With it, i could start Haiku from VirtualCD drive on my cMP 4,1 (2x Xeon X5680 (hexacore) + 82Go RAM)
Does sound card work on your macpro 4.1?
Is the file still available? It looks like the link was deleted
Has anyone had any luck with a Mac Pro? I just acquired a 1,1 for more or less nothing. Interested to see if it can boot at least the 32bit version. EFI on it is 32bit I believe. Does the 32bit EFI boot loader boot 64bit Haiku?
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Hello humungus,
did you manage to get haiku running on your 2015 iMac?
I have a late 2010, which is working quite well and a 2017, which works, too, but could not get it working on 2015
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Hey. No, i didnt. So i bought a PC dedicated to Haiku. Recommended !
I can’t get a usb boot drive to show up on a 5,1 (2010)
You tried legacy BIOS option in rEFInd or RefindPlus, right? Did it get you to the screen with the boot icons?
In regular EFI mode can you get to the boot loader menu by hitting Spacebar several times? If so, can you try disabling the following: X2APIC, local APIC, IO-APIC (one by one, and all together). If nothing helps try with all the “Disable …” options selected.
So I’ll give instilling 32bit a go next week. The best part of this Mac Pro is how easy it is to swap drives. I have 32bit on a spinning disk from a netbook so I will probably use that drive.
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If you can’t get the installer to boot with the Mac’s bootpicker, try installing on netbook first, then moving drive,
Look into this, and this. More specifically, at platform_loaders commentary, and the potential need for boot camp. (Or try an ESP bless tool.)
Various things you can try, but hopefully it just works.
It is already installed on the netbook which is why it would be easy to use. I think WiFI is supported too. I forget which card it has. I guess the WIFI is missing from the MacPro as it boots El Capitan at the moment.
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I have a Laptop (Thinkpad T460s) and an iMac 2010 for Haiku, but i would still like it to work on the iMac 2015 (27")
@ubu have you tried booting via BIOS legacy option in rEFInd? And the Haiku boot loader options? It’s difficult to suggest you something if you don’t provide more information on what you’ve tried, and what was the outcome.
32bit RFI is really painful. Does any version of 64bit Haiku boot from either 32bit EFI or legacy BIOS? Windows was extremely painful to get installed because it seemed like it never writes the boot sector or makes the partition active in legacy mode. I had to manually do that.
I can live with 32bit Haiku, but seems silly to install 32bit on a quad core. Is rEFInd the magic bullet?
Haiku on Mac does depend on correctly initialised haiku partition signature, back in 2016 when I first tried to get it going I struggled due to incorrect Be file system signature created by paritioning tools, once I got that resolved (used a successor to gparted to write BeFS signature, I dont remember what it was called but you can browse the forum archieves), then I never had any issues with Haiku again on my MBP 11.3 (2014). This was over 8 years ago, you will have to dig through the forum posts I made back then to figure out exactly what I had to fix to get Haiku to just work when installing natively. Booting from external USB storage media always worked on MBP.
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I just got some very old HREV I had burned to boot on my Mac Pro. 32bit. It is snappy. 64bit boots to a “pick which of these to use” menu which hangs.
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Okay, I got beta 4 32bit installed and it runs great. I will update it to beta 5. Only needed the failsafe graphics mode to boot. The installer worked (and I think it booted with 32bit EFI though I installed as a legacy Intel map as I know this would cause the least hassle.
I will try 64bit next. But as the MacPro 1.1 is 32bit EFI, will need to see if it even boots. I guess I will use rEFInd as the boot loader.