[GTALUG] Hints for upgrading

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Wed Jul 27 22:46:53 EDT 2016


On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 03:32:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:55:13AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> > 4. If you plan to move the harddisk to another machine (like I do), then
> > use MBR.  Problem with EFI is that it writes the boot entry in BIOS.
> > Well, on a new motherboard, boot entry is not there, so you can't boot.
> > You have to dig into EFI shell, and manually select your .efi.\
> 
> That would mean not supporting drives over 2TB.  Not working if the
> machine only boots EFI (some exist, and some are configured that way).

For boot drive, yes.  My boot drive is SSD and 2TB is not in the near
term future, so it's ok.
-- 
William


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