Looking for suggestions about regaining full control of some Mac Pro 1,1s--
I jumped into a situation by purchasing some MacPro 1.1s that came out of a school district that were networked and locked down.
The machines try to boot to a network (spinning globe) until they time out, they then find the boot volume and get to desktop. On the untouched machines, the boot keyboard commands are also locked--the only thing that you can get to is the Recovery Partition (which also may be locked down--at least root privileges do not seem to be available). They also seem to be set for persistent power on--plug them in, and they will fire up--this is what we used to do with networked boxes BITD, but I have no idea how such things are controlled in the Mac world
Oddly, even with a fresh install on a bare hard drive I see the same behavior--spinning globe. I did think boot password, but no box appears, and if you check it from the Recovery partition it says No Boot Password Installed.
OS installed is 10.7.5--but I can't reinstall without purchasing as I found out.
I am a Mac newb, so I really have no idea how privileges are set in the networked Mac world, and/or if such controls persist on the machine (?EFI) side if a fresh install is done.
These machines look like they were imaged--and the only oddity that I spotted in list of software was Mac EFI update 1.8, which is supposedly for iMac: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1493?locale=en_US
but this may have been part of a standard load that would fail on a particular machine.
I jumped into a situation by purchasing some MacPro 1.1s that came out of a school district that were networked and locked down.
The machines try to boot to a network (spinning globe) until they time out, they then find the boot volume and get to desktop. On the untouched machines, the boot keyboard commands are also locked--the only thing that you can get to is the Recovery Partition (which also may be locked down--at least root privileges do not seem to be available). They also seem to be set for persistent power on--plug them in, and they will fire up--this is what we used to do with networked boxes BITD, but I have no idea how such things are controlled in the Mac world
Oddly, even with a fresh install on a bare hard drive I see the same behavior--spinning globe. I did think boot password, but no box appears, and if you check it from the Recovery partition it says No Boot Password Installed.
OS installed is 10.7.5--but I can't reinstall without purchasing as I found out.
I am a Mac newb, so I really have no idea how privileges are set in the networked Mac world, and/or if such controls persist on the machine (?EFI) side if a fresh install is done.
These machines look like they were imaged--and the only oddity that I spotted in list of software was Mac EFI update 1.8, which is supposedly for iMac: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1493?locale=en_US
but this may have been part of a standard load that would fail on a particular machine.