linux and secure boot, u e f i

[kendell clark]

hi Linux already works very well with UEFI, including sonar. Secure boot
is more complicated. We are supposed to be able to easily work with
secure boot by having a signed boot loader stub, which basically means a
boot loader signed with microsoft's key which will trick the firmware
into thinking it's booting windows, which will then load grub or
isolinux, which will then load linux. I don't know if this works because
I don't ahve any computers with secure boot enabled but both my desktop
I'm typing this on and my mac run uefi, although the mac runs an older
version called efi, which is uefi's predecessor. If this doesn't work,
I'd like to know about it so I can fix it.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Daniel Crone wrote:
> If one gets a new computer these days, it could have windows 8 or 10.
> If so, it would use u e f i, and secure boot would probably be enabled.
> Might any form of linux work with this situation, or would secure boot need to be turned off?
> My concern is that a totally blind user would not be able to turn this off.