Hi @iwalker, I’m sorry about my way to initiate my participation here lacks all the relevant information. Apologies. It was a couple of hours past midnight and I found this forum. I have been battling for more than a week already trying to run a Linux system as only operating system on my old Mac Pro in order to run DaVinci Resolve for Linux on it. A few things haven’t worked well yet, so I’ve been learning quite a lot. I’m totally new to Linux.
I’ll gather detailed technical information about hardware, software and steps I’ve followed and I’ll post proper information here, so that if I succeed runing Resolve and Fusion (compositing video application included in the free DaVinci Resolve package) on an early 2009 Mac Pro, also other users can find the information and continue to use these old Unix-based machines that are really great.
My current experience is that after managing to complete a Rocky 9 installation of the machine’s formatted boot drive, after pressing “reboot”, the computer does not boot.
I found a post talking about a “–nomacboot" flag in Rocky installer. The next thing I’ll do is to learn more about that and try a few things to see if I can get my old Mac Pro to boot Rocky 9.
I’ll post my findings here.
Here’s that post : Error installing Rocky 8.4 on macbook pro - #5 by deleted-account