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

[John R. Hudson]

Matthew Garrett of RedHat has released a UEFI shim but not sure whether
it will solve your problem:

https://github.com/mjg59/shim

SUSE developers are working on a more sophisticated one but AFAIK that
hasn't been released.

John
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On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 17:29 +0000, Brian wrote:
> I've just found this which I think describes the situation. I think
> they need to set the EU onto Microsoft. 
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> http://www.zdnet.com/linux-foundation-uefi-secure-boot-key-for-windows-8-pcs-delays-explained-7000007841/
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> Brian
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk>
> To: BradfordLinuxUserGroup <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
> Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 17:12
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fwd: How to get windows8 of a laptop and put
> linux on! - Mike Hawkridge
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> 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.
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> 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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