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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot</H1>
    <B>David W. Hodgins</B> 
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    <I>Tue Aug 14 00:55:17 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:07:07 -0400, Maurice Batey &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">maurice at bcs.org.uk</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:40:20 +1000, Tony Blackwell wrote:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Unfortunately, UEFI bios can not turn off.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>   I had the same non-reply from a UK PC assembler (which uses ASUS
</I>&gt;<i> MB's).
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</I>&gt;<i>   They don't seem aware of Secure Boot, and assume you want to turn
</I>&gt;<i> UEFI itself off, which is nonsense.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> But it doesn't matter what OS you wan to isntall .
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</I>&gt;<i>   Which seems to suggest Secure Boot *can* be disabled!
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I've recently bought an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, which is a uefi
motherboard.

Secure boot cannot be ENabled. There is no such option yet
in the existing ASUS motherboards, hence the support staff
don't have a clue what is being asked.

Regards, Dave Hodgins
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