Hi folks,
as promised I send you my experiences with cloning to NVME.
So, today I got my new notebook. As I never used UEFI, I disabled UEFI in BIOS
(my first mistake!), then cloned everything to the new drive.
Firts reboot worked well, no problems. But then I realized, that if you want
NVME mode, you MUST use native UEFI in BIOS settings.
However, doing so, neither Debian nor Windows will boot. Of course: There is
no EFI partition on my harddrive, as I never needed one (still).
Now I am hasseling with the drive, as I want NVME-mode of course, because it
is faster. And of course, I do not want to reinstall everything!
I saw some documentations, how to get EFI on the drive, but it looks, you need
a seperate partition with FAT to get EFI on, right?
However, I saw also the possibility to get EFI on my seperate /boot partition.
What can I do? I would like to keep the existing partitions. However, I could
shrink them. At the moment, my drive looks at this:
primary partition Windows-boot ntfs
primary partition Windows ntfs
primary partition /boot /dev/sda3 ext4
extended partition /dev/sda4
logical partition /dev/sda5 swap
logical partition /dev/sda6 / ext4
logical partition /dev/sda7 encrypted home
logical partition /dev/sda8 encrypted usr
logical partition /dev/sda9 encrypted var
logical partition /dev/sda10 encrypted data
So I could shrinken some partitions and create a new logical one.
Other option would be, delete "swap" partition and make a new "EFI" partition.
What do you think, might be the best way?
Some better ideas?
Thanks for reading this.
Best regards
Hans
