Creating a partition to run legacy OS (Mavericks)
I just bought the latest model of MacBook Air (2017 model). I would like to partition its HD and have Mavericks running in that 2nd partition.
I have a similar 2-partition setup on my 2010 MBAir (i.e., Mavericks & Snow Leopard). I just heard (from an Apple Forum) that this kind of setup will no longer work on Apple notebooks. Is that true??!? IOW, I cannot have one partition running High Sierra and another running Mavericks? Before I go through the hoops to partition and attempt to restore from my SDuper backup of my Mavericks system, I'd like to find out if this plan will work. Thanks in advance. |
You definitely can’t run Mavericks with a new Mac. The old OS doesn’t support the new Mac’s hardware.
It has nothing to do with the partitioning. It has to do with the hardware support in the OS. |
I see.
Do you know what the oldest version of the OS is that can be run on a MacBook Air 2017? |
Apologies for the delayed reply here - the notification of this post somehow went to junk!
I unfortunately don't know. I'm guessing whatever OS it came with - that's typically the case. |
You can find the shipping version of the OS for that machine in Mactracker
http://mactracker.ca/index.html |
Or without having to download an app, at Everymac
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