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Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:53 pm
by fsw
Windows 8 Requires Secure Boot, May Hinder Other Software/OS:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25180/
More here:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25293
Oh well...
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:09 pm
by IdeasVacuum
I can't see it being a problem - even the current Microsoft apps would fall foul if Secure Boot could not be switched off, so it is likely that most new PCs will offer the option, not forgetting of course that by far the majority of PCs that will be running Win8 are already on people's desks - MS certainly cannot afford to miss out on that chunk of the market.
It is a surprise that BIOS will still be there - there was much talk of redundancy before.
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:26 pm
by Ramihyn_
The irrational uninformed panic about the Windows8 signed boot process is both silly and boring. There are some reasons to be worried about UEFI replacing the traditional bios though, but the tabloids didnt notice yet.
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:37 pm
by Blood
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:58 pm
by fsw
IdeasVacuum wrote:I can't see it being a problem - even the current Microsoft apps would fall foul if Secure Boot could not be switched off, so it is likely that most new PCs will offer the option, not forgetting of course that by far the majority of PCs that will be running Win8 are already on people's desks - MS certainly cannot afford to miss out on that chunk of the market.
It is a surprise that BIOS will still be there - there was much talk of redundancy before.
It is my understanding that only a OS is effected by Secure Boot and not "normal" programs...
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:00 pm
by fsw
Yeah, I'm old and slow and... allowed to do that
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:09 am
by buddymatkona
The Linux Foundation:
"Secure boot" ... offers the prospect of a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that can improve the security of many system deployments. Linux and other open operating systems will be able to take advantage of secure boot if it is implemented properly in the hardware. This document is intended to describe how the UEFI secure boot specification can be implemented to interoperate well with open systems and to avoid adversely affecting the rights of the owners of those systems while providing compliance with proprietary software vendors' requirements.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/m ... tforms.pdf
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:50 am
by Kuron
LOL, I posted a thread about it on the PB forums two days before that story:
Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:32 pm
by Blood
Yeah but the register is ghay!
Re: Future UEFI Booting problems? - Curtesy of Windows 8
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:03 am
by IdeasVacuum
It is my understanding that only a OS is effected by Secure Boot and not "normal" programs...
Can't see those programs running without an OS though.........