On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:33:40PM +1100 Chris Samuel said: > On 13/12/12 15:16, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > No. A Linux distro that can boot on a PC/laptop that has secure boot enabled > > would necessarily have obtained a key from Microsoft. That would enable it > > to > > boot. Note that I said "you cannot install..." You can very definitely boot > > Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit on a PC/laptop on which secure boot is enabled. > > Note that not all flavours of Ubuntu support secure boot at present: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuServer#QuantalQuetzal.2BAC8-ReleaseNotes.2BAC8-CommonInfrastructure.Secure_Boot
I'm aware of that. For the average Joe/Jane Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit only refers to one flavour. > Fedora 18 is planned to support secure boot when it (finally) appears, and > Matthew Garrett finally has an MS signed copy of shim which any distribution > can use to set up secure boot support for their distro. > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html Aware of this one too: http://tinyurl.com/cd743ou This solution is for geeks, not your average individual who wants to drop a CD in and have a look. It's meant to help out the smaller distros which have few developers and certainly no time to walk through the Microsoft bureaucracy [1]. Sam --- (Sam Varghese) [1] http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/adventures-in-microsoft-uefi-signing/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
