Linux and secure boot
by Challene from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52QY8)
Hello everyone.
My friend need to use windows for studying, but he want to use linux. Because it will be his first attempt with linux(VMs are not good choice for laptop with ~4 GB of RAM and windows 10 on board), I recommended to try Antix or any other live CD distros on his USB stick, but the boot menu don't see any other devices(Except HDD). As I already know from your answers, that's because of secure boot. I told my friend that he need to turn it off, but the strangest thing for us was this one:
If you want to disable secure boot on acer laptop, you need to create a bios password for some reason. I do understand that this password will not affect to the boot process and it will only needed if you'll try to change something in BIOS. But still I decided to ask you about this, because I'm not that good at this.
If he will set BIOS secure password, will this affect somehow on boot process? for example ->
1. It will ask password on boot
2. Windows will not boot
3. Anything else?
Super sorry for disturbing you :(
My friend need to use windows for studying, but he want to use linux. Because it will be his first attempt with linux(VMs are not good choice for laptop with ~4 GB of RAM and windows 10 on board), I recommended to try Antix or any other live CD distros on his USB stick, but the boot menu don't see any other devices(Except HDD). As I already know from your answers, that's because of secure boot. I told my friend that he need to turn it off, but the strangest thing for us was this one:
If you want to disable secure boot on acer laptop, you need to create a bios password for some reason. I do understand that this password will not affect to the boot process and it will only needed if you'll try to change something in BIOS. But still I decided to ask you about this, because I'm not that good at this.
If he will set BIOS secure password, will this affect somehow on boot process? for example ->
1. It will ask password on boot
2. Windows will not boot
3. Anything else?
Super sorry for disturbing you :(