Secure boot is enabled.  Evidently, the only means to disable secure 
boot requires that a secure boot loader/configuration program be running 
-- e.g., the MS proprietary boot loader (typically, supplied as part of 
MS Windows 8) must be used to disable secure boat if the UEFI actually 
permits this to be disabled (I have heard of some UEFI implementations 
that do not permit secure boot truly to be disabled).

If Linux cannot handle this issue, then Linux is finished on all generic 
(e.g., not Apple that supplies both the hardware and operating 
environment software under a restrictive proprietary for-profit 
intellectual property license) X86-64 hardware, as (almost?) all current 
such hardware is MS 8 (UEFI secure boot) compliant.

Yasha Karant

On 09/23/2013 10:29 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Yasha Karant wrote:
>
>> A colleague who uses SuSE non-enterprise for his professional
>> (enterprise) workstations has now attempted to load the latest SuSE on a
>> machine with a new generic (aftermarket) "gamer" UEFI  X86-64
>> motherboard.  It does not properly boot.  I do not have any UEFI
>> motherboards, and thus no experience with SL6x on such motherboards.
>
> Is "secure boot" enabled in the UEFI ?
>
>>
>> Does anyone?  Does SL6x boot correctly (and easily) on a UEFI
>> motherboard?  If so, he may switch to SL.
>
> Yes as long as "secure boot" is disabled .
>
>>
>> Yasha Karant
>>
>
> -connie sieh