spidey123 Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Hello everyone, I thought I'd create this post today to talk about High Sierra, which will be officially released on the 25th of September. I was wondering if anyone has had any success with the Beta's on the Dell Latitudes. If so, what did you find worked and what didn't? Obviously everyone will have a better idea of things in a few weeks after it's released, but I just wanted to get an idea. Thanks team OSXLatitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted September 22, 2017 Moderators Share Posted September 22, 2017 Obviously you'll have to update to the latest Clover (currently v4200) to get it to boot. It introduces a new format APFS so a new Clover driver (APFS.efi) is needed to detect the HDD. I have it installed on my E7470, E7450, and E7440. Preliminary testing so far is good, minor changes to the Sierra bootpack for it to work as well as Sierra. A lot of kexts has been already updates to work on HS, but some needs additional patching to work as expected. So don't jump into it if you're using your system as a primary driver unless you just want to test it. Create a secondary partition and install there if you're interested in testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidey123 Posted September 22, 2017 Author Share Posted September 22, 2017 Ok thanks Jake Lo, I think I have a spare drive that I'm going to install it on for testing. As like you said this is my primary pc and sometimes I even have to use it at work. The new features however and file system have gotten me excited to start testing As for the new Clover driver, would that go into the same folder as the older HFSPlus.efi? Ok I will start testing once the final version is released next week. Ok Ill look for the correct bootpacks and take a look at them. Thanks Jake Lo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted September 22, 2017 Administrators Share Posted September 22, 2017 HiSie works fine on all my laptops (D630n, E6220, E6230, E6440). APFS not recommended on HDDs, only on SSDs. 'causes very slow performance on legacy HDDs. Most people will probably stay with HFS+ to begin with. Apart from that, HiSie operates like Sierra. Installation is just a little more complex with several reboots and need to boot the Recovery partition to complete installation. Works perfectly with Enoch too. You can use the latest version too (minimum required is r2829 or r2839, can't remember). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidey123 Posted September 23, 2017 Author Share Posted September 23, 2017 Oh that's right Herve. I had forgotten. The new file system is only for SSD's. Hmmm I guess I do with first try the normal way on a normal HDD and once I see everything works then I will put on my main SSD drive. Ok thanks again as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted September 23, 2017 Administrators Share Posted September 23, 2017 for me updating DP9 to GM on my triple boot SSD, HS force upgraded my GUID/HFS drive to APFS. screwed my windows 10 boot. HS does not allow me to revert it back to GUID/HFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidey123 Posted September 23, 2017 Author Share Posted September 23, 2017 Ok well thats good to know. Thx for the heads up bronxteck!!! This won't be a problem on my Latitude because I'm only running OSX. I have windows dual booting on my Inspiron 3542 and since I just got that one working recently on Sierra, I'm going to be leaving it alone for a while or at least till I have gotten everything up and running on the Latitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted September 23, 2017 Moderators Share Posted September 23, 2017 If you have Sierra working on the latitude now, it should continue working with the same bootpack. You just need the latest Clover and enable FixHeaders_20000000 using latest Clover Configurator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidey123 Posted September 23, 2017 Author Share Posted September 23, 2017 Oh wow, that't it Jake Lo? I thought for sure there would need to be more entries and extra kexts. Alright then I'll just get a config.plist ready and enable FixHeaders_20000000. Thanks Jake Lo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidey123 Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 Ok guys, ive just backuped my system and Im downloading the install High Sierra package. One thing I forgot to ask, do I need to add the newest FakeSMC file or can I use the one I was previously using with Sierra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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