2026-03-23 18:28 UTC
Today on the joys of my new laptop: it seems the CMOS battery is death on arrival.
Which means when I keep the computer in a sleep state that drains battery to the point of it shutting down, I get the very strange experience of the BIOS going back to default settings, with Secure Boot being re-enabled and me being unable to boot because I got rid of Windows.
Strangely, all of the secure boot fields in the AMI (🤮) bios are greyed out, and randomly turning it off and back on, adding and removing admin (so BIOS access) and user (so PC booting permission) passwords and then removing them....
#Weird #BIOS #SecureBoot #Nixos
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@maikel@vmst.io 2026-03-23 18:31
... AND unplugging the charging cable is the dance I had to go through (same as when I removed Windows) to get those fields in editable mode. This time I did something different though, just in case it happens again. I intsalled Limini, Leminu, Luminu or whatever that boot loader is called, then created some keys, then signed some files, I had no fucking clue what I was doing I just followed instructions in wiki.nixos, not to be confused with nixos.wiki....and FINALLY I can now turn on my PC without getting first a message of "secure boot fail" despite it being disabled (once I managed to disable it), which....