Having started this thread I have enough of a solution after reading all the various threads. If I want to run Mint 15 I just go into the bios and change boot priority to legacy and for windows I use ufei. Works until something better comes along. Thanks alot for the info. Jim
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Some Linux distributions offer keyed kernels. Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise > Linux I believe. That does not mean any Linux kernel can use secure boot > though. I have not heard that UEFI was made by any mandate of the US > government either. EFI was made by a consortium of corporations, including > Intel, and some other big names, then extended by Microsoft into UEFI. > > > Whatever the motives were the end result has been greater difficulty in > getting Linux to run on machines that have UEFI. Not running Windows at all > UEFI does me absolutely no good whatsoever. The next time I am shopping > around for a new system I will be looking for non-UEFI alternatives for > myself too. I probably won't run x86 architecture at all, but will go with > something ARM based. In time I can see ARM being the dominant platform for > running Linux on. > > > > > --- In [email protected], <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Here is another with some plain good old plenty of plain talk > information. loosely from what memory recalls as I have been following this > but not lately, is that Linux finally came up with the Secure Key route. > The way toattack this task of dual boot Linux and Windows 8 is to go to the > Windows side of the aisle. Simply, and beyond a lot of misinformation and > disinformation and said to say from the linux side is that NO monopoly was > created by Microsoft on computers with the secure boot Windows 8. They have > been up once in the 1980s for that. They are NOT up for that now at this > late date and would have been if they were guilty – believe it as mad as > the Linux side became. So all it is to set up things is simply entering a > secure key yourself in Windows 8 to be able to run Linux dual boot. You > have to set up Windows to install Linux and NOT the other way around. > > LINK > If I Buy a Computer with Windows 8 and Secure Boot Can I Still Install > Linux? > > http://www.howtogeek.com/149254/if-i-buy-a-computer-with-windows-8-and-secure-boot-can-i-still-install-linux/ > > As well I remember the article I was reading that actually the USA > Government required Windows to produce an anti-rootkit/bootkit lock out > technology and was the pressure to create Windows 8. I could try to find > that link buried somewhere – so this was not some NEW Micro$oft game to > mess with the public and other OSs as Linux. They were pressured by the > American Government to do so. There is also the on by default for the new > machines. > > gerald philly pa usa > > *From:* Joan Leach > *Sent:* Monday, September 9, 2013 5:29 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Windows 8 and Linux install > > > > Today's Distrowatch.com Weekly question has some info on this topic. > > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130909#qa > > Joan in Reno > > > > >
