Now that the gameplan was in place, I had to roll back the 2016 mac to regular Sierra with a functioning - and non-APFS - clean installation. This is not as easy as it looks, however, because downloading the Sierra image manually for install media creation requires one to be running High Sierra or earlier on a machine that supports upgrade to Sierra. For that reason, I could not download the file using my older 2008 MacBook, and since I did not want to reformat my production MacBook Pro, I ended up creating first installing High Sierra using media I created from my newer mac (which Apple does allow), then used the High Sierra install temporarily to create the necessary Sierra install media. Here is how to create install media for macOS:
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Now that the gameplan was in place, I had to roll back the 2016 mac to regular Sierra with a functioning - and non-APFS - clean installation. This is not as easy as it looks, however, because downloading the Sierra image manually for install media creation requires one to be running High Sierra or earlier on a machine that supports upgrade to Sierra. For that reason, I could not download the file using my older 2008 MacBook, and since I did not want to reformat my production MacBook Pro, I ended up first installing High Sierra using media I created from my newer mac (which Apple does allow), then used the High Sierra install to create the necessary Sierra install media. Here is how to create install media for macOS:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
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