#Mac pro efi firmware update 1.2 install#
#Mac pro efi firmware update 1.2 mac#
#Mac pro efi firmware update 1.2 windows#

I have to waste an internal SATA port JUST for the MBR and bootloader.Ģ. There is 2 negatives to this and neither affect me at all.ġ. How often do you really reboot a NAS anyway? The bootloaders have nothing to do with the system once it's running. I think the amount of time it takes for UNRAID to start loading is about 30 seconds now. I modified MULTIBOOT's menu to skip everything, timeout after 3 seconds and load Plop by default with no keyboard interaction. It sounds complicated, but the boot process literally takes about 40-50 seconds to get to the UNRAID boot.

#Mac pro efi firmware update 1.2 windows#

The downside is that YUMI is a Windows app, but what the hell, right? I took my SSD that I had booting before, wrote the new MBR to the disk with syslinux and MULTIBOOT which then opens Plopbootloader as hidden and loads UNRAID.

#Mac pro efi firmware update 1.2 install#

I found a thread talking about an app called YUMI to install a MULTIBOOT ISO boot manager with syslinux and you can boot any ISO or live ISO of linux and all kinds of operating system. I HATE dealing with Grub and Grub2 and in general, boot loaders are not my thing. Ultimately, I needed a syslinux boot loader to load Plop Bootmanager, which I had already configured to stay hidden and load my USB flash drive directly. I did a ton of reading about Plop Bootloader and the methods of installing it and using it. In his guide, Itamar explained how he used Plop Bootloader to make VMware boot directly of a USB device, which was otherwise, unsupported and impossible. The setup process DID get me thinking of an option though. While I did get it to boot and it worked, it was definitely sluggish because of all the extra processing occurring with Unraid being in a VM. I booted ESXi from a USB flash drive, used the empty space on the flash drive to create a datastore and then configured PCI Passthrough on the 6 port SATA controller AND my USB 3 PCI card. I found this link: Īfter reading through it, I tried that method too. I did read a post from Lime Tech saying that they do not support booting form an internal drive.īeing that I had it working, all but saving my configuration for the next reboot, I went on a mission to find a way to make it work. You HAVE to have the USB flash device to save the configuration to as the system refuses to use the internal SSD after it's booted and the system is loaded into memory. Unraid doesn't support this option for use.

I DID manage to boot the Unraid install from an SSD, connected to an internal SATA port, but.

#Mac pro efi firmware update 1.2 mac#

I was able to take the Unraid flash device and boot my '14 Macbook Pro from it, but the old Mac EFI just won't do it. Both before and after the update, my Mac refused to boot from a MBR configured usb flash stick. I have a Mac Pro 4,1 (early 2009) that I have updated the EFI Firmware to be a 5,1.

I would like to submit my findings on this topic as I came across this thread when I was research the same question.