Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/09/2018 à 18:18, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:58:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: What do you recommend for setting up a system that will boot in either UEFI or BIOS mode, so if it is moved back and forth between UEFI and BIOS, it will boot every time? I recommend you

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:11:44PM -0500, David Wright wrote: You might think that from the name of the link, but the page fails to live up to its promise. Some quotations: "BIOS lives inside a chip on your computers motherboard. Inside the BIOS, is a small section called “MBR”, which stands

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-24 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Sep 2018 at 17:58:08 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:20:05 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: > > > Thank you for the 15 seconds of time that you spent. But that page > > that you linked to is useless. > > That link is where you start: First, by building a foundation on

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:20:05 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: > Thank you for the 15 seconds of time that you spent. But that page > that you linked to is useless. That link is where you start: First, by building a foundation on the techniques of multi-booting; then expand on that with additional and

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-23 Thread Wayne Sallee
Thank you for the 15 seconds of time that you spent. But that page that you linked to is useless. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com On 09/23/2018 12:18 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:58:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: What do you recommend for

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Sep 2018 at 10:58:54 (-0400), Wayne Sallee wrote: > What do you recommend for setting up a system that will boot in either > UEFI or BIOS mode, so if it is moved back and forth between UEFI and > BIOS, it will boot every time? I have no idea whether this would work as I haven't tried

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:58:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: > What do you recommend for setting up a system that will boot in > either UEFI or BIOS mode, so if it is moved back and forth between > UEFI and BIOS, it will boot every time? I recommend you learn how to use Google or DuckDuckGo, etc.

And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

2018-09-23 Thread Wayne Sallee
What do you recommend for setting up a system that will boot in either UEFI or BIOS mode, so if it is moved back and forth between UEFI and BIOS, it will boot every time? Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com On 09/21/2018 02:21 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-22 Thread steve
Le 22-09-2018, à 10:07:36 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 22/09/2018 à 06:58, steve a écrit : Because what I finally did is install a fresh Debian on another device (using GPT) and the ACPI errors still were there. In legacy mode (with a BIOS boot partition) or EFI mode (with an EFI

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/09/2018 à 06:58, steve a écrit : Because what I finally did is install a fresh Debian on another device (using GPT) and the ACPI errors still were there. In legacy mode (with a BIOS boot partition) or EFI mode (with an EFI system partition) ? In EFI mode. The "Bios" is now fully in

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-21 Thread steve
Le 21-09-2018, à 20:21:06 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 21/09/2018 à 08:34, steve a écrit : Le 20-09-2018, à 20:25:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : You don't need to convert anything. UEFI can use DOS partition tables. I know since that's what I'm currently doing. Doing what ?

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/09/2018 à 08:34, steve a écrit : Le 20-09-2018, à 20:25:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : You don't need to convert anything. UEFI can use DOS partition tables. I know since that's what I'm currently doing. Doing what ? Using msdos partition tables. This is irrelevant because

[SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-21 Thread steve
Le 20-09-2018, à 20:25:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : You don't need to convert anything. UEFI can use DOS partition tables. I know since that's what I'm currently doing. Doing what ? Using msdos partition tables. I am not talking about you doing anything. I am saying that native

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/09/2018 à 08:53, steve a écrit : Le 19-09-2018, à 23:30:40 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 19/09/2018 à 16:50, steve a écrit : Googling around, I suspect that these errors come from the fact that the BIOS is configured to but in Legacy mode (aka Bios mode) rather than in the more

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-20 Thread steve
Hi Pascal, Thank you for your answer Le 19-09-2018, à 23:30:40 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 19/09/2018 à 16:50, steve a écrit : Googling around, I suspect that these errors come from the fact that the BIOS is configured to but in Legacy mode (aka Bios mode) rather than in the more

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/09/2018 à 16:50, steve a écrit : Googling around, I suspect that these errors come from the fact that the BIOS is configured to but in Legacy mode (aka Bios mode) rather than in the more modern UEFI mode. Just an hypothesis. But the problem is that my old sdd's have all (except /dev/sdd,

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread steve
Hi Darac, Thanks answering me. Le 19-09-2018, à 16:28:51 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:50:14PM +0200, steve wrote: Hi there, Just bought a new Mother Board and transfered all of my sdd's from my old box to the new one. New box boots almost normally (I'll come back

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:50:14PM +0200, steve wrote: Hi there, Just bought a new Mother Board and transfered all of my sdd's from my old box to the new one. New box boots almost normally (I'll come back there later). I then installed Win10 on a new sdd, which boots also correctly. I'm not

Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread steve
Hi there, Just bought a new Mother Board and transfered all of my sdd's from my old box to the new one. New box boots almost normally (I'll come back there later). I then installed Win10 on a new sdd, which boots also correctly. Now when booting Debian Stretch, I get the following messages,