Target disk mode & Lion questions

Hello,

I don't think that Firewire target mode will help you, but you risk nothing by trying it.

If you can get your hands on a 10.6.x system disk (DVD or hard drive), you could boot your MP in Snow Leopard and make the firmware update.

If you think you're up to it, you could even remove the drive from your mini, put it in your Mac Pro (or a usb external enclosure) and boot your Mac Pro with it just to make this update.

Loa

P.S. I assume you made sure that the PCIe card is itself compatible with Lion, once updated to 1.03?

 

I'm not sure if you can do that.

I recently reformatted a new mp with lion preinstalled to 10.6.8 by connecting it to my Mbp and using 'restore' or something. - thnk I wiped the mo drive and reformat - you could just clone you mp boot drive (or back up important. Suff) and install 10.6.7 on it and forget about lion

 

Hello,

2010 Mac Pros can boot using 10.6.4 or later, but not with 10.6.0 to 10.6.3. It's a simple fact that this was the OS that came with them at original launch.

Using your Mac mini's hard drive will not ruin it... As long as it runs 10.6.4 or later, you simply have to remove the drive, use it in the MP, then put it back in. In any case, don't you have back-ups if things get messy?

Finally, I can't find any info that suggests that PCIe cards are accessible through FWTM. Let us know if it works.

Loa

 

I think you may have it reversed. Why not boot the mini in Target Disk Mode and then boot your Mac Pro off of it? Holding down the option key should see the 10.6 just fine. You would then have full access to the Pro's resources.

 

Hello,

Good idea, should work.

Never heard of anything like this, and know of a couple of guys who bought a 2010 with Lion and reverted to 10.6.8 as they hate Lion.

Loa

 

Did they format the drive before trying to reinstall Snow Leopard ? I doubt the installer will let you do this if Lion is already installed, but if the drive has been wiped beforehand then I don't see why it wouldn't work unless the machine specifically needs drivers only delivered with Lion.

 

As stated in my previous post, I connected my MacBook pro (10.6.5) to my new mp (which after upgrading to 10.7.2, decided to go back to 10.6.8) and went into TDM and just erased / restored the mp drive and chose 'restore from time machine backup' then upgraded to 10.6.8

It's possible and pretty easy to do- the only neg is it states 'my name's MacBook pro' though I can live with that!

 

Hello,

I really don't know why you can't revert to 10.6.8. Many ppl have done it, including steveOooo which bought his with Lion pre-installed: it's just a matter of reformatting the drive (to remove the hidden recovery partition) and re-installing a 10.6.4+ OS. Of course, if you or your friends tried to do it with original 10.6 disks, it won't work. You need a 10.6.8 drive or a more recent 10.6 install disk.

You can change that in the System Preferences -> Sharing options.

Loa