[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

Tue Aug 14 17:43:22 CEST 2012

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:48:08 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
+
+> I don't want to disable secure boot for windows - I want to be able
+> to dual-boot knowing that windows is as secure as it can be. 
+
+ First and foremost I want to disable Secure Boot so that I continue to
+use my computer the way I have always used it.
+      As I have no interest in Windows 8 (which is essentially Windows
+7 with some non-desktop gimmicks tacked on), I would continue with
+using (non-UEFI) Windows 7 on one occasion each year (to compile the
+family DVD), leaving Secure Boot firmly off.
+
+Even if, eventually, I had to move on to Windows 9 or whatever with
+Secure Boot on, I would tolerate enabling Secure Boot once a year as
+before., then back to Disabled for normal life under Linux.
+
+> I'm
+> afraid that for linux distros I'll be following your rule - if it
+> doesn't give me access to suitable keys so that I can dual-boot
+> securely, I'll change my distro.
+
+  If you would be continually switching between Windows 8 and Linux
+then I would understand the reluctance to have to keep
+enabling/disabling Secure Boot to do so, and  switching to a
+distro that will load under Secure Boot (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE)
+would avoid that.
+
+I look forward to reading accounts of efforts to install Windows 8 as
+a guest on VirtualBox under Linux...
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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+
+