stock f20 bootloader not signed
by patrick korsnick
Hi all,
I just did a fresh f20 install in UEFI mode (no CSM) with secure boot
enabled and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I
get an error about the bootloader not being signed and have to disable
secure boot in order to boot the machine. I did a search on Bugzilla for
the error message and didn't find anything. Has anyone encountered this
error before?
The machine is a HP Zbook 17 with the latest firmware (BIOS) update
installed.
Cheers
9 years, 8 months
centos/fedora install without gui!
by bruce
Hi guys/list.
Looking into installing centos/fedora and I'd like to increase the
inodes on the partitions. So I'm trying to find a step by step process
to accomplish this.
As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me
to insert the increased inode count.
Comments would be appreciated.
ps.
I know I can take a partition offline, reformat it, and increase the
nodes, but I don't see how one can do this with the primary/root
portion of the drive on the same system..
thanks
9 years, 8 months
Re: centos/fedora install without gui!
by bruce
ok...
but given that I've asked for how to be able to install centos/fedora
so I can increase the inode count!!!!!
still trying to figure this part out! ie, where/how does one do the
cmdline/level install and where would the attribute for increasing the
inode count occur..
thanks
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:48 PM, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/14/2014 12:29 PM, bruce wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys/list.
>>
>> Looking into installing centos/fedora and I'd like to increase the
>> inodes on the partitions. So I'm trying to find a step by step process
>> to accomplish this.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me
>> to insert the increased inode count.
>>
>> Comments would be appreciated.
>>
>> ps.
>>
>> I know I can take a partition offline, reformat it, and increase the
>> nodes, but I don't see how one can do this with the primary/root
>> portion of the drive on the same system..
>>
>> thanks
>
> The installer will not provide any interface where you specify the number of
> inodes.
> IMHO, it is for the good or the overwhelming majority of users, who do not
> understand
> the consequences of specifying their own inode count.
>
> The short of the long is: Fewer inodes are normally used for filesystems
> that
> will contain very large or huge files and hardly any small files. Thus most
> of the
> disk space is used for file storage.
> The converse is that a considerably larger number of inodes would be used
> for filesystems that will contain mostly small files, thus allow a larger
> number of such small files.
> But with the increasing size of disks, this issue becomes less and less
> of a concern for most users.
>
9 years, 8 months
Radio silence?
by Rolf Turner
This is really a test message. I have received nothing today from the
Fedora list. Has the list gone down?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
--
Rolf Turner
Technical Editor ANZJS
9 years, 8 months
My wallpaper never changes
by Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-20/KDE.
I have had the same - quite nice - wallpaper for a month or so.
When I right-click on this, and go to Default Desktop Settings,
I read
Layout: Default Desktop
Wallpaper: Picture of the Day
Source: Flickr Picture of the Day
What am I failing to do?
(What is that film where the day never changes?)
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
9 years, 8 months
RE: stock f20 bootloader not signed
by Madhurjya Roy
Hello Patrick,
Actually, I have a dual laptop which has Windows 8 and Kali, and a Macbook with OS X and Fedora, I can confirm that Kali didn't work with Secure Boot enabled!
I wasn't aware that fedora actually supports Secure Boot until I checked fedora docs about UEFI[1]. However, it is still not as simple as paying Microsoft to include their keys and also I do not think that the system is flawless, as I still hear many fedora users with their complaints on Secure Boot.
You might be interested in checking this out, if you haven't already :
[1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html-single/UEFI_Secure_Boo...
Cheers,
Madhurjya Roy
FAS : madhurjyaroy
IRC Nick (irc.freenode.net) : madhurjyaroy
-----Original Message-----
From: "patrick korsnick" <korsnick(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 8/12/2014 10:51 PM
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: stock f20 bootloader not signed
Hi Madhurjya,
As I understand it Fedora paid Microsoft to register their key so Secure Boot does indeed work with Fedora. See AdamW's talk below for more info- the secure boot subject matter is near the end of the talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmoeEM_eCQo
cheers,
pat
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Madhurjya Roy <roymadhurjya(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Patrick,
It's not a bug! Actually, most of the laptops that come preinstalled with Windows 8/8.1 come with secure boot. It's just a feature that is used to verify the signature on Windows Bootloader!
Secure Boot is not meant to verify signature of Linux bootloader (GRUB) and I'm not sure if it comes with any!
So, it's a Windows 8/8.1 only feature and you will have to disable it if you want to run fedora or some other OS! Please, don't go by its name. Disabling Secure boot will only allow other bootloaders to work and won't compromise on any form of security!
Net Verdict - It's a 100% secure and a recommended must to disable Secure Boot in order to boot any NON Windows 8/8.1 OS.
Cheers,
Madhurjya Roy
FAS : madhurjyaroy
IRC Nick (irc.freenode.net) : madhurjyaroy
From: patrick korsnick
Sent: 8/12/2014 12:08 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: stock f20 bootloader not signed
Hi all,
I just did a fresh f20 install in UEFI mode (no CSM) with secure boot enabled and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I get an error about the bootloader not being signed and have to disable secure boot in order to boot the machine. I did a search on Bugzilla for the error message and didn't find anything. Has anyone encountered this error before?
The machine is a HP Zbook 17 with the latest firmware (BIOS) update installed.
Cheers
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9 years, 8 months
RE: stock f20 bootloader not signed
by Madhurjya Roy
Hello Patrick,
It's not a bug! Actually, most of the laptops that come preinstalled with Windows 8/8.1 come with secure boot. It's just a feature that is used to verify the signature on Windows Bootloader!
Secure Boot is not meant to verify signature of Linux bootloader (GRUB) and I'm not sure if it comes with any!
So, it's a Windows 8/8.1 only feature and you will have to disable it if you want to run fedora or some other OS! Please, don't go by its name. Disabling Secure boot will only allow other bootloaders to work and won't compromise on any form of security!
Net Verdict - It's a 100% secure and a recommended must to disable Secure Boot in order to boot any NON Windows 8/8.1 OS.
Cheers,
Madhurjya Roy
FAS : madhurjyaroy
IRC Nick (irc.freenode.net) : madhurjyaroy
-----Original Message-----
From: "patrick korsnick" <korsnick(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 8/12/2014 12:08 AM
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: stock f20 bootloader not signed
Hi all,
I just did a fresh f20 install in UEFI mode (no CSM) with secure boot enabled and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I get an error about the bootloader not being signed and have to disable secure boot in order to boot the machine. I did a search on Bugzilla for the error message and didn't find anything. Has anyone encountered this error before?
The machine is a HP Zbook 17 with the latest firmware (BIOS) update installed.
Cheers
9 years, 8 months
Command line for creating partitions
by Robert Moskowitz
I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing.
Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on
'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recognized
when I mounted the drive. I had to use the disk utility to fix the
labels. Anyway, to script it and to put this up on some wikis, I really
need to do this by command line.
So I have looked at both fdisk and parted. Neither are for 'simple'
command lines. Fdisk takes me back to my DOS days (wonder where MS got
it from?).
So first I want a command that will delete all partitions on /dev/sdb
then create a partition as ext3, then one as linux-swap, and finally
ext4. Of course, I understand how many MB I want each, but I am suppose
to (or so from the warnings that 'fdisk -l' provided) maintain boundaries.
thanks for any pointers to the best tool(s) for this. So far my search
foo has only gone to old fdisk pages.
9 years, 8 months
bind-chroot?
by Tom Horsley
I am trying to adapt all the config from an ancient (fedora 13)
system where the disk died to the new disk I figured I might as
well go ahead and update to centos 7.
Is there anything magical I need to do to get bind and
bind-chroot working?
It looks sort of like the bind-chroot-setup service will
automagically copy the config files into the chroot.
What about additional zone files? Do I put them directly
in the chroot directory, or do they get copied too?
Is there any doc somewhere on the web for bind under
systemd? (A quick google search didn't seem to turn
up anything obvious).
I also seem to remember a recent thread here about
how to make things really wait for the network
to be "up" and services like named not starting properly
all the time. Any conclusions about the best way to
fix that?
9 years, 8 months
This might be OT - install from live CD to SSD
by Joe Feely
Trying to install Fedora 20 to a replacement Kingston SSDNOW300V 120 GB
SSD, from the live CD (Mate DE spin). The previous similar SSD died after 4
months excellent use.
My hardware is a bundle consisting of:-
Motherboard - Asrock FM2A75 Pro 4+ with CPU an AMD trinity A4 5300, and
2x2GB DDR3 RAM
What's happening:-
On starting the bios (UEFI) can see the SSD (even displays the S/N); within
UEFI is the only time I can see the SSD.
Fedora 20 live CD boots up ok (bar can't see the SSD), and following the
option to install to hard drive it can't see any hard drive.
(I tried with Linux Mint 16, and the same problem).
A friend has successfully connected to the drive via an external SSD reader
(connected by USB 3), and used a program "Partition wizard 8" to format it,
and copy and read some files successfully (he was running Windows 7).
Any ideas what I could try ?
Thanks,
Joe
9 years, 8 months