Windows 7: Linux Foundation releases Windows Secure Boot fix

What about these Samsung users?
Samsung Laptops Bricked by Booting Linux Using UEFI
It seems that the dreaded nebulous HW/SW mismatch is responsible.

How about Sam Varghese?
From this link:
Secure boot: technical types spreading half-baked information
Sabayon users can't use it.

This restricts anyone who doesn't have 2xHDD or 2xSSD (or some combination).

Fedora users can't use it.

OpenSUSE users can't use it.

Debian users can't use it.

The only party who might benefit from this mess is MS (the OEMs and Linux Distro producers don't).

You're missing the entire point. Any piece of computer that is "certified" for use with Windows 8, as in any computer that gets to party with the Windows 8 sticker, is obliged by Microsoft's requirements to activate UEFI Secure Boot and as a consequence bars any OS that does not have a security key from Microsoft from booting up. Computers that are "certified" for use with Windows 8 are going to make up the majority of the consumer desktop/laptop market. You see where this is going?

Microsoft through their Windows 8 certification program and abuse of UEFI Secure Boot is dictating what operating system a user can run on their hardware, in this case specifically Windows 8 and nothing else, unless the other software vendors and developers in question decide to pay Microsoft for the right to boot up on UEFI Secure Boot-enabled Windows 8-certified PCs.

Microsoft to stop Linux, older Windows, from running on Windows 8 PCs | ZDNet
The link above sums up what Microsoft is doing with UEFI Secure Boot nicely, I believe.

In addition, Microsoft has proven themselves to be anything but expedient and cooperative in distributing security keys even when Linux put up the white flag and decided to buy one in lieu of a workaround around UEFI Secure Boot.

You can say that Microsoft isn't stepping on users' rights all you want, but the fact remains that Microsoft is abusing UEFI Secure Boot in such a way as to forcibly ensure a Windows 8 monopoly on the general consumer PC market.

Please. Any PC that is certified for Windows 8, has mandatory requirement for non-ARM systems to have SecureBoot user configurable, i.e., can turn it off. You want to install something other then Windows 8, turn SecureBoot off. And be done with it. SecureBoot is a none issue.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr.../jj128256.aspx
Under: System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFISecureBoot, Section 18
For the majority of users who use computers (They don't dual-boot, or run some other system). SecureBoot is a damn good thing to have. For us, the minority users which is a very small minority, we can turn it off or configure it. So enough with this bullshit about it taking away user's rights.

As this link is to a post by me, here is a newer article with an update to this info...
AnandTech - Samsung Laptop UEFI Bugs: Not Just for Linux

I posted what I found in case anyone here runs into issues trying to help someone, and knowing this may help solve their problem...

I will admit I was unaware MS had changed its stance from leaving the ability to enable/disable UEFI Secure Boot to the discretion of hardware vendors to mandating that such a feature be present for certification. I stand corrected in that regard and support that mandate.

That said, I still remain skeptical of MS's willingness to act honorably especially when it is obvious MS wants to forcibly make Metro and its associated closed-ecosystem the next big thing. I honestly hate the direction general computing is going and MS's antics certainly aren't helping.