Hi Madhurjya, As I understand it Fedora paid Microsoft to register their key so Secure Boot does indeed work with Fedora. See AdamW's talk below for more info- the secure boot subject matter is near the end of the talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmoeEM_eCQo cheers, pat On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Madhurjya Roy <roymadhur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > It's not a bug! Actually, most of the laptops that come preinstalled with > Windows 8/8.1 come with secure boot. It's just a feature that is used to > verify the signature on Windows Bootloader! > > Secure Boot is not meant to verify signature of Linux bootloader (GRUB) > and I'm not sure if it comes with any! > > So, it's a Windows 8/8.1 only feature and you will have to disable it if > you want to run fedora or some other OS! Please, don't go by its name. > Disabling Secure boot will only allow other bootloaders to work and won't > compromise on any form of security! > > Net Verdict - It's a 100% secure and a recommended must to disable Secure > Boot in order to boot any NON Windows 8/8.1 OS. > > Cheers, > Madhurjya Roy > FAS : madhurjyaroy > IRC Nick (irc.freenode.net) : madhurjyaroy > ------------------------------ > From: patrick korsnick <korsn...@gmail.com> > Sent: 8/12/2014 12:08 AM > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: stock f20 bootloader not signed > > Hi all, > I just did a fresh f20 install in UEFI mode (no CSM) with secure boot > enabled and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I > get an error about the bootloader not being signed and have to disable > secure boot in order to boot the machine. I did a search on Bugzilla for > the error message and didn't find anything. Has anyone encountered this > error before? > > The machine is a HP Zbook 17 with the latest firmware (BIOS) update > installed. > > Cheers > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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