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I tried the uefi install and i got a black screen saying there were no bootable devices found..Not certain my laptop is uefi compliant....i changed the settings in the bios and nothing happened.It is possible i may have missed a bios setting..i am not familiar with this bios approach.

Charlie Brown wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:13 am You can (if you like) just change to Uefi. But, the moment you change the partitioning scheme (no matter from mbr to gpt or the vice versa) the whole disk will be blank.

How do i go about just changing it.?

System: Kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64 [6.1.67-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-16-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.1_x64 ...

hello forum and hope everyone is well. The laptop i am currently using has mx installed using the MBR legacy method..the laptop came with windows 10 preinstalled but i scrubbed that and installed mx..Upon one of my previous posts i was infromed that maybe i should install using the UEFI method..I ...

Just to add.
2 pics of my enabled services at boot.

Out of curiosity, what are you considering as "slow"? Because I don't have any complaints about a 20 to 30+s bootup time on my 2015 MBR-boot machine. Also, as I understand it, there is a systemd command called systemd-analyze that may help analyze the boot process and how much time each step is ...

Thanks,
Do i need to change the BIOS values to gpt also.?

Thank you for your response.I am assuming my partition table will need changing to GPT as it is an msdos partition table at the moment.This laptop came with windows 10 preinstalled on a GPT partition table..i changed the table to msdos and installed mx using MBR....research on the web seemed to ...

Hi, Suddenly experiencing a slower boot time. This is my quick info. System: Kernel: 6.1.0-15-amd64 [6.1.66-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-15-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel ...

It is possible that fschk is running..it can be disabled within the mx service manager and turned on again at the users discretion.