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On 29/03/2013 18:57, bad apple wrote:
Sorry.. bonehead me forgot that, and he didn't mention it assuming I'd remember.. bad assumption he knows me better! :)On 29/03/13 17:53, Paul Sutton wrote:On 29/03/13 17:12, Julian Hall wrote:Hi All, I had the below query from a friend. Sounds odd to me. Is there any reason Linux boot CDs wouldn't work while Windows ones will? Cheers, Julian -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Question for the LUG Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:56:44 +0000 From: Neil<innercircle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: JULIAN MOBY<julian.hall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acer aspire one with windows 7 unable to boot from any Linux CD or diagnostic CD etc. Only windows setup CDs will boot. Is this a deliberate linux killer like on the new windows 8 systems? Sent from Huawei MobileAs far as I am aware ufei boot is only supported in Windows 8, so not sure, unless it is a windows 8 ready Laptop that has windows 7 on it, which would be rather odd too as I guess the windows 7 would have to be ufei enabled too. is it possible to boot from usb flash drive ? Also i believe they have solved this ufei issue on Linux, and a lot of the negativity was hyped up and made to sound far worse you can disable the secure boot in ufei or the specifications specify you can do this. PaulI've got a customer's Acer Aspire One sat right next to me (I had to replace the screen and recover a trashed install) and the first thing I can tell you is that they don't have a CD/DVD drive.
I'll mention the UEFI secure boot issue to him.. I'll be seeing him tomorrow. Unless the customer still has the laptop I'll ask him to bring it over.They are 10" netbooks, way too small for optical drives. Of course, they may be using a USB CD/DVD drive to boot from which in itself could be an issue. I had no problems flashing windows 7, Debian and GRML distros to USB sticks and booting the unit from them at various stages in the repair process though. There are several different models of this machine though, do you know which one they have? UEFI boot does *not* only support windows 8 either. This workstation has an MSI board with UEFI and has had a perfectly functioning win7 install on a secondary disk since day one. I have installed win7 countless times on UEFI systems. I think you are conflating UEFI and secure boot: they are not synonymous. There are plenty of UEFI implementations out there without secure boot at all, and it can be disabled on those UEFI instances that do have it incorporated.
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