dosdude1
rippledoos
dearthnVader
handheldgames
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Dear Peers
I would really prefer to stay in Sierra 10.12.6 until High Sierra goes to final Gold Master
as my current cMP Sierra install is my English school workhorse & is in constant use.
Apparently I need format my Samsung 960 EVO tp 4096k block size.
1. Is the 960 EVO 4k compatible ?
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( From a Gilles post :
Hello, The 960 Evo can't be, to my knowledge, formatted with 4K blocs, which are mandatory to boot Sierra.
So you can't boot Sierra (10.12.6) natively on a 960 Evo, but you can boot High Sierra (10.13) which was just released.
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( I’ve looked around the net but cannot find anything conclusive regarding whether the 960 EVO can be formatted to 4k )
2. Is it SAFE to format my 960 EVO to 4096kb?
3. If it IS safe, Is this the correct Terminal command ?
( example ) newfs_hfs -v HFS_VOLUME_NAME -b 4k /dev/rdisk2s1
If the above formatting procedure is not recommended ( dangerous) I’ll wait ’til High Sierra is finalised.
But. . it would be so nice to be able to boot into Sierra 10.12.6 from my 960 EVO.
Thanks in advance
I can't really answer a lot of that, you'd just have to figure out what allows HS to boot from NVME 512k and port it to Sierra.
Really it shouldn't be that hard. However if your goal is to run a stock/unmodified version of the macOS, I just don't see why you would expect to be able to do that, and what benefit it would be to you.
When I can't get bootx to load, I change the source code to find out why, then I fix the underling reason, when I can't get boot.efi to load, I fix the underlying reason. When I can's get the Mac OS ROM to load, I fix the underlying reason. When I can't get mach_kernel to load, I fix the underlying reason.
Are you sensing a pattern?
I'm not trying to come off as smart, I'm just naturally a little abrasive. If there were a lot of people that wanted to fix this, I maybe inclined to fix it, however, like I say, Sierra doesn't have much support for APSF, and APSF is way faster on solid state drives, HFS+ even journaled was made to run on very old hardware, very slow spinning drives.
I want to take full advantage of my hardware, but I don't want to have to reinvent the wheel to do it. Apple gave us HS, free of charge, and it's stable and reliable for everything I do.
I can understand that if you have software or hardware that doesn't work correct in HS, but does in Sierra, there would be some need to boot Sierra.
I just have no reason too.
