Secure Boot Won’t Stay Disabled
27 Jun
Let me just state from the start – as an IT tech I *loathe* Secure Boot. I understand the goal is to strengthen the security of boot time when rootkit viruses can really cause problems. But it is SUCH a hassle when trying to troubleshoot and debug systems that are having problems.
Obviously the thing to do is just disable it. Want to boot into a Rescue CD? Secure Boot won’t let you. I have a system in the shop now that passes all HW tests. But the operating system will NOT boot. Auto repair fails. Attempting a refresh fails immediately. So deeper debugging is warranted. All I needed to do was disable Secure Boot. Easy enough usually…
- Go into BIOS and find the Secure Boot and Legacy Boot settings.
- Disable Secure Boot/Enable Legacy Boot.
- Apply settings to BIOS and Reboot
- Hit ESC to bring up the HP Startup Menu and select the LiveCD
Simple enough, right?
Chalk up one more grey hair to Windows 8, Secure Boot, and all the other recent ‘improvements’. At least HP had a very detailed article outlining Secure Boot and turning it off…
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5 Responses for "Secure Boot Won’t Stay Disabled"
Yea worked for me, haha. Thanx
Thank you, this saved me.
THANK YOU! Wasted 2 hours on this before I found your post. What a terrible design. Tell us we have to double confirm this thing on boot. Good grief.
I have been smashing my face against my keyboard trying to figure this out for the past 2 days. Every other site talks about stuff that doesn’t matter and not relevant. This has saved me and my laptop can now load the USB. Thank you for this. Couldn’t believe it was as simple as DON’T HIT THE ESC KEY, lol. Patience is key here.
It still won’t work
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