RE: EFI installation of SL 7.4

[Bill Maidment]

A bit more Googling provided the answer.
There is a magic touch in Acer laptops. You have to set an administrator 
password in the bios before you are allowed to disable secure boot.
I can now dual boot (using the windows boot manager). The rest should be plain 
sailing now.
Cheers
Bill
 
-Original message-
> From:Eero Volotinen <eero.voloti...@iki.fi>
> Sent: Tuesday 2nd January 2018 15:21
> 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
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:eero.voloti...@iki.fi>>
 
> > Sent: Tuesday 2nd January 2018 13:33
 
> > To: Bill Maidment <b...@maidment.me <mailto:b...@maidment.me>>
 
> > Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV 
> > <mailto:SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV> <SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov 
> > <mailto: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> 
> > <mailto:b...@maidment.me <mailto:b...@maidment.me>>> kirjoitti: > 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
 
> 
 
> 

RE: EFI installation of SL 7.4

[Eero Volotinen]

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: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

Re: EFI installation of SL 7.4

[Eero Volotinen]

enable uefi on bios and disable secure boot.

Eero

2.1.2018 4.25 "Bill Maidment"  kirjoitti:

> Happy New Year everyone.
> I am now an owner of an Acer A515-51G laptop and I'm 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
>

EFI installation of SL 7.4

[Bill Maidment]

Happy New Year everyone.
I am now an owner of an Acer A515-51G laptop and I'm 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