HispaLinux files complaint about UEFI

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/77645.html
>>
>> I suspect our own "POG" group might find it interesting to take a peek
>> at this to see if there is any local applicability.  It's possible
>> that there's nothing apropos to do in Canada, but I couldn't evaluate
>> that one way or another.
> I have UEFI bios in my Asus AMD board.  I have no problem booting Linux.
> Or, is "Secure Boot" a different animal?

It's a different animal.  UEFI replaces the BIOS for booting. Secure 
Boot is supposedly a means of ensuring booting a trusted OS, though it's 
beyond me how that would apply to Windows 8.  It is also controlled by 
MS, so one might suspect it's an attempt to keep other than Windows from 
booting.


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