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May 2nd, 2019 11:00
UEFI Secure Boot on 12th Gen PowerEdge
I was looking into the possibility of UEFI secure boot on an R820, and I found an interesting note in the Lifecycle Controller documentation:
"The Secure Boot feature is supported on the Dell 12th generation PowerEdge servers, only if BIOS on the system supports this feature"
So I was wondering, what 12th-gen BIOS/hardware supports secure boot? As far as I can tell, secure boot didn't appear in the iDRAC manual until iDRAC 8, only on 13th Gen servers? Is this right?
On the R820 I'm looking at, I have iDRAC 7/Lifecycle Controller v2.61.60.60 and BIOS v2.4.1. I cannot find anywhere in the BIOS or Lifecycle Controller that mentions secure boot. I believe that is the latest iDRAC I can install, and the BIOS v2.5.0 update only mentions security updates for Spectre.
So does anyone have a 12th Gen server that supports secure boot? Is there any way to get it on an R820?
Daniel My
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May 2nd, 2019 14:00
Hello
You should review the system manual for system BIOS information. You can find the system manual on the support page of the system. I cannot find anything that states the R820 supports secure boot. I checked multiple PowerEdge servers, it appears secure boot is not a common feature until 14th generation.
http://www.dell.com/support/
Thanks
Chaos89
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May 2nd, 2019 11:00
EDIT: Moved to PowerEdge board:
https://www.dell.com/community/PowerEdge-Hardware-General/UEFI-Secure-Boot-on-12th-Gen-PowerEdge/m-p/7293826
Chaos89
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May 2nd, 2019 22:00
That is what I figured, I just thought the note in the Lifecycle Controller manual was odd. Maybe a typo? I did check the system manual, and also found no reference to secure boot. Thank you for double checking, I was just wondering if I had missed something.