On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As it turns out, a colleague was able to install a different Linux distro on
> a UEFI secure boot motherboard, despite an initial failure, a distro that
> other respondents to the SL list did mention as supporting UEFI Secure Boot.
> There are certain peculiarities involved, including the use of a VFAT (MS
> format) partition.  As it is likely that SL 7 will require the same
> mechanism(s) when it is released, I am presenting this information as
> probable preview of coming attractions  (Linux base tends to be the same
> across many different distributions because of the difficulty of
> re-inventing the details of hardware support -- even if details of such
> things as anaconda versus other installers are quite different and
> incompatible).  The below reference should be OpenSuSE 12.3 .
>
> From a colleague:
>
> Subject: suse 12.3 install
>
> Got it working on my UEFI system, required a re-install

Could you confirm that Secure Boot was indeed enabled there? 'Secure
Boot' is the part that is problematic.

Akemi