I had this same problem on an Acer laptop until I discovered you need to enter a password and enable the password.
When you are finished disabling things, you can then disable the password. Peter > > > Hello LenThank you for your help.In at least 3 computers I have come > across, that has this option grayed out. As shown in pic1 of that link you > supplied. So it is not accessible. Every link I came across, basicly had > the same solution you described. There for those three computers can not > have a true format done. All three have corrupted hinden partions. Putting > a new hard drive will not help either. New mother boards would > help.Cheers Abby > > > Sent from my Samsung device > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> > Date: 08-11-2015 10:25 (GMT-05:00) > To: GTALUG Talk <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GTALUG] UEFI bios/firmware > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:39:02AM +0200, Abby Bassie-Cripps wrote: >> <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: >> 12.0px;"><div> >> <div>Hello Len</div> >> >> <div> </div> >> >> <div>That was very informative, thank you.</div> >> >> <div> </div> >> >> <div>For an update, the main computer is question is a toshiba satellite >> with win 8.1. In this once case, I could not find any default to unlock >> the secure boot.</div> >> >> <div>In addition, all of the computers that have come my way with UEFI, >> are windows 8 & 8.1 and are all secure in some form or another. I >> know have three computers that where given to me because of the UEFI / >> secure boot issue. I have never come across a computer that used UEFI >> and was not secure booted. All other computers I have worked on, have >> been using bios.</div> >> >> <div>Seperately, I have what was a $1400 laptop that came with win. >> 7. It had UEFI, but was the only computer not using secure boot. I have >> since put 8.1 and now 10 on it and it works better than 7, using UEFI. >> Its secure boot was apart of the UEFI. Hense my mis-understanding.</div> >> >> <div> >> <div>For the group, I perfer Ubuntu and now my iMac with OS X 10.10.4. >> There is so little issues with both, compared to windows OS.</div> >> >> <div> </div> >> >> <div>So Len, are you able to tell me what the steps should be to disable >> the secure boot in windows 8 & 8.1? Other than the simple out dated >> method that we all know about?</div> > > Well from what I can find the process is: > > When you see Toshiba logo, hit F2, then you should be in the UEFI (BIOS) > settings. > > Under security tab there should be an option for 'secure boot' which > you want to set to disabled. If you want to keep windows working, > that should be all you change, and then you should be able to install > linux as long as the distribution is new enough to support UEFI booting. > If you don't want to keep windows and you want to use an older style > distribution that does not do UEFI booting, then you have to also find > the "CSM boot" setting (under advanced/system settings) and turn that on. > That will break booting windows 8.1 on the machine though. I would > personally stick with UEFI booting these days. > > https://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB2B03F30002R01.htm > > -- > Len Sorensen > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325 --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
