I was doing my full image backup with Clonezilla today and found the secure boot option had been enabled on an Intel NUC. Good idea which I will carry forward but suprised me as it is a BIOS option.
Has anyone noticed M$ turning on secure boot
- Thread starter Duckpaddle
- Start date
- Watchers 3
-
Be sure to checkout “Tips & Tricks” Dear Guest Visitor → Once you register and log-in please checkout the “Tips & Tricks” page for some very handy tips!
/Steve. -
BootAble – FreeDOS boot testing freeware
To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.
GRC's “BootAble” freeware allows anyone to easily create BIOS-bootable media in order to workout and confirm the details of getting a machine to boot FreeDOS through a BIOS. Once the means of doing that has been determined, the media created by SpinRite can be booted and run in the same way.
The participants here, who have taken the time to share their knowledge and experience, their successes and some frustrations with booting their computers into FreeDOS, have created a valuable knowledgebase which will benefit everyone who follows.
You may click on the image to the right to obtain your own copy of BootAble. Then use the knowledge and experience documented here to boot your computer(s) into FreeDOS. And please do not hesitate to ask questions – nowhere else can better answers be found.
(You may permanently close this reminder with the 'X' in the upper right.)
Do you ever update your BIOS (or do you have a utility from Intel that will do so?) Recent BIOSes from ASUS and Gigabyte (the only brands I have around that have received updates) have made changes specific to Windows 11 to default enable the necessary support (so Secure Boot and TPM support.)
In my over 15 years I've never seen M$ randomly enable secure boot, maybe you accidentally did one of the above or enabled it.
Were any other settings changed?
Nope, this is a machine I maintain. The operator wouldn't have the motivation to navigate in the BIOS to this settings. I would have been called if this popped up. As this is an Intel NUC it could have been an update pushed through M$ to the device.
