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Thanks Joe.... sounds like I should just shut off GPU processing on this machine.

Hi, hope you don't mind me asking.... 24 fails in a row for my GPU. I had wondered about blacklist, but it's getting jobs and then failing. Looked it up on the whitelist, and it shows as a "2,2".. so I think that means it should be working? log here, maybe it's obvious, but I can't see it....

I'll start a new thread.
The reason of course is that I've setup some Ubuntu headless servers, to do some work. We went to efforts to enable GPU where they had a decent and recognized one... but under Linux, you lose a CPU thread to have GPU enabled... so...

ok, so on that topic... I have seen the whitelist for GPUs, but is there a list that says "it will never get work, don't enable it"?

Yes Moss, most definitely. (my reel to reel is broken, so I forgot that) NVidia GEForce 7300GT coming up as the GPU, and enabled for Folding. (no work yet, but ready) If you mess with the drivers to get to the GPU, here's a good article to get your video resolution on the console back to normal afte...

Hey.... how about that smart little Linux...

after booting 16 a couple of times, the Grub now has 19 showing in the list, and it boots fine! (found it on it's own)

So, there we go. Ubuntu 19, running on a Mac Pro 1,1

(Mac now requesting both CPU and GPU projects... )

ok, so for the sake of posterity, and anyone else searching... here's the answer. :) it would appear that the EFI in the Mac Pro 1,1 that I have here, is as mentioned, 32bit. None of the iso's of Ubuntu will boot from DVD or otherwise. Except if you use that little bit of code hinted to above, and I...

I gotta get a life...

well, the modified 19.10 installed successfully, however on reboot it wouldn't boot the OS. (just rEFInd) "insert bootable media" after running Linux for a while.

another re-install to try and get it clean, and the ? folder comes up at boot, with nothing to boot...

-snicker-
I think I may have it. Ubuntu live server 19.10-64, installing now... we shall see...

Ok, so here's the solution to the old multi-xeon Mac that got stopped by apple at OSX 10.6.8. As everyone here said, wipe it, install Linux. Easier said than done! So this now becomes a case of... is anyone aware, or, is anyone bored enough to try and help me do it. ;) This Mac, which seems to be 64...

well, this part of the project is going to have to split into another thread...

Exactly!
Why can't they all just get along!!

Let's not even get into the electricity it took to power that monster up and down.
Time for electronic scrap... it's probably worth $50!

HI,
noticed that in the config.xml on the couple of ubuntu machines I have running, even though the name, team, and key have been entered correctly, the "fold-anon" setting is still set to "true".

should I be changing this to false?

ok, so, good excuse to pull any useful files off that old mac, and install Ubuntu 19... got it.
(copying now, 35 mins to go)

It's a 4 processor mac pro, if I remember whart's inside this monster chassis... so we'll see how that goes.