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tzs on June 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secure Boot: Who will control your next computer?

You can run whatever you want. If you don't care about security, go to the firmware settings and turn off secure boot. If you do care about security, go to the firmware settings and add your own key, and then sign the boot loader for your operating system with the corresponding key.

rbanffy on June 21, 2012 [–]

> go to the firmware settings and turn off secure boot.

Except that you cannot do that with any ARM-based machine.

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