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re:<br>
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<pre wrap="">My current understanding from communications with ASUS and Gigabyte is
that their BIOS's will not provide any way to disable secure boot.
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<pre wrap=""> In which case won't pre-Windows 8 versions of Windows fail to boot?
Can you quote a source w.r.t. ASUS & Gigabyte situation, please?
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A. My responses from: (See also ref to relevant lwn discussion at
tail of this)<br>
(Have I over-interpreted their replies: you judge)<br>
<br>
1. ASUS (The actual motherboard mentioned was just one of their new
UEFI ones I selected to keep the website happy)<br>
<br>
ASUS CASEID=RWTM20120422197363025-780 <br>
<snip><br>
Dear Valued Customer,<br>
Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.<br>
My name is Andrew and it's my pleasure to help you with your
problem.<br>
You can install the other OS on the board.But we do dnot support
drives for Linux on this board.<br>
Welcome to refer Troubleshooting & FAQ for ASUS products in ASUS
website:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://support.asus.com/servicehome.aspx?SLanguage=en">http://support.asus.com/servicehome.aspx?SLanguage=en</a><br>
If you continue to experience issues in the future, please do not
hesitate to contact us.<br>
Best Regards,<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
---------- Original Message ----------<br>
From : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tablackwell@bigpond.com">tablackwell@bigpond.com</a><br>
Sent : 2012-4-22 11:07:11<br>
To : <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tsd@asus.com.tw">"tsd@asus.com.tw"</a><br>
Subject : <TSD> Motherboard SABERTOOTH X79<br>
<br>
[Product Information]<br>
*Product Type : Motherboard<br>
*Product Model : SABERTOOTH X79<br>
<snip><br>
[CPU Specification]<br>
*CPU Vendor : intel<br>
*CPU Type : 2011<br>
*CPU Speed : 3.3<br>
<snip><br>
*Operating System : Linux<br>
<br>
[Problem Description]<br>
We are looking at buying motherboards based on the Intel 2011
pinout, for use with<br>
linux.. You use UEFI. Do you provide a way to disable secure boot to
enable us to<br>
boot any linux or other operating system of our choice? How do you
implement this?<br>
<br>
With thanks,<br>
Tony Blackwell<br>
Medical Multimedia<br>
<br>
<br>
And a further response from ASUS:<br>
<br>
Dear Valued Customer,<br>
Unfortunately, UEFI bios can not turn off.<br>
But it doesn't matter what OS you wan to isntall .<br>
Best Regards,<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
---------- Original Message ----------<br>
From : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tablackwell@bigpond.com">tablackwell@bigpond.com</a><br>
Sent : 2012-4-23 7:02:17<br>
To : <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tsd@asus.com.tw">"tsd@asus.com.tw"</a><br>
Subject : Re:Re:<TSD> Motherboard SABERTOOTH X79
[ID=RWTM20120422197363025-780]<br>
<br>
[CASEID=WTM2012042315107754]<br>
<br>
Dear Andrew,<br>
Thankyou for the prompt reply. Unfortunately you didn't answer my
question about<br>
UEFI at all.<br>
I am asking about _all_ your Intel 2011 pin-out boards.<br>
I ask again, does your UEFI have a way to turn off secure boot?
Alternatively, have you<br>
set it up so it will only boot Microsoft software?<br>
Do you have any Intel 2011 boards with a UEFI where the user can
turn off secure<br>
boot? Which models?<br>
Thanks for your time<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
2. From Gigabyte:<br>
My question and their answer is at:<br>
<font color="#0000ff"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/gtsemail.asp?UserEmail=tablackwell@bigpond.com&EmailID=1212853&EmailPreviousID=1212853&OpenEmail=Y&LanguageID=1">http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/gtsemail.asp?UserEmail=tablackwell@bigpond.com&EmailID=1212853&EmailPreviousID=1212853&OpenEmail=Y&LanguageID=1</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
3. See relevant lwn discussion:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/510764/#Comments">http://lwn.net/Articles/510764/#Comments</a><br>
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