[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Alejandro López]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, David W. Hodgins
<davidwhodgins at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:27:32 -0400, Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  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.
>>
>
> The best way, in my opinion, is to find out what motherboard is in the
> system, find the user manual online, and check it out.
>
> Given the story at
> http://www.h-online.com/**security/news/item/Aldi-PC-**
> becomes-first-retail-PC-with-**UEFI-Secure-Boot-1635893.html<http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Aldi-PC-becomes-first-retail-PC-with-UEFI-Secure-Boot-1635893.html>
> at present, anything that has been on the market for more than 1 month,
> will NOT have secure boot available, let alone not be able to be disabled.
>
> So, it's only going to become a problem at some point in the future.
>


This was very isntructive. Thanks.


Alejandro.


>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>
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