Linux beginner can't figure out how to get a UEFI SATA drive to boot on a non-UEFI PC #517
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I'm quite the Linux beginner, hence my choice of Mint 20.3 (XFCE), but I'm quite adept to the hardware side of PC things. To put it simply, I have an installation of Mint 20.3 on a 2.5" GPT-formatted SATA SSD on a Ryzen-based PC that is UEFI-only. However, this UEFI-only PC has developed a hardware issue and I'd like to move the SATA SSD to an older-but-working Sandy Bridge PC while I RMA the faulty hardware. The problem is that the Sandy Bridge PC only supports legacy MBR boot. It was my impression that this is something that Clover could solve without me needing to re-install my OS but 99.99% of all guides I keep finding are for new installations, Hackintosh installations, and/or NVMe SSDs. And, because Mint 21.0 should be releasing in only a month or two which almost certainly will fix several XFCE bugs that I've ran into that are solved on Xubuntu 22.04, it would feel silly for me to re-install my OS now only to re-install it again in a month or two's time, especially if I then have the same problem with trying to migrate the installation from legacy boot back to a UEFI-only environment. One thing in particular is that after writing the Clover ISO to a USB flash drive, whether through Ventoy or Rufus, it doesn't seem to function at all (the PC behaves as if there's nothing on it despite there definitely being data on it) which makes me think that this isn't quite the correct way to use Clover... For reference, at least when only legacy boot is involved, it seems like I'm able to move Linux Mint installations between any PC and have it boot without issue as long as Nvidia graphics aren't involved. |
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Turns out that Clover isn't needed at all and, at least for Mint 20.x (and maybe Ubuntu 20.04 and later as well?), it's actually really easy as long as you first install the OS on a UEFI PC. See this forum thread for more info: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=375211 |
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Turns out that Clover isn't needed at all and, at least for Mint 20.x (and maybe Ubuntu 20.04 and later as well?), it's actually really easy as long as you first install the OS on a UEFI PC.
See this forum thread for more info: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=375211