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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot (Tony Blackwell)</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Sun Aug 12 14:33:52 CEST 2012</I>
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On 12/08/12 12:28, Maurice Batey wrote:
><i> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:49:18 +1000, Tony Blackwell wrote:
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</I>>><i> My current understanding from communications with ASUS and
</I>>><i> Gigabyte is that their BIOS's will not provide any way to disable
</I>>><i> secure boot.
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</I>><i> In which case won't pre-Windows 8 versions of Windows fail to
</I>><i> boot?
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</I>><i> Can you quote a source w.r.t. ASUS & Gigabyte situation, please?
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</I>><i> (See <A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/bwcjruu">http://tinyurl.com/bwcjruu</A> for one that *does* appear to
</I>><i> provide 'disable Secure Boot'.)
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There's still far too much guesswork on how this is going to work.
Interestingly, when I enlarged the image in that link I saw "UEFI
Secure Boot can only be activated on the MS 7800 motherboard once
administrator and user passwords have been set" - implying that it is
not set out-of-the-box.
Anne
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