I have never seen hardware without possibility to disable secureboot. UBuntu works with secureboot. try it first?
Eero 2.1.2018 5.20 "Bill Maidment" <b...@maidment.me> kirjoitti: 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