March 17, 201610 yr Has anyone gotten unRAID to work on a Mac Pro? It is the only machine I have available for my server and would really like to get it to work.
March 17, 201610 yr Author Why not just try it with a trial key? I've tried to boot the USB and it just fails to recognize it as a bootable device.
March 17, 201610 yr Author Which generation of Mac Pro? Either a Mac Pro 1,1 or 3,1. I'd prefer to use the 1,1.
March 17, 201610 yr Community Expert Why not just try it with a trial key? I've tried to boot the USB and it just fails to recognize it as a bootable device. Have you tried to boot the USB in a computer that can run Windows? Are you trying ver 5 (32bit) or ver 6 (64bit)? Some older Hardware will not run 64bit software.
March 17, 201610 yr You should be able to boot to a USB, I believe folks with older Mac Pro's had created bootable USB's that booted Clover, but that was a few years back. Are you booting from a front or rear USB port? Try the rear ones if only using the front.
March 26, 201610 yr Author You should be able to boot to a USB, I believe folks with older Mac Pro's had created bootable USB's that booted Clover, but that was a few years back. Are you booting from a front or rear USB port? Try the rear ones if only using the front. I have tried the rear usb ports as well. Why not just try it with a trial key? I've tried to boot the USB and it just fails to recognize it as a bootable device. Have you tried to boot the USB in a computer that can run Windows? Are you trying ver 5 (32bit) or ver 6 (64bit)? Some older Hardware will not run 64bit software. I currently do not have access to my windows machines. I'm attempting to use ver 6(64bit). The mac pro 3,1 is a full 64bit machine.
March 26, 201610 yr Author Have you tried to choose startup disk? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204417 Yes, it doesn't show up there. Do you know anything about Mac's or are you just making random guesses?
March 26, 201610 yr Have you tried to choose startup disk? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204417 Yes, it doesn't show up there. Do you know anything about Mac's or are you just making random guesses? Random guesses I think the problem has something to do with using fat32, it looks like mac only support booting when the disk is formatted with a GUID partition type. From here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201663 Linux on usb, they dont use fat32: http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-drive-for-mac-in-os-x--cms-21253 Maybe you can "hack" it with something, so you boot of soemthing else, that boot from the unraid usb. Like plop: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html If that dosent work, I am out of suggestions. Maybe someone else can step in.
March 26, 201610 yr Author Have you tried to choose startup disk? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204417 Yes, it doesn't show up there. Do you know anything about Mac's or are you just making random guesses? Random guesses I think the problem has something to do with using fat32, it looks like mac only support booting when the disk is formatted with a GUID partition type. From here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201663 Linux on usb, they dont use fat32: http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-drive-for-mac-in-os-x--cms-21253 Maybe you can "hack" it with something, so you boot of soemthing else, that boot from the unraid usb. Like plop: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html If that dosent work, I am out of suggestions. Maybe someone else can step in. You may have just reminded me of something I used todo for linux by using GRUB to boot past the 4th partition. This is on a USB stick which will make it a bit different though.... I wonder what it'd take for them to add support for the mac boot setup as I've never had a problem getting a linux disto to work till now.
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