[ale] Linux on UEFI mother boards

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 09/24/2013 04:49 PM, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> Any light y'all can shine though this dark MafiaSoft punk thug
> corporapist nightmare corruption would be appreciated.

You can either disable Secure Boot (part of the UEFI specification, not
a proprietary extension) and simply boot any UEFI system, or you can get
installers for Ubuntu and Fedora that are Secure Boot-enabled and be
able to take advantage of the security benefits which entail (proof that
the boot loader and kernel are "legit" is useful even on Linux systems).

That said, any compliant firmware should have the ability to disable
Secure Boot right out of the box.  If you want a board that doesn't have
secure boot, I can recommend the 970A-G46 from MSI, which I have been
using for a while now.  I don't know if you can get it anymore,
actually, but if you can, it runs Fedora just fine.  (I haven't used
Ubuntu in long enough that I don't know about it on this system.)  BSD
systems also seem to boot and run just fine on it, though not with all
of the board's functionality enabled.

    --- Mike

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