Posted on 05/28/2013 9:20:00 AM PDT by ShadowAce
/johnny
You need to know this—in case I ever have a question about it—LOL!
I just had to have our techies do an end-run around this in the BIOS because so long as it was in place they could not get the machine to stop wasting 5 minutes each morning trying to boot from a non-existent CD disk.
Screw that. I'll spend my money elsewhere.
/johnny
That is also my opinion.
Good luck with that one! UEFI has been on every board manufactured since 2008. It will soon replaced the traditional BIOS, and I, for one, am excited about that.
The problem is with the actual mechanism of 'secure boot.' If you don't have the hash used to create the secure boot portion of the UEFI boot processor, you can't modify it. If you can flash your UEFI processor, you can do whatever you want to it. That's the beauty of the GNU licensing platform.
Problem is that since Win8 requires secure boot, you're stuck using it, and as I understand it, Win8 actually creates the secure boot sector on the UEFI processor and locks it. That's the ultimate issue here. Use Secure Boot all day long, but don't lock it or otherwise force us out of it. It has a purpose, but since it's been compromised and hijacked by Micro$oft, they want to get rid of it altogether.
I have zero experience with UEFI—doesn’t it have a boot order? Get rid of the CD in the boot order.
Incorrect--I bought my current machine in 2010. It does not have UEFI on it.
It had a boot order but the options were greyed out.
Could not choose any option other than Boot from CD
while the UEFI Secure Boot was still in place.
Gotcha. That truly sux,
But what do I know? I'm just an IT professional with over 30 years experience.
It might not be enabled, but it’s on there. It’s part of the integrated architectural plan used in every PCB maker’s tool shop across the world. If you don’t have it, then you’re using a mobo modified post-process by the manufacturer or an OEM using old reference layouts.
It’s not on there. I’ve checked.
What brand mobo do you have, just out of curiosity?
MSI. It’s an MSI GT680R laptop with a corei7 Quad-core CPU.
My apologies, I thought it was a desktop. I don’t believe laptop reference layouts are affected by the UEFI standard quite yet.
/johnny
Ahh—gotcha. I haven’t purchased a desktop in years.
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