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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

hwojtek said:
You can run anything up to and including El Capitan.
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But not without modifications to the boot loader, right?
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BjarneDa said:
Thanks for the answer yeah there was no mac driver for any GT card atleast not what i found when i switch to "quadro" i found Mac drivers excuse a stupid question but what is the Nvidia Web driver?
Also the the problem is i cant upgrade to a newer OSX as i have a Mac Pro 2.1 thats why i bought this card.
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Web Drivers are drivers from NVIDIA required to use some of their video cards in some versions of MacOS/OS X.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/nvidia-drivers/
http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html

Here's a blog post about their driver for OS X ”Yosemite”: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/08/31/mac-driver/
 
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star-affinity said:
Yes, I know (at least if you know how to do it). :)
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Thanks for the links i could install the drivers now i gonne test if the card works this wekeend.
And i hoping to learn how to boot with a modified boot.efi soon are there any step by step tutorials here?60 plus pages is alot to go thrue so if anyone have a link it would be great
 
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BjarneDa said:
Thanks for the links i could install the drivers now i gonne test if the card works this wekeend.
And i hoping to learn how to boot with a modified boot.efi soon are there any step by step tutorials here?60 plus pages is alot to go thrue so if anyone have a link it would be great
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Yes: 60+ pages is a lot, but you just need to read the first 5, or-so. Nevertheless, you have a great deal of reading ahead of you, my friend :)

Regards, splifingate
 
tiamo said:
there is a homebrew bootloader for OS X 10.9

1. following those steps to make an install drive
http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

2. replace boot.efi
boot.efi can be found at System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi and usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi

3.insert your board-id into OSInstall.mpkg(please google it)

4.insert your board-id into InstallableMachine.plist(please google it)

5.reboot from the usb drive.

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this is a native efi32 bootloader, instead of a CSM loader
it built a thunk between EFI64 and EFI32, forwarding EFI64 call from kernel to EFI32 firmware.
so those programs using EFI runtime services, such as bless, nvram will be run without any problem.

this is a full version bootloader, hibernation, filevault2 are also supported out of box.
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source code: http://code.google.com/p/macosxbootloader/
it is built with visual studio 2013 and nasm
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Is there a fundamentally different boot.efi for Mountain Lion? If so, where do I get? Once I heard, you, yourself Tiamo, was the one who had created it...
[doublepost=1509299330][/doublepost]Of if they are the same, of course I will just use that one.
 
Guess it doesn't necessarily have to be Tiamo himself to confirm this either. Does anyone know if the same boot.efi file for the Mavericks upgrade will also work on a Mountain Lion upgrade? I'm just trying to make sure before I start this process and brick my Mac Pro 1,1.
 
Damn it for some reason i can't use the DVI contact on my GT card there are 4 little pins surrounding the flat stick pin on my contact from the monitor.
But on the graphic card there is no holes for the 4 pins when i used some force it bent one of those pins so i stoped and fixed the bent pin.
Can i use the vga contact instead or even better the hdmi?
 
Your GT is a DVI-D, not DVI-I, it doesn't have the analogue pins (the 4 missing) so VGA output using a simple DVI to VGA converter is not possible. If your card has other outputs like VGA or HDMI, you're OK to go, though. Depending on the card you might or might not have the boot screens. VGA resolution will be limited to 1600x1200, HDMI will theoretically support 2560xSomething.
 
hwojtek said:
Your GT is a DVI-D, not DVI-I, it doesn't have the analogue pins (the 4 missing) so VGA output using a simple DVI to VGA converter is not possible. If your card has other outputs like VGA or HDMI, you're OK to go, though. Depending on the card you might or might not have the boot screens. VGA resolution will be limited to 1600x1200, HDMI will theoretically support 2560xSomething.
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Thanks i will buy a HDMI cable
All that boot screen issue everyone talk about i dont care for so much who wants to look at a boot screen?
I just want,s to be able to upgrade my Mac to a newer OS then Lion.
Which of course should have been a possability without any hacks.
Apple really screwed all those buyer of Mac Pro's in 2006-7 when they sell those models.
They of course did know that the new version would be released very soon.
Exactly like they did with iPad version 1.
 
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Form members,

It has been a while that I was on the form.
My mac pro is still running Mavericks with the bootefi. Works just fine.
Now I like to bring it to El Capitan.
Will the system do an update to El Capitan if I start it and after the install replace the bootefi file like you would do on a new installation and an update with on El Capitan or mavericks?

thanks,

Robert.
 
does anyone know if a Radeon HD5770 (MacPro1,1 w/Mavs) will support 2 mons on a combo of the DVI-I and mDP or both mDPs over 15 foot cables at 1920x1200?
I would also be upgrading the procs to Xeon 5365s.
 
has anyone run GeekBench on a MacPro1,1 upgraded to Mavs with 16G ram and Xeon 5365 3Ghz Quad core and Radeon HD5770?
BareFeats doesn't go that far back nor modded as such.
Trying to compare those numbers with my MBA6,2 2013 (1.7G, i7, 8G ram) and a MacMini7,1 2014 (3G i7, 16G ram)
 
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