Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 13:50:00 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Secure Boot" motherboards (to avoid)? Message-ID: <5061.1399755000@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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Please forgive what may perhaps be an FAQ, answered somewhere (but noplace that I can find, apparently). I'll be buying a new motherboard soon to replace the aging 6.5 year old Gigabyte motherboard in my #2 "desktop" system. For whatever new motherboard I buy, do I need to be on the lookout for the possibility that it may incorporate some form of non-easily- disablable UEFI/SecureBoot firmware that will prevent me from booting anything other than Windoze? Or is this generally a non-issue for stand-alone (sold-alone) consumer motherboards? P.S. I don't know if this is relevant or not, but for the record, it is my intention at the present time to *never* run Windows 8.anything. I do however use Windows 7 on occasion, and would almost certainly be using that on this new system I'll be building... in addition to a variety of other operating systems, including FreeBSD. (Horray for cheap sATA hot-swap racks!)
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