On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:24 PM Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > 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?
I believe you are looking for "convert mbr to gpt uefi." See discussions like <https://gist.github.com/cjyar/cd5ea76a8692516767672ffc2883df92>. Jeff
