submix8c Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 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...
allen2 Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 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.
MagicAndre1981 Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 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".
Tripredacus Posted October 17, 2011 Posted October 17, 2011 Its too early to tell about this. The Dev Preview didn't have anything to build a system like that.
endlessness Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 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.
MagicAndre1981 Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 but GRUB is GPL and so the key must be made public and malware can use it, too. So secure boot is useless.
Tripredacus Posted October 28, 2011 Posted October 28, 2011 Here is some more info about Secure Boot with UEFI.http://www.msfn.org/_/software/linux-foundation-releases-blueprint-for-uefi-secure-boot-r8848
jaclaz Posted October 28, 2011 Posted October 28, 2011 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
Tripredacus Posted October 31, 2011 Posted October 31, 2011 the link doesn't work.It works for me... Its just a link to the MSFN frontpage...
MagicAndre1981 Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 today it works. Maybe at thew time you linked it the post was not published.
Tripredacus Posted November 1, 2011 Posted November 1, 2011 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.
dencorso Posted November 2, 2011 Posted November 2, 2011 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!".
CoffeeFiend Posted November 2, 2011 Posted November 2, 2011 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).
Joseph_sw Posted November 2, 2011 Posted November 2, 2011 this makes me curious, if MS got this idea from Sony' PS3' OtherOS removal fiascos ...
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