Items needed:
VMWare ESXi 6.0 installer
VMWare Fusion or player
ESXi 5.0 boot files macpro efi boot files.zip
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Create VM in VMWare fusion building to USB attached internal drive.
*Be sure to chose USB drive in the setup
The build shouldn’t take but a couple of minutes.
Once complete mount the /boot partition on your mac
“diskutil list” and figure out what disk is your ESXi
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/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk6
1: EFI ESXi 4.2 MB disk6s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data 262.1 MB disk6s5
3: Microsoft Basic Data 262.1 MB disk6s6
4: 9D275380-40AD-11DB-BF97-000C2911D1B8 115.3 MB disk6s7
5: Microsoft Basic Data 299.9 MB disk6s8
6: 9D275380-40AD-11DB-BF97-000C2911D1B8 2.7 GB disk6s9
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Type “diskutil mount /dev/disk6s1” or whatever disk is yours
once mounted open and replace the following files with the files from the link above
/Volumes/EFI/BOOT/BOOTIA32.EFI
/Volumes/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI
/Volumes/EFI/VMware/mboot32.efi
/Volumes/EFI/VMware/mboot64.efi
back to the terminal and type “diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk6” where it is your disk not the partition
Unplug and install in your ancient MacPro 1,1 (yes this says 2,1 but it is really a 2006 1,1) just like my early 2009 Mac Pro is a 6-core 3.33 GHz 🙂
Enjoy