Re: Debian release tea party
Philip Charles <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 06 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > 'In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and > booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no > support for "Secure Boot" yet.' I know that is what Debian has said, but I have a Wheezy/Win 8 dual boot machine. How can this be if Wheezy does not support secure boot? Brain wave!? The Linux Foundation has developed a loader that will load a Linux system onto a secure boot machine. But this loader buypasses all the protections offered by secure boot and the installed system is just as exposed as if it were running with the trad bios. Initially the installation has to be ok'ed by a present user, but once the initial permission has been given then subsiquent boots can be automated. I wonder if Debian is using 'secure boot' in the sense of an install system protected by secure boot. Must check. Phil. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [email protected] - personal. [email protected] - business _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/