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[SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

From steve <dlist@bluewin.ch>
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Subject [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question
Date 2018-09-21 08:40 +0200
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Le 20-09-2018, à 20:25:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :

>>>You don't need to convert anything. UEFI can use DOS partition tables.
>>
>>I know since that's what I'm currently doing.
>
>Doing what ?

Using msdos partition tables.

>I am not talking about you doing anything. I am saying that native 
>UEFI boot (NOT legacy boot) can use a disk with a DOS partition table, 
>provided that it has an EFI system partition (Id 0xef).

Isn't it ef00?

>>But as mentioned in my
>>first message, I suspect the ACPI issues arising during boot time might
>>be linked to that fact. So that's why I'd like to try to be 100% UEFI
>>compliant.
>
>Linked to what fact ? That the disks have DOS partition tables ? No 
>way ACPI cares about that.

That's what I confirmed succeeding in my entreprise :)

Because what I finally did is install a fresh Debian on another device
(using GPT) and the ACPI errors still were there.

I used the opportunity of having another Debian to convert my sda disk
to GPT tables, and change the BIOS setting to UEFI only (just for the
sake of it). So all my disk have a GPT partition table except for the 3
ones for the RAID1 array. Not sure whether I can use the same
manipulations to convert them to GPT also. But since they work fine, I
might leave it as it is.

I used http://www.linuxtopic.com/2017/08/convert-mbr-to-gpt.html to help
me, might be useful to others.

Thanks for time taken to answer.

Best,
Steve

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Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-19 17:00 +0200
  Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-09-19 17:30 +0200
    Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-19 18:00 +0200
  Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-19 23:40 +0200
    Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-20 09:00 +0200
      Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-20 20:30 +0200
        [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-21 08:40 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-21 20:30 +0200
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-22 07:00 +0200
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-22 10:10 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-22 10:50 +0200
            And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Wayne Sallee <Wayne@WayneSallee.com> - 2018-09-23 17:00 +0200
              Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-09-23 18:20 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Wayne Sallee <Wayne@WayneSallee.com> - 2018-09-23 23:30 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-09-24 03:00 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-24 21:20 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-09-24 21:30 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-27 15:10 +0200
              Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-23 20:40 +0200

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