[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

Sat Aug 11 20:18:02 CEST 2012

On 08/11/2012 01:02 PM, Tony Blackwell wrote:
+> An issue now in buying new hardware.  SUSE seem to have come up with a
+> useful approach.
+
+
+Personally, as things stand as it is, I'd opt for disabling secure boot 
+and if Windows 8 won't boot (with disabled secure boot), so be it.
+
+While there are malwares through the boot process, its occurrence by 
+this means is insignificant and can be easily remedied if it occur. I 
+personally think this issue is overblown (by Microsoft) for obvious 
+(diabolical) reasons. I don't think we should be held ramson or play 
+along with Microsoft as Redhat (and Suse) are proposing to do. I also 
+disagree with Canonical's method where a good boot system has to be 
+jettisoned just to circumvent it.
+
+For the record, I have my own (non OS) grub2 in its own partition that 
+boots everything (including Windows and more) but in no way this affect 
+my position.
+
+I understand that for many new users, going through loops (to disable 
+secure boot) may not be feasible just to dual boot but while it can be 
+done by more experienced users, I'll just give Windows a miss if they 
+proceed with it.
+
+Darn, but I cannot transfer files from my computer to Google Nexus 
+without going through Windows (or Apple), anybody found a way to do that 
+in Linux? (OTG usb won't work in jelly bean too)
+
+Cheers - Goh Lip
+