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Will not boot past [PCI configurtion begin] (in verbose mode)
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Yes, your MacPro1,1 is simply too old for the internet recovery. Yes, it certainly supports Lion, but internet recovery is still too new for that model Mac.
Yes, that would work - Put the SSD in an external 2.5 enclosure. The Mac mini would need to be able to boot to Snow Leopard to install that on the SSD. (Mini would need to be between 2006 and 2009 - MacMini1,1 to 3,1. A 4,1 would be too new to boot from Apple's commercial Snow Leopard installer, and newer minis don't support Snow Leopard at all.
Well, my brother has a Mac mini alright… just not that old. I did however use his mac to erase the ssd and set it up for the older format. Hopefully that will do something. Not that sure that it will.
I do appreciate you letting me know the information about the older macs though. It does answer the questions I have. I guess the only other questions I have are two. First is there anyway outside of what we just covered to make this work, and do you think it’s foolish being that it is so old?
My reasoning was that if I could get it working, my wife would be more inclined to purchase a new Mac. She is a photographer. She doesn’t want to buy a new Mac because of cost. I just figured that an old Mac would at least show her the capability. This Mac Pro still can run windows 10! The gateway that hard drive came out of is already toasted and it was NEWER.
Meanwhile thank you again for your time. Have a great weekend.
You said that you purchased your Snow Leopard installer on eBay.
Your screen shot in post #32 shows that you are booting to "Darwin kernel version 10.7.3", which relates to OS X version 10.6.7.
That means that you purchased an installer DVD that shipped with another Mac (either an early 2011 MacBook Pro, or a mid 2011 iMac ). Your eBay seller perhaps did not know that was a special build, made to support "new" hardware on only those 2011 Macs, and the installer will not install on any other Mac.
That's why you can't get it to boot your Mac Pro. It's completely wrong for your 2006 Mac Pro.
Something to keep in mind if you really want to go with Snow Leopard -- Apple never released a commercial Snow Leopard installer newer than version 10.6.3, which is what you would look for.
If you have no other options, you could purchase an OS X bootable USB installer, example here:
Your screen shot in post #32 shows that you are booting to "Darwin kernel version 10.7.3", which relates to OS X version 10.6.7.
That means that you purchased an installer DVD that shipped with another Mac (either an early 2011 MacBook Pro, or a mid 2011 iMac ). Your eBay seller perhaps did not know that was a special build, made to support "new" hardware on only those 2011 Macs, and the installer will not install on any other Mac.
That's why you can't get it to boot your Mac Pro. It's completely wrong for your 2006 Mac Pro.
Something to keep in mind if you really want to go with Snow Leopard -- Apple never released a commercial Snow Leopard installer newer than version 10.6.3, which is what you would look for.
If you have no other options, you could purchase an OS X bootable USB installer, example here:
Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Operating System Boot Install Disk USB 16GB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Operating System Boot Install Disk USB 16GB
smile.amazon.com
To be fair a little pride at this point is about what keeps me trying to make this happen. My first mistake was trying to work with Apple.com and purchase the OS Lion from Apple. I don’t know what I was thinking… all I ended up with was the rights to download Lion from the AppStore. No refund, no help getting even this far. Snow leopard is what I figured would be the way to go to then load Lion onto the Mac Pro. Unless you know a way to get Lion off the AppStore using an iPad Pro, that was the only reason why I went on the route I have.You said that you purchased your Snow Leopard installer on eBay.
Your screen shot in post #32 shows that you are booting to "Darwin kernel version 10.7.3", which relates to OS X version 10.6.7.
That means that you purchased an installer DVD that shipped with another Mac (either an early 2011 MacBook Pro, or a mid 2011 iMac ). Your eBay seller perhaps did not know that was a special build, made to support "new" hardware on only those 2011 Macs, and the installer will not install on any other Mac.
That's why you can't get it to boot your Mac Pro. It's completely wrong for your 2006 Mac Pro.
Something to keep in mind if you really want to go with Snow Leopard -- Apple never released a commercial Snow Leopard installer newer than version 10.6.3, which is what you would look for.
If you have no other options, you could purchase an OS X bootable USB installer, example here:
Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Operating System Boot Install Disk USB 16GB
Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Operating System Boot Install Disk USB 16GBsmile.amazon.com
The full installer for Lion is now a free download from Apple support, if you still want it.
Apple started offering that download in June 2021
support.apple.com
Apple started offering that download in June 2021
Mac OS X Lion Installer - Apple Support
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is available for older systems that are not compatible with the latest version of macOS
