Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers
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In the best of all possible worlds, Microsoft and its partners would implement Secure Boot in the ways that the Linux Foundation says would work with Linux. Well, that's not going to happen. So, instead we have three different paths. At this point, there's no telling which one is going to work out. In fact, we may end up using all of them. [ITworld]
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In the best of all possible worlds, Microsoft and its partners would implement Secure Boot in the ways that the Linux Foundation says would work with Linux. Well, that's not going to happen. So, instead we have three different paths. At this point, there's no telling which one is going to work out. In fact, we may end up using all of them. [ITworld]
I am not getting it. Last time I checked, Windows 8 bcdedit still had the bootsect option, so it must be trivial to double boot any Linux, especially if it uses GRUB. If you want to have only Linux and boot it securely, you have to move your a... and adopt to the new technology. Windows 8 or Microsoft has proofed that UIEF Secure Boot is working OK, nothing else. Just use it. If you want to take a machine that somebody have build to run Windows and install Linux on it, then you may have problems, but I do not care since you just should not do that. All this UEFI buzz resembles Start Screen buzz and both resemble orchestrated media bashing.
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In the best of all possible worlds, Microsoft and its partners would implement Secure Boot in the ways that the Linux Foundation says would work with Linux. Well, that's not going to happen. So, instead we have three different paths. At this point, there's no telling which one is going to work out. In fact, we may end up using all of them. [ITworld]
atbennett wrote:
Microsoft and its partners would implement Secure Boot
Microsoft only says that Secure Boot has to be enabled for Windows 8 systems. They're not legally allowed to tell OEMs (Dell, HP, etc.) that they *cannot* put a Linux certificate in the UEFI implementation. That said, Microsoft is under no legal obligation to tell OEMs that they MUST support Linux in the UEFI. At least they're not in the US, the EU/EC may be another matter but won't be decided until after Windows 8 systems are generally available in the EU, and even then, it's the OEMs, not Microsoft that does the implementation.
Mike Poz