Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 15:13 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Hi, > I filed bug 1155274, > sorry, I thought by putting Grub into the Whitelist the problem would be > solved. > Kind Regards It's 'solved' so far as you're concerned - now you have the magic recipe to make it work for you - but pjones w

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-21 Thread Joerg Lechner
.) -Ursprüngliche Mitteilung- Von: Peter Jones An: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases Verschickt: Di, 21 Okt 2014 6:54 pm Betreff: Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:44:49AM -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Hi, > I have had now

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 06:44:49AM -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Hi, > I have had now a more detailed look into the Bios menues - I am really > a no expert in things like Bios. There is in case of my Acer E15 > E5-571G a button "Security" leading to "Select an UEFI file as trusted > for executing"

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-21 Thread Joerg Lechner
bx64.efi" etc. Now F21 on an USB drive can be run in UEFI mode. Thank You to all who gave helpful advices ! Kind Regards -Ursprüngliche Mitteilung- Von: Adam Williamson An: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases Verschickt: Di, 21 Okt 2014 3:22 am Betreff:

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/20/2014 06:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Fedora images should generally boot with SB enabled, but it may be we don't have 21 images signed yet, I'll have to check in with pjones. I used the F21 beta installer to install F20 on a couple of EFI laptops with secure boot enabled. Are the fil

Re: Re:RE: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 08:11 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Hi, > this problem is solved, F21 TC3 Workstation x86_64 and also Win 8.1 now boot > in UEFI Mode, Secure Mode disabled. There had to be set a Supervisor Password > in the Bios, > to disable the Secure Mode (found this in a thread of an Ac

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 19, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Nevertheless it would be nice to boot Linux and Windows in Secure Mode. > a.) Make sure the firmware is current. b.) Enabled Secure Boot again c.) Boot the Fedora install image from USB stick created using either dd or livecd-iso-to-disk (pa

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 19, 2014, at 1:15 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Possibly I have to find a way to disable the Secure Boot. This is a bad idea for testing Fedora. We really need this to work correctly. If people keep disabling Secure Boot as a work around, then we aren't going to to improve Fedora's Secur

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 18, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Joerg Lechner wrote: > - On 10/18/2014 07:45 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: > - > "totally" shut down, no freezing mode. Tried to run F21 in Bios UEFI > - > mode, installation of F21 Workstation Beta TC3 X86-64 on the external > - > disk successful, but on boot of F21 fro

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 18, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: > Hi, > so far I could only run F21 in Legacy Mode of BIOS (Acer Aspire E15 Laptop, I > think more or less designed for Windows 8.1) F21 on an external disk via USB. > Because of problems F21 - Windows 8.1 (stayed in freezing mode after shutdo

Re:RE: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-19 Thread Joerg Lechner
Windows in Secure Mode. Thank You to Samuel for his advices. Kind Regards -Ursprüngliche Mitteilung- Von: Joerg Lechner An: test Verschickt: So, 19 Okt 2014 11:11 am Betreff: RE: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode - On Sun Oct 19 07:03:30 UTC 2014 Samuel Sieb wrote - Please reply to

RE: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-19 Thread Joerg Lechner
- On Sun Oct 19 07:03:30 UTC 2014 Samuel Sieb wrote - Please reply to the previous message instead of creating a new one so - the conversation stays threaded. Currently I don't get the messages from the testlist, I had to copy from the Archive. sorry. - On 10/18/2014 10:15 PM, Joerg Lechner wro

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
Please reply to the previous message instead of creating a new one so the conversation stays threaded. On 10/18/2014 10:15 PM, Joerg Lechner wrote: Hi Samuel, I hit the F12 button then I got the menue: 1) USB HDD: Samsung SP.. -> the external disk with F21 on it 2) Windows Boot Ma

Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-18 Thread Joerg Lechner
Hi Samuel, I hit the F12 button then I got the menue: 1) USB HDD: Samsung SP.. -> the external disk with F21 on it 2) Windows Boot Manager .. But also choosing USB HDD in this menue results in the same error message. In a Fedora Forum I found a thread describing the same problem f

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/18/2014 02:29 PM, Joerg Lechner wrote: Computer is started in UEFI mode. After running through the UEFI bios, I get a boot menue (I think it is the Grub2 boot menue ?). But there is no difference choosing in this boot menue: Fedora, with Linux 3.17.0-301.fc21.x86_64 or Fedora, L

Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-18 Thread Joerg Lechner
- On 10/18/2014 07:45 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: - > "totally" shut down, no freezing mode. Tried to run F21 in Bios UEFI - > mode, installation of F21 Workstation Beta TC3 X86-64 on the external - > disk successful, but on boot of F21 from the external disk there is the - > error message "Boot Load

Re: Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/18/2014 07:45 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: "totally" shut down, no freezing mode. Tried to run F21 in Bios UEFI mode, installation of F21 Workstation Beta TC3 X86-64 on the external disk successful, but on boot of F21 from the external disk there is the error message "Boot Loader has not verif

Windows 8.1 and F21, BIOS in UEFI Mode

2014-10-18 Thread Joerg Lechner
Hi, so far I could only run F21 in Legacy Mode of BIOS (Acer Aspire E15 Laptop, I think more or less designed for Windows 8.1) F21 on an external disk via USB. Because of problems F21 - Windows 8.1 (stayed in freezing mode after shutdown - a hint from Kamil and Chuck), now I shut down Windows in