NO LONGER BEING UPDATED

I've unfortunately gotten rid of my trusty Mac Pro 1,1, and therefore this repo will no longer be updated.

Mac Pro 2006 1,1 El Capitan Upgrades

Upgrades I have completed on the Apple Mac Pro 1,1 in order to get it El Capitan (OS X 10.11) ready along with code, scripts and links to products and utilities.

Install El Capitan from Spare Mac

• Attach the Mac Pro boot drive to a Mac.
• Download El Capitan from the App Store on this Mac.
• Run Disk Utility and wipe the destination drive, making sure to used GUID partition table.
• Run the El Capitan installer and make sure to select the Mac Pro drive.

Prepare the New Drive

• Boot from the new El Capitan drive in restore mode with cmd+R
• Run terminal app
• type csrutil disable; reboot (this reboots the Mac)
• Once booted, download the post-install script
• Run the script to fix permissions on boot.efi
• The script will also Replace CoreServices and /User/boot/32 with the new Boot.efi

Install Nvidia Drivers (If Needed)

You can find the latest version of Nvidia drivers for your specific OS X version here

Migrate the Drive

• Shut down the computer you are using to make the drive
• Insert the El Capitan drive in your Mac Pro 1,1 (2006)
• Boot the Mac
• You will hear it chime twice, this means you've done your job!
• If all goes well, you'll see it boot (if not, make sure you've used GUID partition type - this happened to me :) )
• If you're using a PC graphics card, it might take 2 minutes to boot up to the login screen

Useful Links

• Graphics cards
• List of Natively Supported Cards
• Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1 Updater
• RAM Installation
• RAM from Komputerbay (x2 kits)
• CPU Upgrade Info
• Intel Xeon X5365 LGA 771/Socket J (SLAED) 3 GHz CPU Processor
• eBay Link to Combo Wifi + Bluetooth
• MacVidCards Combo Card