Dousi Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Hello everybody I've been using Unraid as my homeserver for about a year now and have been very happy with it. but, as I started on very low end Hardware, I'm looking into upgrading the Server hardware. the easyest and most economical way for me to do so ist to use my Mac pro 3.1 as the Server. it has dual quadcore Xeons with 3ghz and 32GB of ecc RAM. The only problem I have is that I'm not able to boot to unraid. I installed refind on it and with this I can boot to Ubuntu and such, but Unraid won't boot. it just shows the blinking cursor in the top left corner and does not do anything. Is there anybody who could give me a tip how this could be resolved? I'm not a Software guy, so sorry if this seems to be a dumb question. Thanks for your help in advance and best Regards Dousi Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 are you positive you created the usb boot disk properly? Quote Link to comment
Dousi Posted April 1, 2017 Author Share Posted April 1, 2017 I made it as described in the wiki on a Windows PC and on my Mac, and the same way as the Ubuntu, wich does boot. How would you recommend me to make it bootable? Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Just curious if you can try it on another machine to verify it works. Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Mac's don't boot like PC's, you'll need to look into a boot loader like clover to modify the unRAID flash drive to get it to work, if that's even possible. You can't be the first person to try this though, so perhaps someone who has already succeeded at doing this can chime in so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Quote Link to comment
Dousi Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 10 hours ago, 1812 said: Just curious if you can try it on another machine to verify it works. I tried that and it does work. I also tried the stick I'm using in my server currently and it did not work, but works now on the old hardware again. 8 hours ago, ashman70 said: Mac's don't boot like PC's, you'll need to look into a boot loader like clover to modify the unRAID flash drive to get it to work, if that's even possible. You can't be the first person to try this though, so perhaps someone who has already succeeded at doing this can chime in so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I'll check that out to see if I can find something. thank you! Quote Link to comment
methanoid Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Did you solve this at all? I'm very interested as I have a particular need to be able to boot unRAID via EFI so if rEFInd works I'd love to know Quote Link to comment
Dousi Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 On 11.4.2017 at 2:00 PM, methanoid said: Did you solve this at all? I'm very interested as I have a particular need to be able to boot unRAID via EFI so if rEFInd works I'd love to know I haven't managed to get it booting using refind, but havent tried clover yet. as I do not have lots of time, maybe you want to try this route? Quote Link to comment
methanoid Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 When I get my system working sure but it's broken right now :-(Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
byographic Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 I'm also interested in this topic, has anyone found a solution yet? Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 may work with efi unraid booting in 6.4 release Quote Link to comment
TieDyeGeek Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Hey, I'm trying to get this to work on my Mac Pro 1,1. I can't even get it to see the flash drive on boot. Did anyone have any luck? Quote Link to comment
obliverationizer Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 cMP 4,1->5,1 and I get a kernel panic on fresh USB creation. works fine on my PC though so I dunno.. Quote Link to comment
madwyn Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 On 1/15/2019 at 3:49 AM, TieDyeGeek said: Hey, I'm trying to get this to work on my Mac Pro 1,1. I can't even get it to see the flash drive on boot. Did anyone have any luck? Reading other posts, it seems you need another boot loader (Plot Bootloader) resides in a CD to load unraid from USB. Quote Link to comment
madwyn Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 16 hours ago, obliverationizer said: cMP 4,1->5,1 and I get a kernel panic on fresh USB creation. works fine on my PC though so I dunno.. The same here, I followed other threads including Mac Mini 2009, it seems none of these can boot unraid. Quote Link to comment
pipdango Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Is there a cutoff on what Mac hardware can boot Unraid? I've been trying to boot an 2008 iMac and a 2014 MacBook Pro with both rEFInd and Clover with no success. I can't recreate it on my hardware, but @SpaceInvaderOne was able to do it here with no issues: Quote Link to comment
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