Creating a partition to run legacy OS (Mavericks)

[keriah]

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.

[dnanian]

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.

[keriah]

I see.

Do you know what the oldest version of the OS is that can be run on a MacBook Air 2017?

[dnanian]

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.

[Michael@wengam]

You can find the shipping version of the OS for that machine in Mactracker
http://mactracker.ca/index.html

[nekomatic]

Or without having to download an app, at Everymac