[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Tony Blackwell]

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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