Roon OS 2.1 - UEFI build only?

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From memory, so possibly missing a crucial step, but basically:

  1. backup your Roon database
  2. prepare a boot USB installer drive
  3. power down your NUC, enter the BIOS and disable legacy boot
  4. boot from the USB installer drive and install Rock - if it doesn’t boot, either the USB is not right, or EFI boot is not supported/enabled
  5. restore the Roon database
  6. edit ‘watched folders’ to make sure the music drive is correct
  7. miller time

There’s no real ‘danger’ as long as you have a good backup, it’s just time consuming… The only drive that should be affected is the M2 OS drive. Let the installer do its thing, do not re-format the SATA music drive. Just remembered, you’re going to have reinstall the ffmpeg codec too…

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The other elephant in the room is what about MOCK machines…

Also anyone have a handy link to what rock installs or builds are currently UEFI versions?

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From the Roon OS 2.1 release announcement:

This implies that the UEFI boot was introduced in build 256. As a consequence, it is probable that if your Nucleus/ROCK/MOCK device reports a Roon OS build number lower than 256, then it is using BIOS boot. If it reports a Roon OS build number equal to or greater than 256, then it is using UEFI boot.

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@Wade_Oram I don’t think so. I installed my NUC 10i7 in legacy-mode, and my actual version is Build 259. To be clear, I never re-installed Roon in UEFI. So I am afraid that the build-number is not a clear indication of the type of boot.
Kind regards, Frank.

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True, 259 was for everyone

But 261 was released in July only for UEFI installs.

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I am running:

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But there is no update:

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Torben

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I have a Lenovo Thinkcentre M720Q running Rock. It’s a i5-8400T unit and works very well.

All i/o works with Rock, even WiFi :smiling_imp:

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@danny, @benjamin,

Would it make sense to have an official guide on how to properly migrate a NUC ROCK install to UEFI? I would really like to avoid screwing up my local files for example.

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Thanks, I was thinking more of a ‘how to’ rather than a ‘what to’;

eg

  1. backup your Roon database:
    • insert a FAT32 formatted USB drive into your NUC
    • in roon goto Settings>Backups and click [Backup] in the ‘Backup now’ section
    • Click [Select location] and choose the USB drive (likely to be identified as Generic_Flash_Disk) then click [Start]
  2. prepare a boot USB installer drive:
    • download v2.1 of ROCK from ???
  • and so on…

I know all this information is available in various places on the main roon site and this forum; but it would be useful to have it all pulled together into a single place for the specific task of converting a legacy BIOS ROCK to a UEFI ROCK…

Is it recommended to update the UEFI BIOS, if so presumably download it from [NUC] Support Links for NUC Mini PC | Official Support | ASUS USA ?

If there’s a second SSD installed in the NUC with music files on it, should it be disconnected first; if so when in the process and should it be reconnected, before or after restoring the database backup?

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I wouldn’t bother updating the BIOS, this is an unnecessary complication which has the potential to break things.

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I didn’t bother removing it, just make sure you select the correct destination drive for the OS.

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No, it would not make sense. As has been stated, the process is the same as a RoonOS install on a new machine. And such guide has existed for a long time. It has been posted multiple times in this thread.

You are hemming and hawing too much over this. Either do it or leave well enough alone.

AJ

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Great idea, I also would do it just to be a bit safer.

This is correct.

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