a bios password is required to turn off secure boot on all new acer computers
and notebooks, that said, debian uses the fsf linux signing key and packages
shim which does support secure boot, same goes with ubuntu, fedora, android
x86, and open suse
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On Friday, May 20, 2022 at 10:41 am, Didier Spaier <didier@xxxxxxxx
(mailto:didier@xxxxxxxx)> wrote:
Hi,
I assume that there is no BIOS password set in a new machine, the owner has to
set one if wished or needed (as suggested by Jordan for some Acer notebooks to
be allowed to disable secure Boot if I understand well).
Cheers,
Diider
Le 19/05/2022 à 17:46, Daniel Crone a écrit :
How would one know what the bios password would be?===============================================================================
On May 18, 2022, at 15:52, jordan <jordanlivesey9@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jordanlivesey9@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
my acer has no option to turn off secure boot unfortunately so I am
unable to
install Slackware based linux distributions, and its looking like acer may
require that bios passwords are used if you do want to have no secure
boot,
for those who do not know, a bios password is a password for your pc
bios, you
have to enter it every time you go into the boot menu, the bios settings,
and
in rare cases, booting from your hard drive, its the only way to disable
secure boot on an acer notebook
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On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:49 pm, Didier Spaier
<appartement.cdm@xxxxxxx <mailto:appartement.cdm@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,
Le 18/05/2022 à 19:55, Daniel Crone a écrit :
Is not secure boot and u e f i hard for a total to work with?
UEFI should not be an issue (most people use it even no knowing that they
do) ,
but Secure Boot is hard, yes, including for me <smile>
Cheers,
Didier
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