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Today's Topics:

1. EFI boot (James Womack)
2. Re: Kindle ePaper screen for the taking (Angelo Danio)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:06:31 +0100
From: James Womack <5inowsy1maiq@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] EFI boot
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Hi all,

Thanks for all your help on my previous posting about diagnosing an
intermittent fault in a machine.

The time/stress cost of trying to find the fault was too high, so I
abandoned that machine and replaced it with a machine constructed from
various old parts I had. Predictably, this Frankenstein's monster isn't
up to scratch, either, so I am buying some new hardware.

I have a new motherboard built around the Intel H81 chipset coming next
week. My hope is to be able to remove the hard drives from my current
machine and place them in the new machine without issue.

The new motherboard has an EFI BIOS and I am contemplating migrating my
Ubuntu installation to GPT/EFI as part of the process, rather than
relying on legacy MBR/BIOS support.

Does anyone have any experience of moving an existing Linux installation
from MBR/BIOS to GPT/EFI?

>From reading around, it seems that there are a few steps involved:
1. Create a ~100 MiB FAT32 EFI partition at the beginning of the boot
drive (resize/move other partitions to make space). Leave ~1 MiB at end
of drive as well for GPT data at end of disk.
2. Convert from MBR to GPT using gdisk (GPT fdisk).
3. Boot into a LiveCD/USB in UEFI mode, mount and chroot into root
partition on boot disk.
4. Modify fstab to mount EFI partition at /boot/efi.
5. Install grub-efi package in chrooted / partition.
6. Run grub-install for the boot disk.
7. Reboot and hope.

Does anyone have any additional suggestions/warnings?

James



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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:04:25 +0200
From: Angelo Danio <angelo.danio@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Kindle ePaper screen for the taking
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2014-04-11 2:29 GMT+02:00 Chris Makepeace <chris@makepeace.net>:
> Actually, it's a dead(-ish) Kindle Crude (Mod. D01100) and I don't want to
> throw it away, if possible. It's at BS6 7TH, No 58 or ring O755O118O63.

Hi Chris
if is not so dead to be used as presspapier I'll be keen to buy ....
is the model without touch screen, isn't it?
angelo



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