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eppur_se_muova

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2. If you want to upgrade OS X, you may need the SFOTT bootloader ...

Reply to Atman (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 10:59 PM

Oct 2017

https://oemden.com/sixty-four-on-thirty-two-sfott/

I tried for the longest time to install 10.8 or 10.9 on my MacPro, without success. But with SFOTT I was able to follow the instructions in a pretty straightforward monkey-see-monkey-do way and get my 10.7 boot partition (which had crashed !) restored to a functioning boot partition, and a second partition upgraded to 10.9. Maybe your son would be more comfortable doing this than you would, but if he has already run into the GUID/EFI partition mess, he may already have tried some of the other approaches which were, in my experience, not sufficient. If so, just steer him to SFOTT. It will save all kinds of trouble.

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Scary stuff...total overhaul of my Mac Mini. [View all] Atman Oct 2017 OP

Good luck. efhmc Oct 2017 #1

If you want to upgrade OS X, you may need the SFOTT bootloader ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2017 #2

BTW: 10.7 no longer has scroll arrows. Apple somehow decided to omit them because of iTunes. eppur_se_muova Oct 2017 #3

The drives are in. Just waiting for the mounting bracket. Atman Oct 2017 #4

I had to wait to do the upgrade, but all is done. Wow. Atman Nov 2017 #5