Have you run into any systems that are in violation of the Secure Boot
requirements that mandate that Secure Boot can be disabled?

(I'm not addressing the issues with an already installed system that was
installed Secure Boot)

I've only had to deal with the Nvidia signed driver thing once so far.  As I
recall it was one of those answer a string of questions right things, and if
you mess up one of them the house of cards collapses and you have to start
the OS install all over again.

I particularly like the systems where when you disable Secure Boot in BIOS,
the operating system install sees it then installs the OS secure boot anyway
- so you then are forced to re-enable it in BIOS to get the system to boot.
Much common sense when into THAT one, :-/

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Loren M. Lang
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026 7:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; PLUG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Speaker for May General Meeting?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 07:08:39PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So it looks like Jesse, our planned speaker for last month is not 
> going to be available for May either, so I am short one speaker. 
> Someone, whose name I don't remember or perhaps never caught, talked 
> to me at prior PLUG meetings about being willing to talk and had at least
one subject in mind.
> If this sounds like you, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH at your earliest 
> convenience, because it looks like we need you for May 7th.

I believe that was me. The topic I was proposing was Secure Boot and how to
deal with the upcoming certificate updates that are going to be required
when the old Microsoft CA expires in June. Many systems will need this
update.

I am hoping to go into the details of both installing your own certificates
if you don't want to use the Microsoft certificates and how to deal with the
Microsoft CA when you need to such as fulling the IT requirements for your
employeer when you want to run Linux as your main operating system. I've had
to deal with that to get my primary work laptop dual-boot enabled and with
working Nvidia drivers that needed to be signed with a MOK.

I will mark down May 7th on my calendar for that.

Cheers,
Loren
K7IW

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