[ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 04:22:05PM +0000, Michael Holmes wrote:
> On 30 October 2011 15:19, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> > ....... “My friend recently got an HP s5-1110 with Win 7 installed.
> > UEFI has prevented the installation of GRUB on this machine.
> 
> This is going to happen even if you don't have Secure Boot. UEFI and
> BIOS *do not* have compatible boot systems. You need a UEFI compatible
> bootloader like eLILO or a UEFI compatible version of GRUB - which as
> far as I know, doesn't ship with Ubuntu by default.

Actually it does (on 64-bit images), but of course that doesn't
guarantee that it will work as it's generally less well-tested at the
moment.

I agree with Alan that this is unlikely to have anything to do with
"Secure Boot".  I haven't heard of systems actually shipping yet with a
new enough version of UEFI to be affected by that, and in any case I
would be inclined to apply Occam's Razor.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]