<div>If at all possible, the first thing to do is disable secure uefi boot.</div><div><br></div>The only distro that I've found has out of the box support for secure boot is the Ubuntu family. Maybe there are others.<div><div><br></div><div>Some firmwares don't support legacy boot anymore, so even unsecured, they need to boot using UEFI (make sure you install the proper bootloader).</div><div><br></div><div>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: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's possible to install a fedora chroot under any system, but it's not ideal.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br>--<br>Sebastian Silva<br>"icarito" #sugar #somosazucar (freenode IRC)<br>Somos Azúcar - Fuente Libre - Sugar Labs<br><br>"Las maestras y los maestros democráticos intervenimos en el mundo a través del cultivo de la curiosidad" - P.Freire
<br><br>El vie, 31 de oct 2014 a las 11:50 AM, Adam Holt <holt@laptop.org> escribió:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">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:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- NUC 34010 - BIOS upgrade solves this, by moving jumper and inserting USB memory stick containing newer Intel BIOS<br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- NUC 2820 - installs but doesn't boot</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- Zotac nano CI320</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">- Zotac ID81 Atom system but UEFI not Bios</span></p><br></div>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 :)<br><div><br>--<br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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