On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 12:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > > repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we > > don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new > > installations. > > This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is > no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is > running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be > something of a headache. > > Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space > for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some > other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting? > I actually did it manually several releases ago when I got a new computer that supported EFI but kept the same OS drive. I'm not going to lie, it was VERY painful and took me a while to figure everything out, a lot of googling and trying stuff. It wasn't for the faint of heart. Thanks, Richard
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