Secure Boot

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Hello,

1st, I am an old school user from the Mandrake Linux days, before Mandriva, and now OpenMandriva. I love that you kept the project going.

Now onto the topic –

I downloaded the latest ROME release (yesterday, March 30, 2025). The ISO was titled: openmandriva.rome-24.12-plasma6.wayland.x86_64. I used Fedora Image Writer to burn the ISO to USB, rebooted my PC, and selected the USB, only to discover the USB did not boot (brought me right back to the UEFI menu).

I plan to dual boot and am already using secure boot on the other OS. But this is something I feel the development needs to resolve, because recently I learned there are HP Computers that do not even have the option to disable secure boot (thankfully, my Dell does).

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Welcome! We are glad to see you.

We don’t have the microsoft keys installed. We have a small team and we have had other priorities lately.

This version is a bit newer. It may work better for you.

https://abf.openmandriva.org/platforms/rolling/products/178/product_build_lists/3642

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The news ISO, did not allow me to boot from the USB using secure boot. But I used it anyway and disabled secure boot.

In the future, when time allows, that should be worked on. As I said in my original post, there are some PCs that do not have the option to disable secure boot. Thankfully, I am not one of those people.

I want to thank you for the speedy reply, and also for your willingness to help. It was very much appreciated, and the newer ISO was still usable.

On a side note, I have been making a list of digital services, outside Us Jurisdiction, and I have added OpenMandriva to the list ( codeberg dot org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction/src/branch/main/Operating_System.md)

I hope it gets the word out about this wonderful developed. I am really happy that it has continued all these years, and I look forward to seeing it progress.

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You are more than welcome to use resources on the web to see if this can be achieved. This one may provide some insight:

It may be the case that some OEM’s will not allow disabling secure boot in the BIOS, but it’s not a major show stopper for new installs of OMLx currently. It should still not prevent the live USB from booting.

I would recommend dd, etcher, or Ventoy (we recently fixed that for new ISO’s, I think). The results may not be good when using other tools. If you are on Windows, you can use Rufus in dd mode.

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I used etcher. The USB would not boot with secure boot enabled. I select the USB and it brings me right back to the UEFI boot menu.

I can disable secure boot and it boots just fine. It seems like secure boot is not supported.

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Secure boot is not supported. We don’t have the Microsoft Keys installed. Some are able to get by with TPM turned on, but most of us had to turn that off and hide it from the OS.

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Is it possible to rely on Fedora instead of Microsoft?

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Everyone uses the Microsoft Keys as far as I understand.

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Let’s just be frank about it. If you NEED secure boot. Do not install this OS. Please use one that has it. At some point we may, but not today. Not everyone will tell you that. We will. :grinning:

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There is a word for people that know they are not familiar with OpenMandriva Linux that don’t read the Release Notes.

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I was under the impression they (Fedora) had their own. But Fedora likes to toot their own horn, so it is possible I was mislead.

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Most people don’t read documentation until they need to do so, but rather just act. I am guilty of this.

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We have all done it.

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I have marked this as the solution.

I do not need “secure boot” on my personal PC. But will need it on my work PC. So one PC will have OpenMandriva and the other Solus Linux.

Thanks for your time and consideration. :slight_smile:

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