On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 04:57:20PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
I didn't "simply walk away" either back in the day
where RHL wouldn't
boot without disabling the "Plug and Play operating system" option in
the BIOS.
You're a pretty atypical case.
I found it perfectly normal that the firmware settings need to be
adjusted based on the operating system(s) one wants to use. (Window$
worked just fine with the changed option, just as it reportedly will
with "Secure" Boot disabled, see Matthew Garrett's posts about that
subject.)
Some Windows functionality will be disabled along with secure boot, but
that's not really the point. We've done huge amounts of work to make
Fedora (and Linux in general) work without requiring any firmware
tweaking and people have recognised the value for that.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org