# Secureboot error in acer laptop **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/secureboot-error-in-acer-laptop/24052 **Category:** Questions **Created:** 2025-01-16T15:55:18Z **Posts:** 27 ## Post 1 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T15:55:18Z Recenty i bought a laptop called acer swift go and i have plan to install linux on that but i find many issues mainly secureboot I cant boot fedora or ubuntu with secure boot turned on i hope this community have many users who have a deep knowledge about if they could help. ![Gha02mAbsAAAvRO](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/9/9cbcf0988468688072c12d6d590f44371514e3f8.jpeg) This is the error Here is my bios settings I don’t want to use windows… --- ## Post 2 by @KevPham — 2025-01-16T16:04:03Z ~~If you’re trying to install Linux on a computer with Secure Boot on, it won’t work. You need to disable Secure Boot before installing your preferred Linux distribution. Afterwards, you can reenable it in BIOS.~~ ~~If anything, it is a good thing that it failed since that is the entire point of Secure Boot. Just don’t forget to turn it back on afterwards~~ :slight_smile: --- ## Post 3 by @KevPham — 2025-01-16T16:09:17Z Also, do you have Nvidia drivers? Secure Boot tends to make some features not work very well out of box (i.e. Hibernate) --- ## Post 4 by @anon48875053 — 2025-01-16T16:17:38Z Why? That’s not how it’s supposed to work. --- ## Post 5 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T17:29:37Z It is a ryzen 7 ultra book does not have any dedicated gpu. --- ## Post 6 by @KevPham — 2025-01-16T17:31:12Z Oh my bad. That hasn’t been a concern for some distributions recently. To correct myself, it really depends on a bunch of other factors that could make secure boot not work --- ## Post 7 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T17:31:20Z 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… --- ## Post 8 by @jonah — 2025-01-16T17:33:58Z @brivacy what did you use to create the installer, the official Fedora Media Creation Tool, or some third-party disk writing software? --- ## Post 9 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T17:37:17Z 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 [X.com](http://X.com) Also asked in fedora > **[I can't boot my acer laptop with fedora with secureboot on](https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/i-cant-boot-my-acer-laptop-with-fedora-with-secureboot-on/142568)** > > 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 Also in acer community… --- ## Post 10 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T17:40:33Z 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. --- ## Post 11 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T17:46:52Z 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](https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=271043) > **[[Fixed] "No Bootable Device" Error After Installing Ubuntu](https://itsfoss.com/no-bootable-device-found-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. --- ## Post 12 by @jonah — 2025-01-16T17:47:51Z 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. --- ## Post 13 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T17:57:39Z 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. --- ## Post 14 by @jonah — 2025-01-16T18:00:06Z 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. --- ## Post 15 by @brivacy — 2025-01-16T18:25:10Z 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. --- ## Post 16 by @anon39279085 — 2025-01-16T20:58:36Z I mean you can disable secure boot and go on about your day if you would like… --- ## Post 17 by @faxe — 2025-01-16T22:12:42Z 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](https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/acer-swift-go-14-compatibility-issues/133686) and [this issue](https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4923) 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”. --- ## Post 18 by @Astatine — 2025-01-16T23:43:35Z Fwiw, Ventoy, as far as I’m aware, isn’t a good option due to an **huge** security issue. Please take a look at: > **[oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise](https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4)** [https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795](https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795) > **[Aaron Rainbolt (@arraybolt3@theres.life)](https://theres.life/@arraybolt3/112910860206028596)** > > #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](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/ventoy-security-concerns/20058): > > [https://theres.life/@arraybolt3/112910860206028596](https://theres.life/@arraybolt3/112910860206028596) 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! --- ## Post 19 by @brivacy — 2025-01-17T05:13:47Z But in live boot evrything works except my fingerprint --- ## Post 20 by @brivacy — 2025-01-17T05:16:37Z > [@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. --- ## Post 22 by @faxe — 2025-01-17T09:58:22Z IIRC it was [usb device]/efi/boot/bootx64.efi --- ## Post 23 by @anon73250778 — 2025-01-17T13:23:56Z Have you tried `Erase Secure Boot Setting` and the do the `Restore Secure Boot to F`actory Default? --- ## Post 24 by @brivacy — 2025-01-17T14:17:41Z yes i have done everything --- ## Post 25 by @brivacy — 2025-01-17T16:50:56Z Buddy plz help i really need to chnage my os. --- ## Post 26 by @faxe — 2025-01-17T17:20:18Z 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. --- ## Post 27 by @brivacy — 2025-01-17T19:45:00Z Yes it worked @jonah it solved the issue thanks you and everyone.