How do I disable secure boot on an Aspire V5-171?
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Acer-Tommy wrote:Yes, you MUST set UEFI to Legacy to disable that.
This is factually incorrect. The option to disable Secure Boot becomes available when a supervisor password is set.
Acer-Tommy wrote:You were asking about installing Ubuntu ... nothing about keeping Windows 8 bootable.
I mentioned Ubuntu as my motivation for asking about Secure Boot so that the term would appear on this page and help guide others who are searching the web for solutions to the same problem. I'm sorry it mislead you.
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You want this article:
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Thank you, but no, I don't. Those instructions will cause Windows 8 to fail to boot.
Apparently I wasn't clear enough earlier. This is the setting I'm asking about:
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Yes, you MUST set UEFI to Legacy to disable that.
You were asking about installing Ubuntu ... nothing about keeping Windows 8 bootable.
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Acer-Tommy wrote:Yes, you MUST set UEFI to Legacy to disable that.
This is factually incorrect. The option to disable Secure Boot becomes available when a supervisor password is set.
Acer-Tommy wrote:You were asking about installing Ubuntu ... nothing about keeping Windows 8 bootable.
I mentioned Ubuntu as my motivation for asking about Secure Boot so that the term would appear on this page and help guide others who are searching the web for solutions to the same problem. I'm sorry it mislead you.
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Set a Supervisor Password from BIOS, then you will be able to disable Secure Boot.
http://community.acer.com/t5/Acer-Tablets/w510-Why-is-Secure-Boot/m-p/10445#M817
That worked for me. Continuing on installing linuxes
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