Re: NVME - slower speed with deactivated UEFI?
> New machines may not have "legacy/MBR" options to boot any more.
>
Mine is a used one, a Dell 5400, and luckily it can still use legacy boot.
> A straightforward new installation of Debian should create the ESP and
> appropriate means to install under UEFI. If you're installing Windows,
> then you will probably need to make sure that it will boot using UEFI -
> you can't mix UEFI and "legacy/MBR" booting.
Yes, it will, but I just wanted to avoid this. A clean install would mean,
rsync all data to the new drive and edit several configurations. A new install
will be the last resort.
>
> A clean install of Windows from .iso would probably be best - your new
> notebook will have different driver requirements from anything you've
> had previously. If you install Windows first, use Windows tools to reduce
> the size of the partition and then install Debian, it should work.
>
Tried this, but gaaah, first boot of Windows resulted in a boot-loop. It was
Windows-10, and crashzed at install, sigh....
> Hope this helps - my opinion only, there may be other ways to do this.
>
> All the very best, as ever,
>
> Andrew Cater
> (amacater@debian.org)
>
Best
Hans
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