On Monday, 20 November 2023 23:49:14 GMT thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 11/20/23 11:26, Michael wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > The first thing to establish is if your SSD is using MBR partitioning, or
> > GPT:
> > 
> > fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep 'Disklabel type'
> > 
> > will output "dos" for MBR, or "gpt" for GPT.  I suspect your SSD is using
> > MBR.
>   fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep 'Disklabel type'
> 
> is showing "DOS" not MBR, does it change anything.

Please read again what I wrote above, if the partition table is of the MBR 
type then the fdisk output is indeed "dos".


> Booting from Gparted is showing:
> Boot partition is - ext2
> swap
> and root/  - ext4
> 
> I was thinking to boot strap the disk /dev/sda/ and partition it to GPT/UEFI
> if I have gdisk installed on this computer.

The UEFI MoBo firmware will not boot any .efi image from an ext2 partition.  
It requires a FAT32 partition in which GRUB must be installed:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_System_Partition
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Bootloader

Don't forget to create a backup of your data, before you embark on this 
exercise.