Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question
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
there later). I then installed Win10 on a new sdd, which boots also
correctly.
I'm not familiar with the acronym "sdd". Did You Mean™
SSDs - Solid State Disks
SDDs - SCSI Disk Drives (I'm making something up here)
/dev/sd* - Disks using the SCSI driver
Sorry, Solid State Disks.
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)
I don't believe this is a problem.
Well it is at boot time. System waits for more than 30 secondes before
going on.
ACPI is a complex beast and
sometimes the ACPI driver is overly strict about working with ACPI and
sometimes ACPI is overly strict about working with Linux (actually, I
think Linux nowadays defaults to pretending to be Windows). The general
advice is "Do you notice any other issues other than error messages?"
If not, don't worry about it.
Haven't noticed other issues yet.
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:
Changing Motherboard shouldn't have altered the partition table on
your disks.
It hasn't. The fact that sdd has a gpt one is a happy coincidence :)
This device holds my virtual machines so no real problems.
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?
Yes. Here's a good write-up on the subject from Rod Smith, the author
of gdisk, a GPT-only equivalent to fdisk.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html
I'll read. Thanks for the link.
Steve
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