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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot</H1>
    <B>Anne Wilson</B> 
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    <I>Tue Aug 14 16:48:08 CEST 2012</I>
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On 14/08/12 12:45, Maurice Batey wrote:
&gt;<i> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:27:32 +0200, Alejandro L&#243;pez wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> How can you know before buying the PC whether it has UEFI? Is it
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> mentioned somewhere? I thought about asking the selling person,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> but chances are that he/she will have no clue about what UEFI is,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and will invent the answer.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> In my case, by obtaining confirmation beforehand.
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</I>&gt;<i> If they don't know (or if they do know but cannot confirm a
</I>&gt;<i> 'Disable Secure Boot' option is available) , I don't buy, and
</I>&gt;<i> explain why.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>While I consider that a sensible rule generally, I don't in this case.
 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.  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.

Anne
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