[Guide] Installing 10.9 Mavericks on older Macs. -HackerWayne

[batmanofzurenar]

Who wants to try out my OS X 10.9 DP on Mac Pro 1,1 guide? BE MY GUINEA PIG!!!! or not... your choice XD

http://wp.me/p1NdqU-7

Took me 14 hours straight to write and put together. That's right 14 hours non-stop folks... well anyways, if somethings not working or if I made any mistakes just leave a comment and I'll check it out and fix it.

Don't forget to thank Jabbawok & netkas for their hard work!

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GROWL** I'M BATMANOFZURENARH! FEAR ME!

 

[mwhities]

Who wants to try out my OS X 10.9 DP on Mac Pro 1,1 guide? BE MY GUINEA PIG!!!! or not... your choice XD

http://wp.me/p1NdqU-7

Took me 14 hours straight to write and put together. That's right 14 hours non-stop folks... well anyways, if somethings not working or if I made any mistakes just leave a comment and I'll check it out and fix it.

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GROWL** I'M BATMANOFZURENARH! FEAR ME!

I'll try it this week. Had you posted this a few hours ago, I'd tried it.

 

[batmanofzurenar]

I'll try it this week. Had you posted this a few hours ago, I'd tried it.

lol just finished it like an hour ago

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Who wants to try out my OS X 10.9 DP on Mac Pro 1,1 guide? BE MY GUINEA PIG!!!! or not... your choice XD

Many thanks for your efforts. I wouldn't mind creating a Mavericks Fusion VM from scratch. I suppose your guide can be adapted to create a Mavericks Install DMG that might be used for creating a virtual machine. I tried doing so twice last week, but did not succeed. The only thing I saw was the Apple logo, the spinning wheel and, finally, a crossed-circle forbidden sign. Do you have any pointers as to how to create such a DMG installer?

 

[Peloche]

Who wants to try out my OS X 10.9 DP on Mac Pro 1,1 guide? BE MY GUINEA PIG!!!! or not... your choice XD

http://wp.me/p1NdqU-7

Took me 14 hours straight to write and put together. That's right 14 hours non-stop folks... well anyways, if somethings not working or if I made any mistakes just leave a comment and I'll check it out and fix it.

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GROWL** I'M BATMANOFZURENARH! FEAR ME!

Hi BATMANOFZURENARH,

Thanks for your guide

For me within point 4):

4) Next we will need to bless the boot partition (Startup Disk).
In terminal run

sudo bless –folder /Volumes/BOOT –file /Volumes/BOOT/boot –setBoot –legacy

should be changed with:

sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/ -file /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/boot –setStartup\ Disk -legacy

What do you think ?

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Hi BATMANOFZURENARH,

Thanks for your guide

For me within point 4):

4) Next we will need to bless the boot partition (Startup Disk).
In terminal run

sudo bless –folder /Volumes/BOOT –file /Volumes/BOOT/boot –setBoot –legacy

should be changed with:

sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/ -file /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/boot –setStartup\ Disk -legacy

What do you think ?

lol I'll fix that. Thanks XD

 

[JacquesL]

lol I'll fix that. Thanks XD

Looks like there was one search/replace too many.
The actual syntax should be


sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/ -file /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/boot –setBoot -legacy

the "Boot" in -setBoot should not be replaced with "Startup Disk"

 

[Peloche]

Looks like there was one search/replace too many.
The actual syntax should be


sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/ -file /Volumes/Startup\ Disk/boot –setBoot -legacy

the "Boot" in -setBoot should not be replaced with "Startup Disk"

Hi Jacques,

You could be right but i made it as i mentionned and it worked, original is at netkas site by MacEFIRom and it was :

sudo bless --folder /Volumes/Boot --file /Volumes/Boot/boot --setBoot --legacy

Boot with a B was the name of the partition to bless it's why i replaced it with the partition name.

Did you try it as you wrote it ?

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lol I'll fix that. Thanks XD

No worries it works well, i was one of the guinea pig and Mavericks works now on my MacPro 2006 and on my Hack .

Congrats for your work batmanofzurenar!

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Hi Jacques,

You could be right but i made it as i mentionned and it worked, original is at netkas site by MacEFIRom and it was :

sudo bless --folder /Volumes/Boot --file /Volumes/Boot/boot --setBoot --legacy

Boot with a B was the name of the partition to bless it's why i replaced it with the partition name.

Did you try it as you wrote it ?

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No worries it works well, i was one of the guinea pig and Mavericks works now on my MacPro 2006 and on my Hack .

Congrats for your work batmanofzurenar!

Glad I was able to help -- So you can confirm that everything's working out of the box?

 

[Peloche]

Glad I was able to help -- So you can confirm that everything's working out of the box?

Yeap but only what i've been able to test... up to now.

I hope that Jacques will light us about setBoot to be sure for others.

 

[hackerwayne]

Mavericks on Mac Pro 1,1 without Chameleon 64-bit. Modified boot.efi and Mach_Kernel. Test is going on now. So far no iMessage, FaceTime or iCloud due to NVRAM incompatibility. Will try to get that sorted

 

[Peloche]

Mavericks on Mac Pro 1,1 without Chameleon 64-bit. Modified boot.efi and Mach_Kernel. Test is going on now. So far no iMessage, FaceTime or iCloud due to NVRAM incompatibility. Will try to get that sorted

Hi hackerwayne,

Ooops this could be the best , good luck

 

[Peloche]

@batmanofzurenar,

I read again your guide up to the end, i saw your mods for blessing, but your credit :

All credit is due to the incredible Jabbawok, netkas, and (some guy who’s name escapes me from the insanelymac forum)

is missing someone who started all ML story for Mac Pro 1.1, whithout him we may won't be able to install ML and up, his Netkas forum user name is MacEFIRom, http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html , thanks a lot to him.

 

[mwhities]

Mavericks on Mac Pro 1,1 without Chameleon 64-bit. Modified boot.efi and Mach_Kernel. Test is going on now. So far no iMessage, FaceTime or iCloud due to NVRAM incompatibility. Will try to get that sorted

This would be great. Please post up when you can.

 

[MEKAO]

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we'll be downloading it first hand and get it tested out - from hackerwayne & mlforall (mlpostfactor)

what we know so far.

- won't work with anything that doesn't run mountain lion.
- efi64 only, just like 10.8.
- 64-bit support for older macs (that currently runs mlpfv0.3) is not going to be easy as many things has changed.

Success!!! Maverick on old 2006 imac!! Pics up later.

Got it working on x3100 based macbooks too. Tons of issues. Bugs and glitches everywhere and graphics doesn't quite work yet. Its gonna be like how mlpf started at first. So be patient.

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[MEKAO]

Can you give me an installation tutorial you figure demonstrates and explains？

We'll be downloading it first hand and get it tested out - From HackerWayne & MLForAll (MLPostFactor)

What we know so far.

- Won't work with anything that doesn't run Mountain Lion.
- EFI64 only, just like 10.8.
- 64-bit support for older Macs (that currently runs MLPFv0.3) is not going to be easy as many things has changed.

SUCCESS!!! Maverick on old 2006 iMac!! Pics up later.

Got it working on X3100 based MacBooks too. Tons of issues. Bugs and glitches everywhere and graphics doesn't quite work yet. Its gonna be like how MLPF started at first. So be patient.

Can you give me an installation tutorial you figure demonstrates and explains？

 

[hackerwayne]

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Are you seriously running MLPF on Mavericks? Obviously that wouldn't work >.<. Ill post it up once i get some stuffs sorted

 

[MEKAO]

That how to install the Mavericks, you give me a tutorial? My English is not very goo

Are you seriously running MLPF on Mavericks? Obviously that wouldn't work >.<. Ill post it up once i get some stuffs sorted

That how to install the Mavericks, you give me a tutorial? My English is not very good

 

[robi62]

@hackerwayne
Which kexts did u use for x3100 Cant seem to get qe/ci with the ones I have

 

[SeenJeen]

Man oh man I would not try to get Mavs to run on a X3100 MacBook.

I think that is, bar none, the worst on-board GPU ever produced. It's much buggier than the 950 that came before it. I hated that MacBook and I was happy when I got rid of it.

It's cool that you can hack anything to work with anything, though! Keep up the good work

 

[IllmasterMath]

Bump for DP2 status

 

[ferreguetti]

On Macbook Air 1,1

As soon as anyone want me to try I can do it, will be looking for updates so I can try it out...

 

[mishendr]

Man oh man I would not try to get Mavs to run on a X3100 MacBook.

I think that is, bar none, the worst on-board GPU ever produced. It's much buggier than the 950 that came before it. I hated that MacBook and I was happy when I got rid of it.

It's cool that you can hack anything to work with anything, though! Keep up the good work

What kind of bugs then? I've been running my X3100 Macbook Late 2007 fine with 10.6, 10.7, and even now with 10.8 MLPF. No issues. I think you had hardware problems.

 

[Spencer993]

Good Luck @HackerWayne!!!!

I really appreciate all the hard work you've put into this so we can get a few more years out of our "computers" THX!!!

 

[bolen]

Who wants to try out my OS X 10.9 DP on Mac Pro 1,1 guide? BE MY GUINEA PIG!!!! or not... your choice XD

http://wp.me/p1NdqU-7

Took me 14 hours straight to write and put together. That's right 14 hours non-stop folks... well anyways, if somethings not working or if I made any mistakes just leave a comment and I'll check it out and fix it.

Don't forget to thank Jabbawok & netkas for their hard work!

Thanks a lot for the write-up, I used your guide as a base for installing Mavericks on my MacMini1,1 (flashed to 2,1).

I had to replace the SMBios en dsdt with the ones for my mini and add the SL 64-bit kext for the Intel GMA 950.

Now I have Mavericks running in 64-bit, albeit a bit slow thanks to the slow 64-bit GMA kexts. I'm planning to use the mini as a server so it's OK for me!

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Still looking forward to a new MavericksPostFactor for getting my other Mini up and runnings on Mavericks with better performance.. but maybe that's wishful thinking.. getting Mavericks to boot in 32-bit!