Mojave Doubt - Bootcamp - Restart in Macos from Windows

Hi,

After a lot of hours of research, I have manage to make the BootCamp tool able to restart into an APFS macos (Mojave or High Sierra).

The feature I mean is the following:

To do so, we have to take the following instructions:

1. Open Terminal and Launch diskutil list to see the partitions: (this is my case):

2. Create the new volume with HFS+ format labeled "APFS Bridge":

a. It shrinks the APFS container (disk1) by 200 MB and creates the new 200 MB "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" volume labeled "APFS Bridge".

sudo diskutil ap resizeContainer disk1 177000M JHFS+ "APFS Bridge" 200M

3. Reboot macos.

4. Download the rEFInd Boot Manager from its web site (https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/).

5. Install it into the new "APFS Bridge" volume, by entering the following commands:

a. Supposing that the program is maintained in the Downloads folder.

b. Supposing that the mentioned disk is disk0s3.

cd ~/Downloads/refind-bin-0.11.4

./refind-install --ownhfs /dev/disk0s3

6. Go to Volumes/APFS Bridge/System/Library/CoreServices.

7. Open the refind.conf with the Textedit.app, then, add the following lines into the very end of the file. (This will maintain the mac BIOS instead the new rEFInd program):

#

# Added to make rEFInd silent.

#

menuentry "APFS Bridge" {

icon \System\Library\CoreServices\icons\os_mac.png

volume "Macintosh"

loader \System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi

ostype MacOS

graphics on

}

timeout -1

hideui all

scanfor manual

8. To avoid that the new Volume gets mounted, we have to launch the following lines in the Terminal:

a. Supposing that the Volume is named APFS Bridge. (The \040 is the octal representation of the space character and has to be maintained):

sudo bash

echo >>/etc/fstab

echo "LABEL=APFS\040Bridge none hfs rw,noauto" >>/etc/fstab

exit

And finally it works!!! and the Paragon is not needed to accomplish this.

Hope it helps.

Best regards

Eipok

What I actually don't want to lose is the ability of Restart in Macos from the Bootcamp Control Panel. I fear this because this BootCamp tool, as far as I know, is only compatible with HFS not with APFS. Is this right? Will I lose this feature when I install the Mojave, obligating to change the macos partition from HFS to APFS?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards

Hello Loner T,

Thanks for your answer, but I would like to see a more specific evidence of the loss of the feature I am talking about, i.e. to make BootCamp software compatible with the reboot into macos.

Regarding the Paragon APFS software is not exactly what I want, as I stated before, because I just want native Bootcamp feature work, despite now I have the HFS Paragon one installed, but I doesn't have the feature of reboot in macos as the Bootcamp software has.

Does anybody have any specific experience with this?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards

Hello Daletanium,

First of all, it is not my solution, I brought it from here: windows 10 - Windows10 - Bootcamp Could not locate the macOS boot volume - mac partition unknown - Super User

But I rewrote it to make it more understandable.

Regarding your question, I really don't understand your problem... But I have to say that pure technically speaking, I am not very sure what it is doing behind, but somehow, the file /Volumes/APFS Bridge/System/Library/CoreServices/refind.conf, is pointing the APFS Bridge to the main Macintosh drive, for the Bootcamp Windows tool, when click on Restart in OSX option, point via rEFInd to the APFS Bridge.

But I that is all... And I don't have any idea of how to help you...

Sorry mate.

Regards