Yet another UEFI/BIOS question
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, and the
system takes ages too continue the process:
[ 0.185353] Error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT
[ 0.275838] ACPI Error: [INTS] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20170831/dswload-378)
[ 0.319628] ACPI Error: [SDS0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psargs-364)
[ 0.319685] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \SHAD._STA, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550)
[ 0.319749] ACPI Error: [SDS0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psargs-364)
[ 0.319804] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \SHAD._STA, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550)
[ 33.170504] ACPI Error: [SDS0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psargs-364)
[ 33.170575] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \SHAD._STA, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550)
[ 33.195221] ACPI Error: [SDS0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psargs-364)
[ 33.195279] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \SHAD._STA, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550)
[ 33.977492] ACPI Error: [SDS0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psargs-364)
[ 33.977584] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \SHAD._STA, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550)
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, which I just
noticed) a msdos partition table:
root@box:~# parted /dev/sda print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: msdos
root@box:~# parted /dev/sdb print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: msdos
root@box:~# parted /dev/sdc print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: msdos
root@box:~# parted /dev/sdd print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: gpt
root@box:~# parted /dev/sde print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: msdos
root@box:~# parted /dev/sdf print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: msdos
root@box:~# parted /dev/sdg print | grep -i partition
Partition Table: gpt
1 1049kB 524MB 523MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
2 524MB 629MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
3 629MB 646MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
4 646MB 250GB 249GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
Grub-pc is currently installed on /dev/sda1 (/boot) and /dev/sda.
Disks sdb, sdc and sdf are raid1:
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md1 : active raid1 sdb5[2](S) sdf5[3] sdc5[1]
117120896 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 sdf6[3] sdb6[2](S) sdc6[1]
97589120 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sdf1[3] sdb1[2](S) sdc1[1]
19514240 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
My questions are rather simple. Is it conceivable to convert the sdd's to gpt
partition table without reformatting/reinstalling the whole disks? Or maybe
only sda (which contains /, /usr, /boot and /tmp) so I can switch my BIOS to
UEFI? Am I stuck with those msdos partition tables?
Sorry for the long message, I hope there is enough info.
Thanks for any help.
Steve
PS: debian stretch with some backports (and an old 4.15 kernel)
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