Thanks. I thought that might be the answer.
Unfortunately, the bios (version 1.10) will not let me disable secure boot.
Maybe an older bios will?
-----Original message-----
> From:Eero Volotinen <eero.voloti...@iki.fi>
> Sent: Tuesday 2nd January 2018 13:33
> To: Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.me>
> Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV <SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov>
> Subject: Re: EFI installation of SL 7.4
>
> enable uefi on bios and disable secure boot.
>
> Eero
>
> 2.1.2018 4.25 "Bill Maidment" <b...@maidment.me <mailto:b...@maidment.me>>
> kirjoitti:<br type="attribution" />Happy New Year everyone.
> I am now an owner of an Acer A515-51G laptop and Im trying to install SL 7.4
> in EFI mode dual boot with Win 10.
> After lots of experiments I was only able to install in legacy mode, but that
> locked me out of Win 10.
> I am trying to run mokutil, but I get an error as follows:
> mokutil --import /etc/pki/secure-boot/SECURE-BOOT-KEY-fnal-sl7-exp-2020-08-26
> EFI variables are not supported on this system
> Elsewhere, it was suggested to do modprobe efivars, but efivars does not
> appear to be available.
> Any suggestions as to what to do next?
>
> Cheers
> Bill Maidment
