Re: linux and secure boot, u e f i
Which is why a totally blind user need be present at sale and as a condition of sale see to it secure boot gets disabled before purchase and verify secure boot was disabled before purchase. On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote: Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 09:12:04 From: Daniel Crone To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: linux and secure boot, u e f i If one gets a new computer these days, it could have windows 8 or 10. If so, it would use u e f i, and secure boot would probably be enabled. Might any form of linux work with this situation, or would secure boot need to be turned off? My concern is that a totally blind user would not be able to turn this off. -- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: linux and secure boot, u e f i
hi Linux already works very well with UEFI, including sonar. Secure boot is more complicated. We are supposed to be able to easily work with secure boot by having a signed boot loader stub, which basically means a boot loader signed with microsoft's key which will trick the firmware into thinking it's booting windows, which will then load grub or isolinux, which will then load linux. I don't know if this works because I don't ahve any computers with secure boot enabled but both my desktop I'm typing this on and my mac run uefi, although the mac runs an older version called efi, which is uefi's predecessor. If this doesn't work, I'd like to know about it so I can fix it. Thanks Kendell Clark Daniel Crone wrote: > If one gets a new computer these days, it could have windows 8 or 10. > If so, it would use u e f i, and secure boot would probably be enabled. > Might any form of linux work with this situation, or would secure boot need > to be turned off? > My concern is that a totally blind user would not be able to turn this off. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
linux and secure boot, u e f i
If one gets a new computer these days, it could have windows 8 or 10. If so, it would use u e f i, and secure boot would probably be enabled. Might any form of linux work with this situation, or would secure boot need to be turned off? My concern is that a totally blind user would not be able to turn this off. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
