October 14, 201114 yr I don't have the wherewithal to test this. Has anyone else?ZDNet story here. If true, then non-Microsoft multibooters may want to reconsider...
October 14, 201114 yr Not many people may have their hands on the required hardware as most motherboard doesn't even support uefi booting right now. Also i don't see how oems could completly look out users from modding the bios as it already exist for many motherboards.
October 14, 201114 yr simply read hardware tests before you buy new PCs and check if the OEM includes an option to disable the "secure boot" option. If not, simply don't buy such products and buy other hardware which give you the choice to disable "secure boot".
October 17, 201114 yr Its too early to tell about this. The Dev Preview didn't have anything to build a system like that.
October 21, 201114 yr Even if this happens, I guess major Linux distros (Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE etc...) will be able to get boot keys. But smaller community-backed distros probably won't.
October 21, 201114 yr but GRUB is GPL and so the key must be made public and malware can use it, too. So secure boot is useless.
October 28, 201114 yr Here is some more info about Secure Boot with UEFI.http://www.msfn.org/_/software/linux-foundation-releases-blueprint-for-uefi-secure-boot-r8848
October 28, 201114 yr the link doesn't work.This one should do anyway :http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-Foundation-releases-blueprint-for-UEFI-Secure-Boot-1368401.htmlhttps://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/making-uefi-secure-boot-work-with-open-platformsjaclaz
October 31, 201114 yr the link doesn't work.It works for me... Its just a link to the MSFN frontpage...
November 1, 201114 yr Anyways, everything I'm seeing isn't really being done by Microsoft. Microsoft has a plan to use UEFI with the next OS, but has largely left it up to the board/BIOS manufacturers to figure out how to do it. As you can imagine, not everyone is on board (no pun intended) with this plan. Many of the smaller integrators like Pegatron, Gammatech, AOpen, etc have no plans for such things (or seem oblivious to the idea) so if they end up going the way of UEFI and SecureBoot, it would be done by someone else in the chain, such as the BIOS manufacturers.
November 2, 201114 yr Proactive anxiety in not a good frame-of-mind, IMHO. Let's wait and see whether there is a problem, before setting on solving it.Or, as we say here in Brazil: "Tomorrow we'll think about it!".
November 2, 201114 yr Or, as we say here in Brazil: "Tomorrow we'll think about it!". I like it I like to think the people who are building this system aren't completely incompetent and have thought of basic issues like dual booting. Either ways, you should still be able to boot from a plain old BIOS (Win8 or otherwise).
November 2, 201114 yr this makes me curious, if MS got this idea from Sony' PS3' OtherOS removal fiascos ...
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