Re: Debian 7 and UEFI/GPT
On 12/03/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay.
>
> In thinking about this further, I remembered that, due to the
> malicious nature of MS Win8, it is installed with the nasty
> UEFI->Secure Boot mode, which maliciously disables the installation of
> any additional operating systems.
>
> And, I remember that the only way to amend that, to enable additional
> operating systems to be installed, is to bypass the Secure Boot mode.
>
> So, I decided to check, using Boot-> <F2> to find the boot mode.
>
> That shows the Boot Mode, as "Legacy".
>
> So, I switched the Boot Mode to UEFI, and "Secure Boot" is shown as
> "Enabled.
>
> So, I shifted the active position, to try to toggle the "Secure Mode"
> setting, to "Disabled".
>
> But, the active position by passes the "Secure Boot" field, thus
> indicating, to me, that, with the UEFI Boot Mode, the Secure Boot can
> not be disabled, so, in UEFI, it appears to be MS Win8, or nothing.
>
> Now, to the right of the frame, in which those settings may be altered
> (where they can be altered), is, under "Item Specific Help",
> "Select boot type to Dual type, Legacy type or UEFI type"
>
> Down the bottom of the screen, is "F5/F6 Change values"
>
> But, in toggling through the Boot Mode values, using each of <F5> and
> <F6>, the "Dual option is not available - not "greyed out" as being
> not selectable - simply not displayed as an option.
>
> So, the only Boot Mode options, are "UEFI" -> "Secure Boot Mode"
> "Enabled", and "Legacy.
>
> In booting into the UEFI Boot Mode, (after a while) MS Win8 boots.
>
> I can not (at this stage) do anything with it - I have forgotten the
> login password (I have to find whether I can reset that, and, if so,
> how).
>
> In then rebooting, into the <F2> Setup Utility, and selecting Legacy,
> as the Boot Mode value, I get the Ubuntu GRUB menu, allowing me to
> boot into either Debian or Ubuntu Linux.
>
> The <F2> Setup Utility displays, in the Title Bar, "InsydeH20 Setup
> Utility Rev. 3.7".
>
> The solution, at this stage, appears to be to use the <F2> Setup, to
> change between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes, thence to select which
> operating system, I want to boot.
>
> I believe that, unless and until the "InsydeH20 Setup Utility" is
> upgraded, to allow the UEFI -> Secure Boot Mode to be turned off,
> and/or, the Boot modes to include provision of the stated "Dual type"
> Boot Mode, the solution that I have described, is the only available
> solution, to allow me to boot into any one of the three installed
> operating systems mentioned above.
>
I note that, after visiting the web page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
to which I have been referred, in another message posted in this
thread, I found
"while Insyde Software offers InsydeH2O, its own implementation of Tiano."
which contains a link to the wikipedia web page about that company, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insyde_Software
which contains a link, toward the bottom of that web page, to the web
site for the company, at
http://www.insydesw.com/
So I thought that it would be a good idea to go to the company web
site, and find a contact email address for the company, and send them
an email, stating that the software that is the
"InsydeH20 Setup Utility Rev. 3.7" for the particular computer, is
defective, as described above, and ask when the company intends to fix
the defect, and supply the corrected software.
But, in going to the company web site, I found the web site to be one
of those malicious web sites, that crash web browsers (the web browser
starts displaying the home page of the web site, and then crashes,
while downloading the home page of the web site, and, I have tried to
access that web site, a number of times, and, each time, it crashed
the web browser), and so, I have no confidence in that company. Its
software is defective, and, its web site is malicious.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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