<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I can't pretend to know how to solve this but I have certainly heard quite a lot about it in podcasts. As I understand it The Linux Foundation(TLF) is trying to bring about an easy way to solve this UEFI debacle. Although there is a regulatory body involved it seems that Microsoft has a hand in it and it appears that they are taking their time over it.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The idea is that TLF will have a key that can be used on all Linux distributions. The last I heard about the progress of this was back in November. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span>The advice, in the meantime, is to disable the UEFI, which, afaik, means a physical configuration on the motherboard - if the motherboard concerned has the facility to disable it.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Canonical were going to use a different method of solving this but now it is 'up in the air'. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>IMHO I don't think that Microsoft should be allowed to have any control over this - it should be left to the regulatory body, otherwise we are back to a similar situation that used to exist between BT and it's rivals before BT was split up.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Brian<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times
new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Carpenter <david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" <bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 31 December 2012, 16:16<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bradford] Fwd: How to get windows8 of a laptop and put linux on! - Mike Hawkridge<br> </font> </div> <br>Hi. Can anyone offer advice to Michael below.<br><br>Sorry this has taken a while to get posted Michael - holidays!<br><br>Cheers<br>David<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Michael Hawkridge <<a ymailto="mailto:guanohawk@gmail.com" href="mailto:guanohawk@gmail.com">guanohawk@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 28 December 2012 10:03<br>Subject: How to
get windows8 of a laptop and put linux on! - Mike Hawkridge<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:admin@bradlug.co.uk" href="mailto:admin@bradlug.co.uk">admin@bradlug.co.uk</a><br><br><br>I'm a member of Bradlug but I've only just registered with facebook as<br>no one seems to use the forum anymore. I bought a Fujitsu LifeBook<br>with Win8 on it for my daughter in law and of course should have<br>realized that the thing has the bloody security protected Uefi boot<br>loader on it. I need help and am prepared to pay for time and trouble.<br>Mike.<br><br>On 28 December 2012 10:03, Michael Hawkridge <<a ymailto="mailto:guanohawk@gmail.com" href="mailto:guanohawk@gmail.com">guanohawk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm a member of Bradlug but I've only just registered with facebook as no<br>> one seems to use the forum anymore. I bought a Fujitsu LifeBook with Win8<br>> on it for my daughter in law and of course should have realized that the<br>>
thing has the bloody security protected Uefi boot loader on it. I need help<br>> and am prepared to pay for time and trouble. Mike.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bradford mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>