On 9 Sep 2021 at 14:09, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" <gnw...@gmail.com> Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 14:09:57 -0300 Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33?? To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 09:35, Michael D. Setzer II via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > [...] > From my understanding from one of the Users. They just > got 140 of these new Dell 3080 machines, and they have > no options for other than UEFI boot. The 3070 versions > of > the machines had the option to do regular boots. Could > be > a more complex process to enable it, but I'm sure he > tried > lots of things. Got a message about Lenova doing the > same, but no specifics from that user. Went to Dell site, > but there site seems to have no options unless you > provide a code number from an actual machine?? > Right now, the user is having to physically remove drives > from 3080 machine, and connect them to a 3070 > machine > to do image, and then can put the drive back?? > > It is not surprising that legacy boot is going away -- vendors > want to minimize support issues and removing "features" > that few customers use gives users one less way to break > systems and allows them to simplify the BIOS code. > > You might look at Knoppix UEFI support > <https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix-uefi-en.html > > It looks like they have automated the process of creating a "machine owner > key" (MOK) when booting. > Thanks looked at page, but will have to look into it. Not sure where one gets the hash code, and currently have 5 machines at home, but none using EFI boot, so haven't gone into setting up EFI. From a memtest web page message saw something like the office Secure Key cost like $10,000?? I don't make a dime of G4L, but it is something I enjoy. Thanks for the info. > -- > George N. White III > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
