Re: UEFI SL 6x boot

2013-09-28 Thread Yasha Karant
On 09/27/2013 08:53 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Yasha Karant mailto:ykar...@csusb.edu>> wrote: Quoting from a previous post on this subject (thread) not from me: UEFI is part of the old "Palladium" project from Microsoft, relabeled as "Trusted Comp

Re: UEFI SL 6x boot

2013-09-27 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Quoting from a previous post on this subject (thread) not from me: > > UEFI is part of the old "Palladium" project from Microsoft, relabeled as > "Trusted Computing". It is aimed squarely at DRM and vendor lock-in, not > security > > End quo

Re: UEFI SL 6x boot

2013-09-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Quoting from a previous post on this subject (thread) not from me: UEFI is part of the old "Palladium" project from Microsoft, relabeled as "Trusted Computing". It is aimed squarely at DRM and vendor lock-in, not security End quote. Is the above language inflammatory? If not, how is my lang

Re: UEFI SL 6x boot

2013-09-24 Thread jdow
I don't think that's directly what has been said, Yasha. In less loaded terms it appears there are motherboard vendors who are not strictly compliant with the UEFI specification and do not allow you to turn off UEFI without using some software with Microsoft roots. They have elected to leave out,

Re: UEFI SL 6x boot

2013-09-24 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:42:32PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > A colleague who uses SuSE non-enterprise for his professional > (enterprise) workstations has now attempted to load the latest SuSE > on a machine with a new generic (aftermarket) "gamer" UEFI X86-64 > motherboard. It does not proper

UEFI SL 6x boot

2013-09-23 Thread Yasha Karant
A colleague who uses SuSE non-enterprise for his professional (enterprise) workstations has now attempted to load the latest SuSE on a machine with a new generic (aftermarket) "gamer" UEFI X86-64 motherboard. It does not properly boot. I do not have any UEFI motherboards, and thus no experie