I have never seen hardware without possibility to disable secureboot.

UBuntu works with secureboot. try it first?

Eero

2.1.2018 5.20 "Bill Maidment" <[log in to unmask]> kirjoitti:

Thanks. I thought that might be the answer.
Unfortunately, the bios (version 1.10) will not let me disable secure boot.
Maybe an older bios will?


-----Original message-----
> From:Eero Volotinen <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday 2nd January 2018 13:33
> To: Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: EFI installation of SL 7.4
>
> enable uefi on bios and disable secure boot.
>
> Eero
>
> 2.1.2018 4.25 "Bill Maidment" <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
kirjoitti:<br type="attribution" />Happy New Year everyone.

> I am now an owner of an Acer A515-51G laptop and Im trying to install SL
7.4 in EFI mode dual boot with Win 10.

> After lots of experiments I was only able to install in legacy mode, but
that locked me out of Win 10.

> I am trying to run mokutil, but I get an error as follows:

> mokutil --import /etc/pki/secure-boot/SECURE-
BOOT-KEY-fnal-sl7-exp-2020-08-26

> EFI variables are not supported on this system

> Elsewhere, it was suggested to do modprobe efivars, but efivars does not
appear to be available.

> Any suggestions as to what to do next?

>

> Cheers

> Bill Maidment