Kext Utility.app.
 
Hi all,

10.9.1 updated from 13B35 to 13B40 without any problem, boot.efi (both) not replaced by the update.
 
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does it work with mountain lion

Hi, thanks for wonderful post. I am going to install mountain lion on my mac pro 2.1 and was wondering is it possible to replace your boot.efi in mountain lion instead of mavericks and follow the rest of the tutorial? thanks
 
icymac said:
Hi, thanks for wonderful post. I am going to install mountain lion on my mac pro 2.1 and was wondering is it possible to replace your boot.efi in mountain lion instead of mavericks and follow the rest of the tutorial? thanks
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No, but on the Mountain Lion thread you will find an older guide by me (somewhere after page 100) which works. However I don't recommend installing Mountain Lion if you can get Mavericks for free (which is essentially the same but has more features).

If you decide to install ML on your Mac anyway don't use MLPF.app as it will not work on MacPros!
 
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Thank you for the boot efi. Very good work.
But on my mac pro 2.1 the hibernation modus doesn't work. the mac pro restarts after wake up. Can anyone help me, please?
 
Traxxmaster said:
Thank you for the boot efi. Very good work.
But on my mac pro 2.1 the hibernation modus doesn't work. the mac pro restarts after wake up. Can anyone help me, please?
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I have got the same issue with my MacBook Pro, although I thought it's due to the custom installed FusionDrive. However waking from hibernation already worked a couple of times, just not always.
You may try disabling hibernation, deleting the "sleepimage" file (somewhere at /var/db/ I think) and reenabling hibernation afterwards (this will recreate the sleepimage).
 
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Rastafabi said:
I have got the same issue with my MacBook Pro, although I thought it's due to the custom installed FusionDrive. However waking from hibernation already worked a couple of times, just not always.
You may try disabling hibernation, deleting the "sleepimage" file (somewhere at /var/db/ I think) and reenabling hibernation afterwards (this will recreate the sleepimage).
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unfortunately it does´t work. :confused:
 
Got a Free MacPro 1,1 and the this process has given this machine a new lease on life, I bought a set of 3Ghz CPUs from eBay for $17 and another 4gigs of ram for $25. I had a GeForce GT240 video card and that is working great. I have a spare 120gb SSD that will be going in it for Boot and apps and a 500gb data drive.

This machine did not have Wifi or Bluetooth, everything works, sleep, sound, fan speeds. I am wondering if wifi and Bluetooth are causing issues for others.
 
Traxxmaster said:
unfortunately it does´t work. :confused:
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Well, I' Lucky, as I don't really need it, as the MacBook Pro boots in 15 (+/-5)s due to the FusionDrive. An SSD for the system might do it for you...

@Tiamo: Any idea why waking from hibernation does not always work?
 
@Rastafabi: I installed your provided X1600 drivers from 10.8 on my MBP2,2 running 10.9 with tiamo-EFI-32.

The system can enter sleep mode now, but it takes impractically long for a portable!

From issuing the sleep command until the machine finally sleeps (no fans audible, power status LED pulsating) it takes:

19 seconds into Sleep mode (pmset hibernatemode 0)
40-45 seconds into modes Hibernate or Safe Sleep (pmset hibernatemode 1 or 3)

For comparison:
1-2 secs into sleep mode on the same MBP2,2 running 10.6.8.

So, sleep is now working, but far from perfect. Acceptable if the laptop is used mostly stationary.
Combined with having no graphics acceleration, 10.9 on a MBP2,2 is currently undesirable. Should GPU acceleration come (how are the chances?) then it would be a fine system.
 
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Hi ho,

it looks like I ´m not able to Install mavericks as smooth as I´d like to.

I think I might messed it up somewehere following Rastafabi´s latest How to.

After booting from USB Stick or USB HDD I get a Kernel Panic saying:

zone_init: kmem_suballoc failed@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72/isfmk/kern/zaloc.c:2181

an below it´s telling me: can´t perform kext scan: no kext summary

Any idea what went wrong?

Running a 1,1 16GB Ram HD5870 10.7.5

THX!


Edit:
Got it!
I was NOT running the latest How to and triggerd the boot.efi Placeholder trap :)
Installation running right now! Just amazing work!
 
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i just picked up a 2,1 3ghz 8 core mac pro for a good price. i was looking to install 10.9 on it.

whats the cheapest video card i can get to run it with the least amount of trouble? any recommendations?
 
I wrote a little tool for the boot.efi replacement procedure. Simply drag&drop the modded boot.efi file onto the Program icon. You will asked for admin password and a Window will open where you can see the process.

That´s the code inside my app:

Code: 
#!/bin/sh

echo "boot.efi Patcher by Prof. Dr. Luigi"
echo ""
sudo chflags nouchg /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
echo "Unlocked boot.efi"
sudo cp -f /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi ~/Desktop/boot.efi.orig
echo ""
echo "Created backup of your old boot.efi on your Desktop."
echo ""

sudo cp -f "$1" /System/Library/CoreServices/
if [[ "$?" = 0 ]]; then
echo "Copied boot.efi to /System/Library/CoreServices"
else
echo "An Error has occured. Try again."
fi

sudo cp -f "$1" /usr/standalone/i386/
if [[ "$?" = 0 ]]; then
echo "Copied boot.efi to /usr/standalone/i386"
else
echo "An Error has occured. Try again."
fi
echo ""
echo "Setting the correct flags."
sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
sudo chflags uchg /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
echo ""
echo "You can quit this Application now."

The app will make a backup of the orig boot.efi on your Desktop.

Now have Fun with it. (-:

EDIT:

Found a bug in my script. Here is the new one:

http://ul.to/scvlb6e8
 
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I've got a quick question. Is this a true 64-bit kernel, or is it just rerouting 64-bit calls to the 32-bit kernel userspace? I ask because there are occasionally apps that on a 64-bit system can handle >2 GB RAM, but on 32-bit kernels will crash.

Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls beta client is one of those special cases. On any OS with a 32-bit kernel userspace, it will crash when attempting to allocate more than 2 GB RAM, but will work flawlessly on a 64-bit kernel userspace OS.

Just trying to get clarification so I and others know that particular detail going forward in case we run into anything...weird.
 
Your Mac is booted into 64 Bit Kernel.
 

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Fantastic! I recently upgraded from a MP 1,1 to MP 4,1, but this would have convinced me to stay a bit longer with my oldie...

Just curious, is this boot file specific to old MP or could it theoretically be used with other EFI32 machines?

I still have an old MacBook 2007 that I woul love upgrading to Maverick, if only to be able to use the latest iLife/iWork apps and be more in synch the rest of my OSX and iOS machines. I unsterdand there is currently no 64 bit driver for the X3100 card, but if someone can develop such a thing as this hacked boot file, there should be hope for a community developed X3100 driver.
 
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