UEFI bootkit

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Fri Sep 21 05:42:41 UTC 2012


On 21.09.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: 

> >To be able to boot any other system than Windows, you have to turn
> >off secure boot or you could use your own keys signed by Microsoft.
> >It's not (U)EFI which is the problem, it's the "secure boot".

> AAAhhh!! NOW I think I understand!......

You can boot Fedora 18 with (U)EFI and secure boot turned on, of
course. Because the Fedora kernel and programs are signed with a
Fedora key, which itself is signed by M$.

If you want to have "old-style" Fedora, you'll have to turn off secure
boot.





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