Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:17:22 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest
>> something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-(
>
> Why do you think this would be a problem? I intend to do this on my
> desktop system at some point. I thought I'd just get a new SSD and make
> that my boot drive and clone the partitions over but after a little
> googling it seems the conversion isn't that difficult.
>
> For example, these instructions cover the conversion of a Ubuntu +
> Windows 10 dual boot system:
> https://www.rojtberg.net/1032/converting-a-ubuntu-and-windows-dual-boot-
installation-to-uefi/
>
> My setup is a little more complicated since I have Debian and Arch in
> addition to Windows 10 but I don't expect major issues. Definitely
> taking an image of my boot SSD first though.
There is a difference in suggested by your link approach and my
requirements. I have reasons to avoid re-installation of my existing
Windows 10. The suggested procedure based on fresh install of Windows 10
from from the media created by Microsoft Media Creation tool instead.
Thus I would have to convert the existing Win10 install. This is the part
in which I was not sure.
Actually now I think that it is feasible and even shouldn't be
exceedingly difficult. But it would be a time consuming, should be
carefully planned.
For the reasons I mentioned in my second post, I'm not sure any longer it
is worth for me to get engaged in this (unless for the sake of
experiment). As I said I can happily live with Windows 10 until the time
comes to replace my laptop with a new one.
BTW, my setup is in no way simpler than yours. My system is multi-boot:
Win10, Debian 10 (my primary OS), Ubuntu, and KDE Neon. I just omitted
not relevant details in my original post. :-)
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