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Matthew Summers posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:52:31 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> Pardon my ignorance, but will we be requires to sign the boot |
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> loader/kernel on our install media for a Win8 machine to boot the iso? |
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This was one of the issues covered early on. Unless it has changed, no. |
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Booting external media (at least optical, not sure about USB-mass- |
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storage, etc) bypasses the required signing, so that much, at least, |
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should be safe. |
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An initial proposal in fact would have required booting optical media in |
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ordered to disable the sig-checks, etc, but AFAIK that was deemed too |
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disruptive, particularly for netbooks and etc that don't normally have |
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built-in optical media at all. |
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It's worth noting that EFI can switch back to legacy mode for such |
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things, and it's possible this exception is connected to el-torrito |
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optical disk booting, tho I'm not sure on that. That's why I've |
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specified optical, above. Direct-partitioned and bootable USB media may |
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not be included. I'm sure GKH or others who have been following it |
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closer can fill in the details. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |