I'm still trying to get Linux installed on to this MacPro
Sun Sep 17 2023
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This is part two in my Mac Pro 2,1 series as we try to get Linux on this so that we can extend the life of this fantastic piece of kit.
They’ve aged well, like most Apple hardware, it’s a good looking thing.
The guts of the machine aren’t much by todays standards, but back in the day, it was something special. Today it still has a lot to offer, especially to the casual computer user, there is however a big challenge with these first generation Mac Pro’s, they have something called an EFI, which is like a BIOS from the legacy PC days, but what they’ve smashed inside the Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1 was not an industry agreed standard, as such, it’s a bit unusual.
At this stage, we’re trying to get Linux up and running on our old Mac Pro 2,1 but it is resisting, it’s making us work for this!