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LWN's 2013 Predictions

LWN's 2013 Predictions

Posted Jan 6, 2013 9:56 UTC (Sun) by yaap (subscriber, #71398)
In reply to: LWN's 2013 Predictions by pjones
Parent article: LWN's 2013 Predictions

The comment may refer to an UEFI implementation that also check the booted OS name and will only allow Windows or RHEL to boot. It should be simple to work-around that by just adjusting the name. I can't remember where I read about this and can't find (quickly;) a reference though.


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LWN's 2013 Predictions

Posted Jan 6, 2013 16:39 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

That's got nothing to do with the bootloader used (and isn't related to Secure Boot), so it doesn't seem like it.

LWN's 2013 Predictions

Posted Jan 7, 2013 13:52 UTC (Mon) by pjones (subscriber, #31722) [Link]

I'm well aware of that issue, and have been in contact with the vendor in question - but as mjg59 said, that's nothing at all to do with secure boot. It's just an unrelated bad idea some firmware vendor had.

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