I have been following this thread in hopes of gaining brain enough to be able to upgrade my own Mac Pro 1,1. I think it is just a bit beyond me, so will be investing in a 3,1 to run Crapitan instead of being stuck with 10.7.5
clay On Jun 16, 2016, at 6:58 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > As you may recall, I have recently deployed two MacPro 1,1's that > were upgraded to essentially 3,1 status, and which have been > working _beautifully_. > > However, I was getting weird crap with Time Machine, and I finally > figured out that the reason was that both machines have identical > UUID's! (That is NOT good.) I had cloned one SSD for the other, > and I blamed that process. I finally completely reformatted one > and re-installed from scratch, yet the two machines still have > the same UUID, but only when running El Crap from their SSD's. > > Googletubes were useless, the only situations discussed were > VM's that were cloned, and the solutions were only using the > VM tools, which do not apply to bare iron. > > In desperation, since the UUID seems to be tied to the disk and > not the PRAM (and, the disks themselves have different UUID's), > I wrote a C program to search/replace the one UUID with another > fresh one wherever found on the SSD. > > It's running now, and has made 41 substitutions so far at 19GB+ > into the scan. I guess we'll see if this destroys the volume, > or fixes the problem. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
