Re: [Nix-dev] [nixos] The necessity of UEFI Secure Boot

2014-05-27 Thread Kirill Elagin
In short: all the bootloaders are signed by Microsoft. At least in “mainstream” distributions. UEFI is definitely a cool thing. But there are decisions to be made before implementing its support in a distribution. So, yeah, I hope the discussion will be started. As a first step, NixOS can

Re: [Nix-dev] [nixos] The necessity of UEFI Secure Boot

2014-05-26 Thread Wout Mertens
So grub doesn’t work? I thought it did? I saw that the Surface Pro 3 is a Secure Booting UEFI device... It would make a nice NixOS laptop :-) Also, the Ubuntu boot loader is apparently signed by Microsoft. Just random thoughts sorry. Wout. On May 26, 2014 2:44 PM, Third3ye tredje...@gmail.com