Ubuntu on UEFI and Win 8

[Avi Greenbury]

JD wrote:
> >>>
> >>If you are using a uefi bios,
> >UEFI is not a BIOS, it is a BIOS replacement.
> In a high school literature test, a student was asked to
> write something about Homer's Iliad. The student
> had scribbled
> "....... it not written by Homer, but by another man with the same
> name ...."
> 
> I hope you get my drift :) :)

I see what you mean but I'm unconvinced that it's appropriate here.
There's already enough confusion around UEFI and secure-boot, in
particular a damaging conflation of the two. Especially in a support
list I think it's always worth aiming for correctness.

[...]

> >>On the Fedora mailing list, this issue was discussed to great lengths,
> >>sometimes with a great amount of acrimony and insults going back and forth.
> >>The thing that I remember one knowledgeable OP mention, is that if you
> >>disable the UEFI in Bios, then you can boot whatever you like,
> >>including Linux.
> >You would disable secure boot in UEFI. There is no BIOS and UEFI
> >itself has no necessity for secure-boot, it's Windows that does.
> >
> 
> My suspicion about secure boot, is that it a first foot in the door.
> Can you see that it may become a fixed feature that cannot be disabled?
> I certainly see that it is a very strong possibility.

This is, essentially, how the smartphone and tablet ecosystem 'works'.

-- 
Avi