So as of a while ago, I think Mojave, you can no longer make bootable full macOS boot drives on a USB thumbstick:
I used to have a bootable USB thumb drive per OS to make it easy to boot in each in a nice folder, but that's no longer possible (see above thread).
However, apparently, it might be possible to make an UBER SSD with multiple partitions, each having it's own OS that you can select to boot (via command option at boot/chime time).
Has anyone made such an SSD must-boot drive? I was hoping to make one with as many macOSs going back as far as possible and hoping someone may have done this already. Yes, ideally it would go back all the way to macOS1, but at this point I'll take what I can get and go back through the intel days (if I can go back to PPC days, bonus, further back, bonus still).
My worry is how to correctly format different portions and if there are any conflicts with regard to HFS+/APFS, and all the recovery partitions etc. that modern macOSs make. It seems like each install could clobber other installs.
But I'd basically like a Swiss army knife of macOS so no matter what machine I have, I can boot into the right OS and recover files etc.
Apple, being total bastards, has made all this unnecessarily difficult, and you cant even save your old macOS installers anymore for more current OSs, you have to download from apple just to install. Annoying.
Thanks for any pointers/advice/help!
I used to have a bootable USB thumb drive per OS to make it easy to boot in each in a nice folder, but that's no longer possible (see above thread).
However, apparently, it might be possible to make an UBER SSD with multiple partitions, each having it's own OS that you can select to boot (via command option at boot/chime time).
Has anyone made such an SSD must-boot drive? I was hoping to make one with as many macOSs going back as far as possible and hoping someone may have done this already. Yes, ideally it would go back all the way to macOS1, but at this point I'll take what I can get and go back through the intel days (if I can go back to PPC days, bonus, further back, bonus still).
My worry is how to correctly format different portions and if there are any conflicts with regard to HFS+/APFS, and all the recovery partitions etc. that modern macOSs make. It seems like each install could clobber other installs.
But I'd basically like a Swiss army knife of macOS so no matter what machine I have, I can boot into the right OS and recover files etc.
Apple, being total bastards, has made all this unnecessarily difficult, and you cant even save your old macOS installers anymore for more current OSs, you have to download from apple just to install. Annoying.
Thanks for any pointers/advice/help!