Hello all,
I have been transferring an LFS system on a USB drive around various
computers and it works for all except a new laptop running Windows 8. In
that case, the BIOS (or is it UEFI?) does not read (or reads and discards)
the grub loader on the USB. There is no way to select the USB drive as a
booting option.
I have plugged in other USBs with Ubuntu and Fedora on this same laptop
and they are recognized. I think this has something to do with the new
secure boot mandate by Microsoft. The interesting thing is that in my bios
settings it is displayed as disabled. What is different about the LFS
system that the BIOS thinks can be malicious? Is it the kernel that needs
to be officially signed or the loader (GRUB)? If this is not a secure boot
issue (it does say it's disabled in bios) what else can be the problem?
It probably is irrelevant but the bios on the Windows 8 laptop is Aptio
2.16. On another laptop (windows 7) I have an earlier version of Aptio (I
think 2.06) and the USB is listed as boot option.
Any insight will be much appreciated,
Thanks
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