Windows 8's use of the UEFI Secure Boot

Haneef Bashir darkfena313 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 06:38:53 UTC 2011


You could just install it into a virtual machine
On Sep 24, 2011 7:37 AM, "Sharl.Jimh.Tsin" <amoiz.shine at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2011?09?24? 01:47, Bill Stanley wrote:
>> I heard about the UEFI Secure Boot feature that might impair installing
>> an alternate OS (Linux) or prevent the use of Dual Boot. Supposedly it
>> would be a part of the motherboard hardware and prevent ANY changes to
>> the boot sector. Supposedly it would prevent root-kits as there would
>> be no way to get around it. Has anybody heard more about this and what
>> would the Ubuntu community do about this?
>>
>> Bill Stanley
>>
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> Ubuntu is my only installed OS in my hard disk,and i will not buy the
> machine related to UEFI.
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