All Questions
Tagged with secure-boot multi-boot
15
questions
0
votes
0
answers
41
views
How to alternate automatically at boot between my laptop's two installed OSes?
I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux 20.04 installed into separate encrypted partitions on my Dell Latitude 5411 laptop. When I shut down one OS, it's always to boot into the other one.
Linux is the ...
- 411
1
vote
1
answer
970
views
Odd message during boot using GRUB
I use Secure Boot, followed by GRUB2, set up to boot Debian 12 and Windows 11 at the choice of a user. Right after the user chooses Windows and hits ⏎, we see a black screen with two white lines on it ...
user1787659
0
votes
2
answers
507
views
Windows 11 installed on a refurbished HP so that I can't suppress Secure boot mode to boot on USB
I recently bought a refurbished HP Z4 G4 with windows 11 already installed. In order to dual boot, I have to change the bios/UEFI Secure Boot to disable (and legacy to enable). I am able to change it ...
- 181
2
votes
0
answers
710
views
How more secure is using Shim/PreLoader than having Secure Boot disabled?
I have my doubts on how secure is using Shim/PreLoader to allow booting Linux with Secure Boot enabled.
My doubt comes from the fact that it seems to me Shim's MokManager and PreLoader's HashTool can ...
- 359
1
vote
2
answers
788
views
When does Bitlocker unlock the drive?
I want to set up a Windows 10 Pro + Debian dual-boot configuration on my TPM-enabled laptop. The thing is that I want both Windows and Linux partitions to be fully encrypted by Bitlocker. I found a ...
- 23
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
My "Acer Aspire ES 15" laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed, does not let me turn off secure boot
I have installed Linux Mint 18 on my Acer Aspire ES 15 laptop which has Windows 10 pre-installed on it. But, I am not able to boot into the Linux OS as the machine is always booting into Windows 10 ...
- 21
1
vote
2
answers
7k
views
How to save secure boot keys?
I'm running Windows 7, and my motherboard is Asus p8z77-v.
I wan't to dual boot ubuntu, but the live usb doesn't load.
I did some research and found I need to disable secure boot.
In order to do ...
- 123
0
votes
1
answer
152
views
requesting app secure boot virtualbox
I am wondering if there are any secure programs I could use like virtual machine that can run on boot so I dont have to have a whole os running in the back ground but I am interested in trying ...
- 103
3
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Windows 10 / Linux Dual Boot - Boot-loader Problems
I am currently running a dual boot of Windows 10 Home 64-bit and Xubuntu 15.04 64-bit on my machine. I have Windows 10 on an SSD, Xubuntu on another SSD and an HDD for storage formatted as NTFS (this ...
- 81
0
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Dual Boot Linux and Windows 8 on ASUS laptop (Windows 8 Installed)
I'm having trouble locating information on installing linux on a ASUS laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed. I'd like to (1) retain the existing Windows 8 partition since its loaded and configured to my ...
- 12.3k
1
vote
4
answers
24k
views
Is it possible to make a EFI file to boot Yumi USB flash drive?
2 days ago I've bought an HP Envy laptop, which comes with Windows 8 pre-installed.
Before that I were using Yumi USB flash drive with a dozen of boot options to set-up the computers (e.g. re-...
- 803
0
votes
0
answers
49
views
Upgrading Win7/Quantal(secure boot off) to Win8/Quantal dual boot
I have a Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 dual boot setup on an HP g4 laptop that is Win8 ready. Secure boot is off(using legacy boot).
I want to upgrade to Windows 8, keeping the Ubuntu 12.10 install ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Multi-booting a secure-boot enabled Windows 8 laptop
My friend is buying a Lenovo Z500 with Windows 8 pre-installed and with that (irritating) Secure Boot feature. We use Ubuntu for some stuff at college and she wants me to help her install Ubuntu 12.10 ...
- 2,036
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
Secure Boot is not compatible on my PC; will I be able to install Windows 8 on it?
Yesterday, I ran Windows 8 upgrade assistant on my PC, Only problem it gave is that
Secure Boot isn't compatible with your PC
Your PC's firmware doesn't support Secure Boot so you won't be able to ...
- 131
1
vote
3
answers
2k
views
Booting CDs/USB devices after installing Windows 8
I recently installed Windows 8 on one of my four primary partitions. I had two partitions for Windows 7 (boot and os), one for the Windows System Recovery Environment and the last for Ubuntu. I was ...
- 95