diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120814/b3e0f326/attachment.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120814/b3e0f326/attachment.html | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120814/b3e0f326/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120814/b3e0f326/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2939032b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120814/b3e0f326/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:55 AM, David W. Hodgins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidwhodgins@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidwhodgins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:07:07 -0400, Maurice Batey <<a href="mailto:maurice@bcs.org.uk" target="_blank">maurice@bcs.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br> +<br> +<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:40:20 +1000, Tony Blackwell wrote:<br> +<br> +<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +Unfortunately, UEFI bios can not turn off.<br> +</blockquote> +<br> + I had the same non-reply from a UK PC assembler (which uses ASUS<br> +MB's).<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br>How can you know before buying the PC whether it has UEFI? Is it mentioned somewhere? I thought about asking the selling person, but chances are that he/she will have no clue about what UEFI is, and will invent the answer.<br> +<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> + +<br> + They don't seem aware of Secure Boot, and assume you want to turn<br> +UEFI itself off, which is nonsense.<br> +<br> +<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +But it doesn't matter what OS you wan to isntall .<br> +</blockquote> +<br> + Which seems to suggest Secure Boot *can* be disabled!<br> +</blockquote> +<br></div></div> +I've recently bought an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, which is a uefi<br> +motherboard.<br> +<br> +Secure boot cannot be ENabled. There is no such option yet<br> +in the existing ASUS motherboards, hence the support staff<br> +don't have a clue what is being asked.<br> +<br> +Regards, Dave Hodgins<br> +</blockquote></div><br> |