- #MAC MINI SERVER LATE 2012 HOW TO#
- #MAC MINI SERVER LATE 2012 INSTALL#
- #MAC MINI SERVER LATE 2012 MAC#
Once you have it installed on the MacMini you can use the following command on the host to have the iovDisableIR settings stick (enable SSH just to perform the following):
Activate SSH on the Hypervisor, remote in (copying NET-TG3.V00 over), extract the files, modify them and then perform the inverse of the extraction to recreate the NET-TG3.V00 file.Ĭopy the NET-TG3.V00 file onto the installation media removing the older version.
#MAC MINI SERVER LATE 2012 INSTALL#
The easist way to go about this is to install the hypervisor in VMware Fusion (or if you have it running on another machine already use that). The V00 file can be extracted using vmtar, followed by a normal tar. If you copy the entries for say device ID 0x1688 and modify them to reflect the 0x1686 that will get it working. The new MacMini's use a BROADCOM BCM57766 which have a device ID of 0x1686. You will need to extract this and edit two files that relate to pci id mapping. On the installation media there is a file called: NET-TG3.V00 Saltmaster, did you experience problems with VMFS? Hopefully it's not another adaptation that is necessary for the new MacMini.
#MAC MINI SERVER LATE 2012 MAC#
That could be, because I booted from USB and have no VMFS datastore on the Mac yet (the harddisk still contains OsX). What does "iovDisableIR=TRUE" do? Could that maybe affect the Thunderbolt Interface? It was an easy option to add a second network adapter to a MacMini (pitty, that there are no Thunderbolt hubs yet).Īs I booted from the pre-installed USB key I saw a message "loading vmfs3 failed" on the yellow/grey ESXi screen. That works with all the previous MacMini models, but not on the new the Apple Tunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet adapter is NOT working.
#MAC MINI SERVER LATE 2012 HOW TO#
Thank you very much! How to permanently add this boot saltmaster: can you please help me how to insert the new PCI device id into the device mapping tables? I use a customized image with the latest version of the net-tg3 offline bundle.
That seems to be fixed now: whenever I press the Alt key at the powerup chime, I get the Apple "boot menu", even with our KVM switch in dariusd: I can also confirm that the boot option prevents ESXi 5.1 from crashing. PS2: on the earlies models we had the problem, that the Alt key wasn't recognized after powering on, when there is an USB hub between the keyboard and the Mac (a KVM switch for example). PS1: I was unable to boot the ESXi setup from USB key! Since other USB keys (OsX setup for example) didn't work either, I suspect that there's some EFI boot problem from the new USB3 ports. It is the regular MacMini with an i7 4C 2.3GHz and one 1TB SATA drive ( with no extras), not the MacMini Server. I tried instalkling 5.0 and 5.0 U1 also, but with the same result. I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build 799733.
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