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
>