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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 15:45:01 +1100
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A bit more Googling provided the answer.
There is a magic touch in Acer laptops. You have to set an administrator password in the bios before you are allowed to disable secure boot.
I can now dual boot (using the windows boot manager). The rest should be plain sailing now.
Cheers
Bill
 
-----Original message-----
> From:Eero Volotinen <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday 2nd January 2018 15:21
> To: Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RE: EFI installation of SL 7.4
> 
> 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] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> kirjoitti:<br type="attribution" />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] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
 
> > Sent: Tuesday 2nd January 2018 13:33
 
> > To: Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
 
> > Cc: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[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]> <mailto:[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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