stock f20 bootloader not signed

[patrick korsnick]

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 at 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 <korsnick at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎8/‎12/‎2014 12:08 AM
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at 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
>
>
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