[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Alejandro López]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:55 AM, David W. Hodgins
<davidwhodgins at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:07:07 -0400, Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:40:20 +1000, Tony Blackwell wrote:
>>
>>  Unfortunately, UEFI bios can not turn off.
>>>
>>
>>   I had the same non-reply from a UK PC assembler (which uses ASUS
>> MB's).
>>
>
How can you know before buying the PC whether it has UEFI? Is it mentioned
somewhere? I thought about asking the selling person, but chances are that
he/she will have no clue about what UEFI is, and will invent the answer.



>>   They don't seem aware of Secure Boot, and assume you want to turn
>> UEFI itself off, which is nonsense.
>>
>>  But it doesn't matter what OS you wan to isntall .
>>>
>>
>>   Which seems to suggest Secure Boot *can* be disabled!
>>
>
> I've recently bought an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, which is a uefi
> motherboard.
>
> Secure boot cannot be ENabled. There is no such option yet
> in the existing ASUS motherboards, hence the support staff
> don't have a clue what is being asked.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>
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