From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:44:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120710164436.GE19565@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFC5861.5060104@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:29:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> For people who are not experts, trying Linux or another operating
> system becomes much more intimidating. They have to go into the
> BIOS and change something. Then, to go back to Windows, they have
> to do it again.
No windows boots fine without the secure boot enabled.
> Will this discourage users from trying something else? You bet.
Oh that's for sure. That part is clearly on purpose. :)
> But is is for private computers. My LUG frequently gives out DVDs
> with various Live system and say try it. That will become much more
> problematic.
>
> I still don't know how someone is supposed to be able to boot
> Windows within a VM with this new paradigm.
Windows will work fine without secure boot, it just won't have the
malware protection secure boot is supposed to offer.
--
Len Sorensen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-09 22:38 Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails? Graham Cunnington
2012-07-09 23:32 ` Chris Murphy
2012-07-09 23:49 ` Andreas Born
2012-07-10 1:23 ` richardvoigt
2012-07-10 1:51 ` Andreas Born
2012-07-10 3:12 ` richardvoigt
2012-07-10 5:04 ` Chris Murphy
2012-07-10 15:54 ` richardvoigt
2012-07-10 16:29 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-07-10 16:44 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
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