Secureboot error in acer laptop

brivacy · 2025-01-16T17:31:20.064Z

No not true i have other device where i can boot live with a fedora media without turning off secure boot i can easily use fedora on that…

jonah · 2025-01-16T17:33:58.999Z

@brivacy what did you use to create the installer, the official Fedora Media Creation Tool, or some third-party disk writing software?

brivacy · 2025-01-16T17:37:17.716Z

I have used fedora media writer from fedora first make a ubuntu bootable
Next with Rufus in windows fedora workstation bootable with iso and next in dd more both in gpt and mbr mode but does not work show me that error…
I have asked acer also
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Fedora Discussion – 16 Jan 25

I can't boot my acer laptop with fedora with secureboot on

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If i turn secure boot off i can easily boot into ubuntu or fedora but if i turn secure boot on I can’t boot linux without turning off secureboot. Here is bios settings of my device

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brivacy · 2025-01-16T17:40:33.041Z

I am thinking if ventoy could solve the issue…which is the last option left after that i had to install fedora without secure boot.
If you need any details you can ask me btw.

brivacy · 2025-01-16T17:46:52.890Z

Btw at first i really want to thank you guys for helping me here. I really appreciate that.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=271043

It's FOSS – 23 Aug 15

[Fixed] "No Bootable Device" Error After Installing Ubuntu

Did you install Linux afresh or perhaps dual booted it? And now your system shows ‘no bootable device’ error while booting? Here’s what you could do to fix the issue.

But with fedora i dont see this efi options
Let me send this.

jonah · 2025-01-16T17:47:51.330Z

What they said in the Fedora forum is also what I am thinking.

This sounds like the signing keys in bios are not what are expected by the OS so the system will not load the kernel with secure boot.

You might be able to use that “Select an UEFI file as trusted for executing” option in your BIOS to get past this.

Unfortunately I’m not familiar enough with Acer to know much more than this. Everything with Linux “should” work with secure boot in theory these days, but many individual manufacturers have buggy UEFIs and secure boot implementations that can make it a bit of a crap shoot. Worst case you can try installing without secure boot and then enabling secure boot after installation, which isn’t ideal but sometimes necessary.

brivacy · 2025-01-16T17:57:39.029Z

acer seems like the worse brand i have ever seen.
i have installed on dell msi and lenovo.
i personally have a dell system apple system and a msi modern laptop amd one i have never soon bios this complicated.

jonah · 2025-01-16T18:00:06.346Z

Yeah I suppose it is kind of pointless since you already have the laptop but Acer is probably dead last on my list of manufacturers I’d ever consider.

brivacy · 2025-01-16T18:25:10.860Z

I am still looking into how i can install linux in that devices the worse part is no one have made a video that show the process…If you know someone if they can help me. Fix.

GorujoCY · 2025-01-16T20:58:36.570Z

I mean you can disable secure boot and go on about your day if you would like…

faxe · 2025-01-16T22:12:42.773Z

I have an SFG14-72 and installed Fedora on it.
In the UEFI in the “Security” tab you can “Select an UEFI file as trusted for executing” and Secure Boot shouldn’t complain.
After you finished the installation this discussion and this issue will likely be relevant to you since by default fedora doesn’t recognize the speakers and only shows them as a non-working “Dummy Output”.

Astatine · 2025-01-16T23:43:35.392Z

Fwiw, Ventoy, as far as I’m aware, isn’t a good option due to an huge security issue. Please take a look at:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

[issue]: Remove BLOBs from the source tree

opened 05:47AM - 03 Apr 24 UTC

FairyTail2000

### What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'…m appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/cryptsetup https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/Unix/ventoy_unix https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/DMSETUP There is no reason to have those not be build in the release process. Of course it's convenient, they are prebuild, it's fast and nobody has a problem with it. Recent events however showed that these BLOBs can contain everything and nothing. The build instructions would not produce the exact same executable for everyone. It's better to have GitHub build it on-push and use them out of the build cache. I would do it myself, but unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the Ventoy build process to actually do it. I understand that removing BLOBs isn't a priority over new and shiny features. But due to recent events, this should be rethought. Thank you for reading this and I hope for a productive conversation

There's Life – 5 Aug 24

Aaron Rainbolt (@arraybolt3@theres.life)

#Ventoy Security Concerns (please boost for visibility) Ventoy is a popular utility for making USB drives containing multiple operating systems in the form of bootable image files. While very useful in theory, the source tree contains numerous...

Ventoy Security Concerns Privacy

While very useful in theory, the source tree contains numerous binary blobs without source code. This issue has been brought up to the authors multiple times, have not been corrected, and have even gotten worse (more blobs have been added to the code over time). This is a potential malware vector, similar to the “test files” in the xz-utils backdoor catastrophe… Very worrying!

brivacy · 2025-01-17T05:13:47.625Z

But in live boot evrything works except my fingerprint

brivacy · 2025-01-17T05:16:37.145Z

faxe:

the UEFI in the “Security” tab you can “Select an UEFI file as trusted for executing” and Secure Boot shouldn’t complain.

Which file i need to select… Can you help.

faxe · 2025-01-17T09:58:22.211Z

IIRC it was [usb device]/efi/boot/bootx64.efi

HauntSanctuary · 2025-01-17T13:23:56.347Z

Have you tried Erase Secure Boot Setting and the do the Restore Secure Boot to Factory Default?

brivacy · 2025-01-17T14:17:41.350Z

yes i have done everything

brivacy · 2025-01-17T16:50:56.677Z

Buddy plz help i really need to chnage my os.

faxe · 2025-01-17T17:20:18.096Z

I have noted down what exactly I did, but since I will not be home for the next two weeks I can’t check. For me it worked after selecting a UEFI file as trusted and I think the file was the one I mentioned above.

brivacy · 2025-01-17T19:45:00.025Z

Yes it worked @jonah it solved the issue thanks you and everyone.

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