[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[Brian A]

Following on from the secure/restricted boot theme, I came across this
(free for personal use):

http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

I'm personally not interested in dual boot - I just want to boot out
Windows :-)


Brian


On 2 April 2013 22:47, Brian A <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:

> I'll take a look at Novatech, thanks.
> I'm looking for a non-glossy screen. It seems that the majority of laptops
> are glossy, which reduces the choice available.
> 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.
> 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.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 2 April 2013 15:48, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> 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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