Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

From	Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation
Date	2017-04-20 15:50 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Karagkiaouris Diamantis <
> diamantis.karagkiaouris.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> How can i install debian with UEFI support? Is there any simple tutorial?
>> Also do i have to disable the secure boot and then proceed with uefi
>> installation?
>> I have tried but then a message "could not authenticate boot media"
>> emerges and the boot stop right there.
>> I am new to debian and i don't want to abandon for this silly reason.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>
> I thought I had kept notes when I did this, but I can't find them.
>
> I installed on a Dell (don't recall the model number now, but it's a
> recent model), and I found that the firmware appears to be buggy, in that
> you can specify a UEFI installation to boot, and it shows the setting you
> enter, but it ignores that setting and boots only to the default
> installation, which is something like "\boot\default\boot64.efi".
>
> The only way I could get around it was to create a separate \default
> directory (or whatever the default directory name was - I don't now
> remember) and copy my debian64.efi (or whatever it was) file into that
> directory, renamed as boot64.efi (or whatever the default name was that it
> was looking for).
>
> Stupid firmware programming!
>
>
> --
> Kent West                    <")))><
> Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
>


This thread outlines my woes that I had previously:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00544.html

-- 
Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Thread

Secure boot - Uefi installation Karagkiaouris Diamantis <diamantis.karagkiaouris.dev@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 23:40 +0200
  Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 01:30 +0200
    Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-04-18 05:50 +0200
    Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-04-19 21:00 +0200
      Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Diamantis Karagkiaouris <diamantis.karagkiaouris.dev@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 21:10 +0200
        Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 02:40 +0200
          Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-04-20 20:30 +0200
      Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 00:50 +0200
        Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-04-20 07:10 +0200
  Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-04-18 07:40 +0200
  Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-20 15:50 +0200
    Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-20 15:50 +0200
    Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-04-20 15:50 +0200
      libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation fc <fc@AreYouForThePeople.org> - 2017-04-20 21:00 +0200
        Re: libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-04-21 00:40 +0200
          Re: libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 02:00 +0200
      RE: Secure boot - Uefi installation Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> - 2017-04-22 01:00 +0200
        Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-04-22 09:20 +0200
    Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-04-20 20:10 +0200
      Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-04-21 00:40 +0200
  Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-04-21 05:00 +0200

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