APFS Driver for macOS High Sierra

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APFS driver in macOS High Sierra, with the verbose logging suppressed.

Apple introduced Apple File System in macOS High Sierra. In order to boot to macOS from PC, you need to add the file system driver apfs.efi to your boot loader.

The original apfs.efi driver extracted from macOS High Sierra (/usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi) has verbose logging and will display some flash messages before you boot into the loader. This repository provides the modified version (and also the original version) so that you don't have to edit the binary yourself.

10.13.1

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/apfs-high-sierra-10-13-1-no-early-logging.236133/

In order to quiet the APFS.efi logging, patch the following in Hex Fiend:

Offset 0x2227e -> 0x55 to 0xC3

• apfs.efi - logging suppressed
  • MD5: bbdfcc6e4998401aa942b93992a7282e
  • SHA1: 324e81abc51620dab303976a8f739c66283ce117
• apfs.efi.original - original version (remove the trailing file extension)
  • MD5: c4f1aed703d099c4cd84b25cc9ff7b18
  • SHA1: 2d9a016f60eb49dd12d3f2ca3be7bf3fdd56f134

10.13.2

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/how-to-update-current-and-past-apfs-efi-downloads.236103/page-2#post-1643926

This works in terminal:

sudo perl -i -pe 's|\x00\x74\x07\xb8\xff\xff|\x00\x90\x90\xb8\xff\xff|sg' /path/to/your/APFS.efi

• apfs.efi - logging suppressed
  • MD5: f9258848ffbbb9dd7f109c8c70666b46
  • SHA1: 3ea189240c2b74fdd6f9486167c2475afee9b702
• apfs.efi.original - original version (remove the trailing file extension)
  • MD5: da1e17572159b5db36f637c9d48ac2cb
  • SHA1: 8b062e1b1538b8cbf906a716ed3a1a6a8e626bf3