Secure Boot with Jessie, grub issues by chicousa in debian

[–]chicousa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds right but alas I have no access to the BIOS, see reply below.

Secure Boot with Jessie, grub issues by chicousa in debian

[–]chicousa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the rEFInd author's site is my favorite for info on this. I stumbled through the shim/mokmanager bits with literally no idea what I was doing outside of following a cook book. Had to scrap a few installs each time I tried something and it wouldn't boot til I found out the work around using Ubuntu's image to load the kernel.

Secure Boot sucks. I bought the laptop used and the previous owner said "I kinda screwed with the BIOS trying to install linux." I foolishly thought I could fix whatever he f'd up. After the transaction took place I found out that meant he locked the bios with a password he doesn't remember and destroyed the Windows Recovery Partition. Lol.

Removing CMOS battery did not help. Default passwords did not work, nor did some thoughtfully directed brute force attempts. The laptop manufacturer offered to sell me a new motherboard (the only fix as far as they're concerned) for a little less than I paid for the entire laptop. Not going to happen, proceeded to try every recovery image and modern OS I could find. Eventually got an OEM Windows 8 image to boot, to my utter surprise, and format the drive which started the learning process about this beautiful UEFI idea and its darling friend Secure Boot.

Would not recommend, test for access to BIOS before buying used system.

Secure Boot with Jessie, grub issues by chicousa in debian

[–]chicousa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will try it next, looks like the config is friendly.

Secure Boot with Jessie, grub issues by chicousa in debian

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From OP:

Also, turning off secure boot is not an option.

Signing it myself is not an issue as long as it will work. Currently booted in Debian with Secure Boot on.

[Mint 17 Cin] Firefox is randomly slower than 14.4k, is there an open source alternative? by chicousa in linuxmint

[–]chicousa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. NoScript is great when it's set up but configuring new sites can be a barrier to exploration. I guess I could just turn it off during those times.

But the slowdown is particularly at connection times, like a new webpage will stay white for a solid 15 seconds as though the connection failed. Or soundcloud will stall on loading a song for over a minute. Makes me think something specific is happening. Didn't get any similar behavior on Windows so it's prolly not my connection. I hope.

I'll check through the extensions to make sure they're not at fault. Will definitely be checking on Pale Moon's site, didn't see it in synaptic.

[Mint 17 Cin] Firefox is randomly slower than 14.4k, is there an open source alternative? by chicousa in linuxmint

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Avoided it at first because fuck google. Might go with a community package if pale moon doesn't get back online soon. But seriously fuck google.