[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[David Carpenter]

When John and I were wrestling with his laptop (compaq I think) it was
possible to turn secure boot off in the bios. At that stage I believe
it would then be possible to boot from a linux CD.

We tried to dual boot, keeping  Windows on the machine. We used linux
secure remix, http://sourceforge.net/p/linux-secure/wiki/Home/ to do
this. It did work, but wasn't easy, and John has to hold down F9 and
choose a boot option to get Linux.

I'm sure you would be able to find a machine with no operating system
on. Maybe that's an option.

My last two laptops have come via http://www.novatech.co.uk, without
an OS, and (I think) pretty good linux compatible hardware - (but I'm
no expert on this -I do have NVIDIA GFORCE video card, which I think
might be a bit of a problem if you wanted e.g. an entirely free OS to
work)

Richard Bruce supplied them - he's a font of much knowledge!

Cheers
David

On 29 March 2013 08:40, Michael Dorrington <michael.dorrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/03/13 08:26, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Brian A <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Microsoft is not know for shirking when it comes to 'evil'. Who knows, but
>>> they could lean on  hardware providers to get them to make the installation
>>> of other operating systems very hard/impossible to do.
>>
>> Know your enemy :-)
>>
>> M$ is not the primary driver behind this technology. Big Media is.
>
> There are a couple of FSF related campaigns, they both have petitions
> you can sign:
>
> Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb
> http://www.defectivebydesign.org/we-dont-want-the-hollyweb
>
> Will your computer's "Secure Boot" turn out to be "Restricted Boot"?
> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
>
> Regards,
> Mike.
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