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Any plan for UEFI Porteus Secure Boot?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 12:11
by kalo86
Hello dear Community,

I'm using Porteus also in a new laptop (Acer V3-571G) which is provided by the new UEFI Secure Boot.
If I want to boot Porteus from my USB flash drive I need to load at first the "Legacy BIOS" and then, after a reboot of the machine, I could be able to boot Porteus.

Since I use mainly Windows for my work, I Always have to switch between UEFI and Legacy BIOS to boot Windows or Porteus. This is a little boring for me and for a lot of users who have a recent laptop.

Is there any plan for a new bootloader?
Thanks in advance,

kalo86

Re: Any plan for UEFI Porteus Secure Boot?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 13:18
by brokenman
I imagine we will have to support it in the future but we are still in the cross-over stage of this new 'Unrequired and Extremely Futile Integrated' boot system. Your options right now are to use a USB device to boot porteus.

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackw ... i_hardware

Re: Any plan for UEFI Porteus Secure Boot?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 14:10
by kalo86
Yes, you are right, UEFI is really unuseful!
Anyway I am going to format my HDD because I find Windows 8 the new epic fail of Microsoft.
I will install Windows 7 using the legacy BIOS so I will be able to boot any Linux distro without problems.
Thank you for your help!

kalo

Re: Any plan for UEFI Porteus Secure Boot?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 15:09
by Hamza
Simply disable 'Secure Boot' feature enabled by default in the UEFI Control Panel and boot whatever you want on your laptop/computer.