[Bradford] Fwd: How to get windows8 of a laptop and put linux on! - Mike Hawkridge

[Brian]

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.
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. 

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.
Canonical were going to use a different method of solving this but now it is 'up in the air'. 
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.

Brian







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 From: David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
To: "bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk" <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 16:16
Subject: [Bradford] Fwd: How to get windows8 of a laptop and put linux on! - Mike Hawkridge
 
Hi. Can anyone offer advice to Michael below.

Sorry this has taken a while to get posted Michael - holidays!

Cheers
David

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Hawkridge <guanohawk at gmail.com>
Date: 28 December 2012 10:03
Subject: How to get windows8 of a laptop and put linux on! - Mike Hawkridge
To: admin at bradlug.co.uk


I'm a member of Bradlug but I've only just registered with facebook as
no one seems to use the forum anymore. I bought a Fujitsu LifeBook
with Win8 on it for my daughter in law and of course should have
realized that the thing has the bloody security protected Uefi boot
loader on it. I need help and am prepared to pay for time and trouble.
Mike.

On 28 December 2012 10:03, Michael Hawkridge <guanohawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a member of Bradlug but I've only just registered with facebook as no
> one seems to use the forum anymore. I bought a Fujitsu LifeBook  with Win8
> on it for my daughter in law and of course should have realized that the
> thing has the bloody security protected Uefi boot loader on it. I need help
> and am prepared to pay for time and trouble. Mike.

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