[Server-devel] UEFI workaround?

[Sebastian Silva]

If at all possible, the first thing to do is disable secure uefi boot.

The only distro that I've found has out of the box support for secure 
boot is the Ubuntu family. Maybe there are others.

Some firmwares don't support legacy boot anymore, so even unsecured, 
they need to boot using UEFI (make sure you install the proper 
bootloader).

I've succeeded with Archlinux, and had to learn all about EFI booting. 
I recommend this step to Tony, then he can apply the knowledge to 
fedora. They have pretty good docs: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI

It's possible to install a fedora chroot under any system, but it's not 
ideal.

Governments and deployments should really know better than buying 
crippled hardware. Perhaps this is an area where this community could 
produce formal recommendations that we would distribute to the people 
on charge of buying the hardware. It should really be a policy and even 
law.

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El vie, 31 de oct 2014 a las 11:50 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> 
escribió:
> Tony Anderson’s is leaving to Africa in 6 days, assisting many 
> different school server deployments, and needs help getting around 
> "secure" BIOS/firmware UEFI on the following platforms:
> 
> - NUC 34010 - BIOS upgrade solves this, by moving jumper and 
> inserting USB memory stick containing newer Intel BIOS
> - NUC 2820 - installs but doesn't boot
> - Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807
> - Zotac nano CI320
> - Zotac ID81 Atom system but UEFI not Bios
> 
> Just in case you have any similar experience, please drop some hints, 
> and he'll happily reply here with Tons of more details he's tried :)
> 
> --
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