Re: UEFI grub install fails
David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >> When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and
> >> skipped:
> >
> > When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an
> > MBR disk — and without installation media and product codes. I
> > shrank it and installed Debian. Sorry for being so stupid that I
> > didn't just blow it away, but I need to use it about twice per year.
> >
> > Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to
> > GPT without blowing away the partition table.
>
>
> *I* do not have to -- Duck Duck Go is our friend. STFW "windows 10
> convert mbr to gpt":
>
> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=windows%2010%20convert%20mbr%20to%20gpt
>
>
> The first hit is:
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt
>
> MBR2GPT | Microsoft Learn
If you read that page, you'd see it says:
* There are at most three primary partitions in the MBR partition
table
and
* The disk doesn't have any extended/logical partition
I don't think Van Snyder's disk meets those onditions, so I don't
suppose the page is relevant.
> Untested. YMMV. Caveat backup.
>
>
> David
>
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