[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot (Tony Blackwell)

[Anne Wilson]

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On 12/08/12 12:28, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:49:18 +1000, Tony Blackwell wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> (See http://tinyurl.com/bwcjruu  for one that *does* appear to 
> provide 'disable Secure Boot'.)

There's still far too much guesswork on how this is going to work.
Interestingly, when I enlarged the image in that link I saw "UEFI
Secure Boot can only be activated on the MS 7800 motherboard once
administrator and user passwords have been set" - implying that it is
not set out-of-the-box.

Anne

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