On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I got a new notebook with an NVME drive. > > As all my BIOS never needed UEFI, my installation dula boot of Windows and > Debian are all without UEFI. >
New machines may not have "legacy/MBR" options to boot any more. > Thus, it was easy for me, cloning debian to any other hardware in the past to > a ssd drive. > > Now I heard of, that a NVME drive will only get to full speed, if UEFI is > activated in BIOS. Is this correct? > As above, you may not have the choice. UEFI is fairly well tied into hardware. > I am asking, because if NOT, than it would spare me a lot of work, to create > an UEFI partituion, rewrite the bootloaders, fstab, configurations and so on. > A straightforward new installation of Debian should create the ESP and appropriate means to install under UEFI. If you're installing Windows, then you will probably need to make sure that it will boot using UEFI - you can't mix UEFI and "legacy/MBR" booting. A clean install of Windows from .iso would probably be best - your new notebook will have different driver requirements from anything you've had previously. If you install Windows first, use Windows tools to reduce the size of the partition and then install Debian, it should work. Hope this helps - my opinion only, there may be other ways to do this. All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debian.org) > Speed of Windows is not so important for me, but speed of debian is more > important for me. > > --- > > Another question, not really important: The device names, like "/dev/hdX", "/ > dev/sdX" and now "/dev/nvmeX" - who is creating these? The kernel? Must /etc/ > fstab be manually changed, when changing the kind of harddrive? > As others have said, the installer for the OS will pick these up. > --- > > A short answer is very enough! > > Thanks and best regards > > Hans > >
