MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro5,1: What you have to do to upgrade to Mojave (10.13/10.14 BootROM upgrades instructions thread)

[tsialex]

Had the same problem. On correct firmware. MP 2009. Trying to install to internal SSD drive. Haven't resolved it so far. Attempted twice, installer left a mess behind in /MacOS Install (or similar). Check your root folder. If you have that and want to clear it you have to disable csrutil in recovery mode to use rm -rf, then of course re-enable it. Please post back if you give a solution. (Q: Did you make any copy of the Mojave installer elsewhere? I did and suspect a connection.)

To troubleshoot, always fully erase your drive, per example:

diskutil list
diskutil unmountdisk diskXX
sudo gpt destroy diskXX

You have to change diskXX to the disk you want to fully erase. You need two drives to do this or if you have just one drive, you will need to do this from the USB installer. You can't do this with your booted drive.

 

[lowendlinux]

Had the same problem. On correct firmware. MP 2009. Trying to install to internal SSD drive. Haven't resolved it so far. Attempted twice, installer left a mess behind in /MacOS Install (or similar). Check your root folder. If you have that and want to clear it you have to disable csrutil in recovery mode to use rm -rf, then of course re-enable it. Please post back if you give a solution. (Q: Did you make any copy of the Mojave installer elsewhere? I did and suspect a connection.)

I created a thumb drive and pulled all my drives but a fresh hard drive and it still gave me the same error.

When I find a solution I'll post it

 

[wholmes]

When updating my 4,1 now 5,1 system from HS, the firmware updated and Mojave installed. Now I have no Wifi. It says Wifi No Hardware Installed event though AirPort is installed and worked with HS. Any suggestions?

 

[tsialex]

When updating my 4,1 now 5,1 system from HS, the firmware updated and Mojave installed. Now I have no Wifi. It says Wifi No Hardware Installed event though AirPort is installed and worked with HS. Any suggestions?

Change your AirPort Extreme to one still supported by Mojave, BCM94322MC still is.

Read here: Wifi card not working under Mojave.

 

[macsamuraii]

I'm new here, but thought that some of you might be interested in the below pic. Not Photoshopped. It really is macOS Mojave running with the stock Radeon HD 5770 GPU installed in a mid-2010 Mac Pro 5,1.

 

[tsialex]

It “works” without any acceleration.

 

[woodenbrain]

To troubleshoot, always fully erase your drive

I greatly appreciate your dedication helping everybody in this thread. I'm not about to do that, though. At most I might, out of curiosity, try on a clean test volume. But if I can't get it to install over my existing HS, not worth the time to set up afresh, what with preferences, 3rd party apps and theirs, bash profiles, homebrew, Unix installs, symlinks, and on and on. When the new MacPro finally comes out, that's the time for that.

 

[h9826790]

I'm new here, but thought that some of you might be interested in the below pic. Not Photoshopped. It really is macOS Mojave running with the stock Radeon HD 5770 GPU installed in a mid-2010 Mac Pro 5,1.

View attachment 794442

Yes, we know almost any Mac EFI UGA GPU can boot Mojave and display. However, the installer won’t run with this GPU. They are installed on another system, or with another GPU, then boot with this card.

 

[norda72]

My Boot ROM-version is 138.0.0.0.0. Don’t I have to do this then? Can I format the SSD and reinstall Mojave if I need to? Why shouldn’t you upgrade to Mojave if you have non-retina screen? I have 4K-screen from HP.

 

[tsialex]

My Boot ROM-version is 138.0.0.0.0. Don’t I have to do this then?

No.

Can I format the SSD and reinstall Mojave if I need to?

Yes.

Why shouldn’t you upgrade to Mojave if you have non-retina screen? I have 4K-screen from HP.

You can't use efiflasher from High Sierra, the EFI one, with a 4K screen with most of the GPUs, old bug.

 

[Igorexxa]

Asus RX 480 work nice.

 

[Coyote2006]

Sadly, my good old MacPro 4,1/5,1 "died" this weekend. So no Mojave for him anymore ...

 

[tsialex]

Sadly, my good old MacPro 4,1/5,1 "died" this weekend. So no Mojave for him anymore ...

Did you found what happened?

 

[leadfeet]

I installed Mojave as per the first post of this thread, on a MacPro 5,1 6 core, up to 138.0.0.0 firmware. I have a new Saphire Pulse RX580 8G, in Slot 2. Slot 1 is a PCIe Velocity Duo X2 with 1 SSD installed, the boot drive. Slot 4 is a USB 3.0 card. Various other SSD's and spinners installed in the drive bays.

Mojave boots off the PCIe card SSD fine. When connected to a non-4K monitor via HDMI, all is well. Any connection via DisplayPort from the RX580 to a Dell P2715Q 4K display, the screen "tears" horizontally (ie left to right), and is unusable, and even puts the 4K monitor to sleep intermittantly. Unplugging the P2715Q monitor, cycling power, etc, does not fix the problem. It's almost like the horizontal sync signals is jittery, ie a hardware problem.

I rolled back to High Sierra, and everything is completely stable.

I could play the hardware shuffle game, remove all other PCIe cards, put the RX580 in slot 1, etc. Any suggestions or pointers would be welcome.

 

[h9826790]

I installed Mojave as per the first post of this thread, on a MacPro 5,1 6 core, up to 138.0.0.0 firmware. I have a new Saphire Pulse RX580 8G, in Slot 2. Slot 1 is a PCIe Velocity Duo X2 with 1 SSD installed, the boot drive. Slot 4 is a USB 3.0 card. Various other SSD's and spinners installed in the drive bays.

Mojave boots off the PCIe card SSD fine. When connected to a non-4K monitor via HDMI, all is well. Any connection via DisplayPort from the RX580 to a Dell P2715Q 4K display, the screen "tears" horizontally (ie left to right), and is unusable, and even puts the 4K monitor to sleep intermittantly. Unplugging the P2715Q monitor, cycling power, etc, does not fix the problem. It's almost like the horizontal sync signals is jittery, ie a hardware problem.

I rolled back to High Sierra, and everything is completely stable.

I could play the hardware shuffle game, remove all other PCIe cards, put the RX580 in slot 1, etc. Any suggestions or pointers would be welcome.

May be completely irrelevant, but you may try this “fix”

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...x580-pulse-into-the-mac-edition-card.2101909/

 

[nbwallace]

Thanks for this guide. I successfully upgraded to Mojave this weekend. I have the weird Dell branded RX480/580 and it seems to work fine. I am not sure what level of hardware acceleration I'm getting.

 

[leadfeet]

May be completely irrelevant, but you may try this “fix”

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...x580-pulse-into-the-mac-edition-card.2101909/

Thanks for your prompt reply. In "about this mac", my graphics card comes up as: "Radeon RX 580 8192 MB"
so I think it's being identified correctly. Same in Mojave.. Luckily, 138.0.0.0.0 seems to be completely compatible with High Sierra. The RX580 "link speed" changed from 2.5 GT/s to 5.0 GT/s, under the PCI info.

 

[h9826790]

Thanks for your prompt reply. In "about this mac", my graphics card comes up as: "Radeon RX 580 8192 MB"
so I think it's being identified correctly. Same in Mojave.. Luckily, 138.0.0.0.0 seems to be completely compatible with High Sierra. The RX580 "link speed" changed from 2.5 GT/s to 5.0 GT/s, under the PCI info.

It’s about the Orinoco Framebuffer, not the ident (in High Sierra or later)

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mac-edition-card.2101909/page-4#post-26376509

 

[leadfeet]

It’s about the Orinoco Framebuffer, not the ident (in High Sierra or later)

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mac-edition-card.2101909/page-4#post-26376509

Thank you. I saw that you filed a bug report with Apple regarding the Orinoco Framebuffer. My RX580 comes up with "ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer" instead of the Orinoco Framebuffer. That might explain the problem I'm having. I'll wait to see if Apple fixes it in future versions of Mojave.

 

[bookemdano]

Thank you. I saw that you filed a bug report with Apple regarding the Orinoco Framebuffer. My RX580 comes up with "ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer" instead of the Orinoco Framebuffer. That might explain the problem I'm having. I'll wait to see if Apple fixes it in future versions of Mojave.

I'm booting from a SATA SSD in Drive Bay 1, but otherwise I have the same GPU and monitor as you and have had absolutely no problems booting Mojave or HS with the 4K DP connection.

Have you already tried running Mojave from the native SATA2 connection to see if the problem still exists? Maybe try the Velocity Duo in Slot 3 or 4 instead of Slot 1?

Edit: and for the record I have the same "ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer" as do many other posters here. So far there is no proven benefit to using Orinoco that I am aware of.

 

[tsialex]

I'm booting from a SATA SSD in Drive Bay 1, but otherwise I have the same GPU and monitor as you and have had absolutely no problems booting Mojave or HS with the 4K DP connection.

Have you already tried running Mojave from the native SATA2 connection to see if the problem still exists? Maybe try the Velocity Duo in Slot 3 or 4 instead of Slot 1?

Sapphire Pulse has a lot of part numbers, just two have Orinoco frame buffer support.

 

[bookemdano]

Sapphire Pulse has a lot of part numbers, just two have Orinoco frame buffer support.

I edited to add that I also use generic framebuffer and zero problems. I'm not aware that anyone has found any actual benefit to the Orinoco Framebuffer yet.

 

[leadfeet]

I'm booting from a SATA SSD in Drive Bay 1, but otherwise I have the same GPU and monitor as you and have had absolutely no problems booting Mojave or HS with the 4K DP connection.

Have you already tried running Mojave from the native SATA2 connection to see if the problem still exists? Maybe try the Velocity Duo in Slot 3 or 4 instead of Slot 1?

Edit: and for the record I have the same "ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer" as do many other posters here. So far there is no proven benefit to using Orinoco that I am aware of.

That's reassuring, you and others have the same monitor and display board, and Mojave works fine. That means the problem is with my specific MacPro. Puzzling, High Sierra is rock solid - the only difference is Mojave (and 138.0.0.0.0 firmware).

Thank you for the tip. I'll try moving the PCIe SSD disk to a drive bay, and put the Saphire RX580 in slot 1, and will post back here - may take a few days..

 

[h9826790]

Thank you. I saw that you filed a bug report with Apple regarding the Orinoco Framebuffer. My RX580 comes up with "ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer" instead of the Orinoco Framebuffer. That might explain the problem I'm having. I'll wait to see if Apple fixes it in future versions of Mojave.

They officially replied me that’s the expected behaviour and then closed that bug report. So, I don’t think they will fix it in short future.
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for the record I have the same "ATY,AMD,RadeonFramebuffer" as do many other posters here. So far there is no proven benefit to using Orinoco that I am aware of.

Except this one

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mac-edition-card.2101909/page-6#post-26603327

 

[bookemdano]

They officially replied me that’s the expected behaviour and then closed that bug report. So, I don’t think they will fix it in short future.
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Except this one

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mac-edition-card.2101909/page-6#post-26603327

In fairness, I think that was just one user, and he used a Nitro, not a Pulse. I think probably most cMP users with the 580 are using the generic framebuffer and no consistent reports of problems related to it.