On 9 Sep 2021 at 14:09, George N. White III wrote:
From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii(a)gmail.com>
Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 14:09:57 -0300
Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
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On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 09:35, Michael D. Setzer II via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
[...]
From my understanding from one of the Users. They just
got 140 of these new Dell 3080 machines, and they have
no options for other than UEFI boot. The 3070 versions
of
the machines had the option to do regular boots. Could
be
a more complex process to enable it, but I'm sure he
tried
lots of things. Got a message about Lenova doing the
same, but no specifics from that user. Went to Dell site,
but there site seems to have no options unless you
provide a code number from an actual machine??
Right now, the user is having to physically remove drives
from 3080 machine, and connect them to a 3070
machine
to do image, and then can put the drive back??
It is not surprising that legacy boot is going away -- vendors
want to minimize support issues and removing "features"
that few customers use gives users one less way to break
systems and allows them to simplify the BIOS code.
You might look at Knoppix UEFI support
<
https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix-uefi-en.html >
It looks like they have automated the process of creating a "machine owner
key" (MOK) when booting.
Thanks looked at page, but will have to look into it. Not
sure where one gets the hash code, and currently have 5
machines at home, but none using EFI boot, so haven't
gone into setting up EFI. From a memtest web page
message saw something like the office Secure Key cost
like $10,000?? I don't make a dime of G4L, but it is
something I enjoy.
Thanks for the info.
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George N. White III