On Sun Dec08'24 10:02:49PM, Robin Laing wrote: > From: Robin Laing <mesat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 22:02:49 -0700 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reply-To: MeSat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Clean installing Fedora 41 on a Dell Latitude 7450 > > On 2024-12-08 18.58, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > On Sun Dec08'24 03:05:05PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:05:05 +0000 > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Re: Clean installing Fedora 41 on a Dell Latitude 7450 > > > > > > On Sun, 2024-12-08 at 08:09 -0600, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > > > On Sun Dec08'24 10:47:04AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:47:04 +0000 > > > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > Subject: Re: Clean installing Fedora 41 on a Dell Latitude 7450 > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2024-12-07 at 21:56 -0600, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > > > > > Secure Boot: should this be disabled? I guess so, because it is su[[[osed to ensure that the system only uses validated software (which I guess would be to Windoze). > > > > > > > > > > Not necessary. Fedora includes a shim which complies with the signing > > > > > requirements. > > > > > > > > I see, thank you for this! Do you know which rpm would have this? > > > > > > AFAIK it's just part of the standard kernel RPMs and will install by > > > default. You don't have to do anything special. If Secure Boot is > > > disabled, it will have no effect > > > > As an update, I may have missed something, but I was not even able to boot into the USB with Fedora without disabling SecureBoot. Since I don't know if I value SecureBoot, I disabled it and proceeded. > > > > Many thanks again and best wishes, > > Ranjan > > > > Not sure about current versions of Fedora but in the past, there was a > special image for secure boot systems. You need to have a signed USB stick > for secure boot. I have used secure boot multiple times. On my present > desktop, I have to select USB in the BIOS to boot. Won't do it > automatically. On one machine, will only select USB if the stick is already > in the machine on powerup and then it wasn't clear how to select the USB > stick. > > I also had an issue with burning images to USB recently so it is possible > that the image you burned wasn't setup to be bootable. > > I would test the USB stick and see if it boots in another machine, just to > ensure that it boots. > > I have been using secure boot for years on all my machines Thank you, the USB stick boots just fine even on this machine with SecureBoot disabled. Btw, can I enable the SecureBoot once this has been installed? I still need to figure out about how to enable hibernate. Is there really no official documentation on this? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
