[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

Mon Aug 13 20:40:20 CEST 2012

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