Secure Boot

meetdilip

Adept

Do you enable secure boot? Does it actually help you somehow? What if we disable it? I am not able to boot from USB unless I turn the secure boot off.

 

nRiTeCh

Skilled

Better to let it be enabled...

 

ankushv

Adept

If you boot a secure boot enabled os , i.e. win 10/11 or Linux mint or Ubuntu it's best to leave the setting enabled . Some os ( older Linux versions ) do not support secure boot . Hence the option in bios to leave it off for these os to boot and run successfully .

 

meetdilip

Adept

Thanks. A few people told me otherwise. That is why I thought about asking it here.

 

vishalrao

Global Moral Police

Skilled

Yeah I disable secure boot for multiple distro boot.

Even if it works initially I had faced an issue after installing virtualbox which install kernel dkms module which breaks secure boot.

Not sure about current situation but I don't bother.

 

meetdilip

Adept

I had the same issue. Added the key and it works.

 

dvader

Disciple

On a personal system you can disable it. Secure boot restricts system boot from random bootable drives, only a signed EFI binary will be booted if enabled. You can however add a custom key and sign all your EFI binaries with it but that's extra work for no gain on a personal system. DC servers on the other hand enforce secure boot without fail.