On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:46 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: == >> Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space >> for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some >> other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting? > > > I actually did it manually several releases ago when I got a new computer > that supported EFI but kept the same OS drive. > > I'm not going to lie, it was VERY painful and took me a while to figure > everything out, a lot of googling and trying stuff. It wasn't for the faint > of heart.
I did it a few years ago when I decided to (finally) convert a ~9 year old (at the time, ~11 year old now) PC from BIOS to (U)EFI (initially my belief was that Linux support for (U)EFI was not as mature as it is now, which is why I choose to stay in BIOS mode). However, I had thought ahead all those years ago, and partitioned using GPT and had reserved both a BIOS boot partition (which was suggested somewhere during that period) and a EFI system partition, so I did not have to deal with extensive re-partitioning steps. As I recall it was not all *that* hard[0], although I agree it was not at all well described (and because I was paranoid I had built (and tested) a USB emergency boot drive just in case, although I did not end up needing it (probably because I had it)). I will agree that there are enough edge cases that for all practical purposes one should likely recommend reinstall most of the time (after the two+ tested backups one should make, of course). btw, since the time I did so, a red behatted individual described the steps they used at https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bios-uefi which is clearly a proof by example it can be done. Sometimes. Gary [0] It is always possible that I have suppressed all the painful memories as a survival technique. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
