UEFI Build Test

[Teddy]

UEFI Secure Boot support probably won't be included in LL 3.0. It will need to be added sooner or later, that's for sure, for those who want a no fuss install on a UEFI Secure Boot machine preinstalled with Windows 8 + versions thereafter. On my HP Laptop (Pavilion TouchSmart 11-e015dx) Ubuntu worked with the UEFI boot option via USB. Linux Lite has run this machine for a few years in Legacy BIOS mode (some machines call this mode "CSM"). On some HP machines, the UEFI firmware defaults to UEFI first, and then Legacy if nothing is found, and I have not found an option to override this behaviour (It even says somewhere in the owner's manual, I vaguely remember) I'm not sure how the UEFI support is implemented in regular desktop Ubuntu and a handful of other distros, maybe a specialized kernel provides that support?


More than likely by the time Linux Lite 4 comes around, UEFI support will have been tested rigorously and working.