Re: linux and secure boot, u e f i

2016-03-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
<quirky.wiz...@gmx.com> 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

Re: linux and secure boot, u e f i

2016-03-31 Thread kendell clark
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

linux and secure boot, u e f i

2016-03-31 Thread Daniel Crone
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