Updating ROCK and changing NUC to boot from UEFI, not Legacy (ref#QOL1KE)

[Jason_Howard]

What’s happening?

· I'm having trouble with Roon ARC

What best describes your issue with ARC

· Other

Describe the issue

Updating ROCK on NUC to UEFI from Legacy boot

Describe your network setup

Gigaclear Fibre router (CG-NET), Roon ROCK on NUC8BEH,

[Jason_Howard]

I’m not sure what happened on the automated help, but I didn’t get a chance to explain the issue… so here goes.

I am running Roon ROCK on my NUC which I have been able to access via ARC up until I recently changed my ISP. The new ISP uses CG-NAT, so I cannot access ARC in the way I have previously done. I am now trying to set up access to ARC outside the house via Tailscale. I have followed the instructions on here for setting up Tailscale, but I cannot get the Tailscale tab to appear in my Roon OS. Having done some reading on here, I understand I need to be on a later version of the Roon OS (I am on version 1, build 259) but I cannot get any later version by clicking on the REINSTALL tab in the Roon OS screen. I believe the two things I need to do are update the Roon OS and change my NUC Bios to boot from UEFI instead of legacy. I have tried to change the bios settings in the NUC to allow UEFI, but I cannot currently drag/drop the boot drive into UEFI as it stands. I’m not sure if this is due to the BIOS being too old, so I have been on the INTEL website to see if there is a Bios update for my NUC. The site is quite poor and after more than an hour of searching around, I cannot find any sign of a BIOS update for my NUC.
So, my question is, do I need to somehow erase the current ROCK on my NUC and install the latest version, and if so, will this then allow me to use the UEFI boot so I can see the Tailscale tab in the Roon OS?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Jason_Howard

have tried to change the bios settings in the NUC to allow UEFI

You can’t switch from Legacy Boot to UEFI after installing the operating system because the two methods create a totally different boot data layout on the disk. You have to choose UEFI before installing the OS. Meaning that you now have to reinstall from scratch. This will probably help:

FYI: Move Roon ROCK NUC to UEFI boot

I thought I would give a brief description of my successful move to UEFI boot (and a minor niggle or question on something odd): Originally set up a NUC10i7FNH with ROCK - at the time only legacy boot was supported. No issues. My NUC has 32gb RAM, 500gb system SSD, and a 4tb internal SSD for local files. First thing was a backup of my Roon db. I auto-backup over the network every 4 days, but I wanted something faster in a USB key. I inserted a USB key in the front USB slot, it was FAT32 format…

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

UEFI and BIOS Legacy are incompatible. When you change your BIOS to use UEFI, your old drive will be unreadable and you will need to re-install ROCK from scratch using the UEFI ROCK build.

Edit: noticed Suedkiez beat me to it.

[Jason_Howard]

Thanks Rugby and Suedkiez, that makes sense.

Ok, I have a backup of my database, so I can install the latest version of the Roon OS from scratch then. Do you know if I need to somehow delete the current version from the SSD first, or when I do the USB install of the latest build, will that overwrite what’s already on there?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

It will overwrite everything

[Jason_Howard]

That’s great, thanks Suedkiez