<div dir="ltr">Following on from the secure/restricted boot theme, I came across this (free for personal use):<div><br><div><a href="http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/">http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div style>
I'm personally not interested in dual boot - I just want to boot out Windows :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>Brian</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 April 2013 22:47, Brian A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" target="_blank">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'll take a look at Novatech, thanks.<div>I'm looking for a non-glossy screen. It seems that the majority of laptops are glossy, which reduces the choice available.</div>
<div>Samsung have some good spec machines at very good prices but, as you may have read in the Amazon review, switching off 'secure boot' didn't appear to be an option. I have read, though, that 'secure boot' can be called, for example, 'legacy' amongst other things - so maybe it is switchable but doesn't appear to be unless you know the jargon.</div>
<div>Anyway, I've not heard back from Samsung. I will prod them again if they don't reply. If I don't get a satisfactory response I'll assume that they really have limited their laptops to Windows.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<div><br></div><div>Brian</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 April 2013 15:48, David Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk" target="_blank">david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">When John and I were wrestling with his laptop (compaq I think) it was<br>
possible to turn secure boot off in the bios. At that stage I believe<br>
it would then be possible to boot from a linux CD.<br>
<br>
We tried to dual boot, keeping Windows on the machine. We used linux<br>
secure remix, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/linux-secure/wiki/Home/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/p/linux-secure/wiki/Home/</a> to do<br>
this. It did work, but wasn't easy, and John has to hold down F9 and<br>
choose a boot option to get Linux.<br>
<br>
I'm sure you would be able to find a machine with no operating system<br>
on. Maybe that's an option.<br>
<br>
My last two laptops have come via <a href="http://www.novatech.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.novatech.co.uk</a>, without<br>
an OS, and (I think) pretty good linux compatible hardware - (but I'm<br>
no expert on this -I do have NVIDIA GFORCE video card, which I think<br>
might be a bit of a problem if you wanted e.g. an entirely free OS to<br>
work)<br>
<br>
Richard Bruce supplied them - he's a font of much knowledge!<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<span><font color="#888888">David<br>
</font></span><div><div><br>
On 29 March 2013 08:40, Michael Dorrington <<a href="mailto:michael.dorrington@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.dorrington@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 29/03/13 08:26, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Brian A <<a href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" target="_blank">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> <snip><br>
>><br>
>>> Microsoft is not know for shirking when it comes to 'evil'. Who knows, but<br>
>>> they could lean on hardware providers to get them to make the installation<br>
>>> of other operating systems very hard/impossible to do.<br>
>><br>
>> Know your enemy :-)<br>
>><br>
>> M$ is not the primary driver behind this technology. Big Media is.<br>
><br>
> There are a couple of FSF related campaigns, they both have petitions<br>
> you can sign:<br>
><br>
> Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb<br>
> <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/we-dont-want-the-hollyweb" target="_blank">http://www.defectivebydesign.org/we-dont-want-the-hollyweb</a><br>
><br>
> Will your computer's "Secure Boot" turn out to be "Restricted Boot"?<br>
> <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot</a><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Mike.<br>
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