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Re: EFI installation of SL 7.4
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Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
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Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:19:48 +1100
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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
 

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