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   Maurice Batey to Adam   
   Re: Video of booting with UEFI Secure Bo   
   29 Nov 12 15:48:38   
   
   From: maurice@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:15:46 -0500, Adam wrote:   
      
   > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694388   
      
       'struth!  It's far worse than I had imagined...   
   GRUB2 is something I'm not looking forward to with e.g. Mageia-3   
   (having encountered it recently with Ubuntu 12.01 and Mint 13).   
     Guess I bought my non-SecureBoot netbook just in time...   
      
   > Here Win8 /will/ boot with secure boot disabled, but "with some   
   > foreknowledge and manual intervention the box is in a usable but   
   > nonoptimal state."   
      
     Sonehow that doesn't make me feel well at all.   
      
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