What some fear is that some Microsoft OEM partner do a lazy job with a
minimal UEFI interface without the possibility to disable secure boot.
In that case, if secure boot block unsigned os at boot, it would be
impossible to install other os than Windows 8.
I have too often see BIOS missing lot of standard option.
Michel
Le 2011-10-01 20:36, Barbier, Jason a icrit :
Yeah, honestly Microsoft has even said already, there will be no nagging the
only feature you lose by not using secured booting is the swift boot. if you
flip
secured UEFI off it just makes windows 8 go into standard boot. fear
mongering
is not needed, and in the end if a secured boot loader is needed all some
one would
have to do is like Intel for example, get a signed cert from grub and hand
it to manufacturers
so then there is a secured open boot loader. The secured EFI is just the
same principal
as the built in boot sector virus protection.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:43 PM, john slee<indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote:
On 2 October 2011 08:03, LeviaComm Networks<n...@leviacomm.net> wrote:
First off, the UEFI boot will *not* prevent other OS's from booting, it
will
only pop up a message saying that the boot process was not secure, just
like
how you can run unsigned code and it will only pop up a box stating as
much.
It would be impossible to prevent an 'insecure' OS from booting since
that
would prevent you from booting a newer version of the Windows Installer.
Ideally UEFI would post a warning stating that the OS signature is not
on
the list and allow you to add it.
... would it? I should think that they could simply sign the new installer
with the existing keys. OTOH it's quite possible that someone will extract
the private key(s) from the hardware, too. It already happened for Apple's
Airport Express, no?
On balance, I really don't think this is worth the angst and
scaremongering.
John
