[GTALUG] UEFI bios/firmware

Tue Aug 11 15:01:24 UTC 2015

I had this same problem on an Acer laptop until I discovered you need to
enter a password and enable the password.

When you are finished disabling things, you can then disable the password.

Peter

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>
> Hello LenThank you for your help.In at least 3 computers I have come
> across, that has this option grayed out. As shown in pic1 of that link you
> supplied. So it is not accessible.Â Every link I came across, basicly had
> the same solution you described.Â There for those three computers can not
> have a true format done. All three have corrupted hinden partions. Putting
> a new hard drive will not help either. New mother boards would
> help.CheersÂ Abby
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung device
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> Date: 08-11-2015  10:25  (GMT-05:00)
> To: GTALUG Talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> Subject: Re: [GTALUG] UEFI bios/firmware
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:39:02AM +0200, Abby Bassie-Cripps wrote:
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>> <div>Hello Len</div>
>>
>> <div> </div>
>>
>> <div>That was very informative, thank you.</div>
>>
>> <div> </div>
>>
>> <div>For an update, the main computer is question is a toshiba satellite
>> with win 8.1. In this once case, I could not find any default to unlock
>> the secure boot.</div>
>>
>> <div>In addition, all of the computers that have come my way with UEFI,
>> are windows 8 & 8.1 and are all secure in some form or another. I
>> know have three computers that where given to me because of the UEFI /
>> secure boot issue. I have never come across a computer that used UEFI
>> and was not secure booted. All other computers I have worked on, have
>> been using bios.</div>
>>
>> <div>Seperately, I have what was a $1400 laptop that came with win.
>> 7. It had UEFI, but was the only computer not using secure boot. I have
>> since put 8.1 and now 10 on it and it works better than 7, using UEFI.
>> Its secure boot was apart of the UEFI. Hense my mis-understanding.</div>
>>
>> <div>
>> <div>For the group, I perfer Ubuntu and now my iMac with OS X 10.10.4.
>> There is so little issues with both, compared to windows OS.</div>
>>
>> <div> </div>
>>
>> <div>So Len, are you able to tell me what the steps should be to disable
>> the secure boot in windows 8 & 8.1? Other than the simple out dated
>> method that we all know about?</div>
>
> Well from what I can find the process is:
>
> When you see Toshiba logo, hit F2, then you should be in the UEFI (BIOS)
> settings.
>
> Under security tab there should be an option for 'secure boot' which
> you want to set to disabled.Â  If you want to keep windows working,
> that should be all you change, and then you should be able to install
> linux as long as the distribution is new enough to support UEFI booting.
> If you don't want to keep windows and you want to use an older style
> distribution that does not do UEFI booting, then you have to also find
> the "CSM boot" setting (under advanced/system settings) and turn that on.
> That will break booting windows 8.1 on the machine though.Â  I would
> personally stick with UEFI booting these days.
>
> https://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB2B03F30002R01.htm
>
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