On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:33:40PM +1100 Chris Samuel said:
On 13/12/12 15:16, Sam Varghese wrote:
No. A Linux distro that can boot on a PC/laptop that has secure boot enabled would necessarily have obtained a key from Microsoft. That would enable it to boot. Note that I said "you cannot install..." You can very definitely boot Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit on a PC/laptop on which secure boot is enabled.
Note that not all flavours of Ubuntu support secure boot at present:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuServer#QuantalQuet...
I'm aware of that. For the average Joe/Jane Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit only refers to one flavour.
Fedora 18 is planned to support secure boot when it (finally) appears, and Matthew Garrett finally has an MS signed copy of shim which any distribution can use to set up secure boot support for their distro.
Aware of this one too: http://tinyurl.com/cd743ou This solution is for geeks, not your average individual who wants to drop a CD in and have a look. It's meant to help out the smaller distros which have few developers and certainly no time to walk through the Microsoft bureaucracy [1]. Sam --- (Sam Varghese) [1] http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/adventures-in-microsoft-uefi-signing/