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1. INSTALL LINUX ON MAC PRO 1.1 EXTERNAL DRIVE INSTALL
2. INSTALL LINUX ON MAC PRO 1.1 EXTERNAL DRIVE DRIVERS

INSTALL LINUX ON MAC PRO 1.1 EXTERNAL DRIVE DRIVERS

Once Windows 10 was fully installed I manually ran the Bootcamp/Setup.exe on the D: disk (my USB stick) which seems to have installed the rest of the drivers (Wireless driver for WiFi, correct display driver, sound driver, chipset etc). My bluetooth keyboard and mouse were also activated at this point (had to use wired mouse for the very first initial setup part). Oddly this appeared to boot but then started using the DVD as well to read some. I then booted the machine and selected the USB drive fallback boot option. It continued installing and then again rebooted for a 3rd time (this time it went back into the Windows boot automatically), again via VGA. If I booted and selected the CD or the USB drive legacy OS option it failed with errors about how MAC EFI did not properly support booting from external drives.

INSTALL LINUX ON MAC PRO 1.1 EXTERNAL DRIVE INSTALL

Once it was booting and finishing the install for the 2nd time, it activated the VGA display (presumably has drivers now). This was only for the initial "Setup Windows" phase - once Windows had installed its files (remember to select the BOOTCAMP disk listed, format it, and then choose it for the install) it rebooted as Windows installs normally do (note to self, hold down option here so we can choose Windows boot again). So it turns out everything had been installed and partitioned correctly, and my Mac mini was booting into the new Windows boot partition, but using HDMI output! So the black screen I was seeing was because it was outputting the display to HDMI, not my VGA monitor via the display port adapter. It's important to note that it's obviously a damn good idea to remove other USB devices from the system during this process, or it may boot and pick the wrong USB device.Īnyway back to the black screen. The boot partition is part of the partition that the 3rd tick box does in BCA, which seems to tell the Mac "use this boot loader (EFI) in the partition I created, and use for the USB disk you just created for the install files" - so it purely uses the USB as a storage device for the Windows install. When my computer rebooted for Windows it was simply going to a black screen so I figured the USB boot wasn't working.

In the process I think I've understood a lot more about how my Mac Mini (Late 2014) boots now for Boot Camp.įirst, I thought the USB stick it prepared (I was using Windows 10 Preview ISO) was the actual boot device. I'd been battling all night thinking there was issues with my USB stick etc or some weird partitioning problem etc. Just another possible answer for anyone else with a similar situation to mine.