Disbale Secure Boot on a Secure Appliance

[julian.bendix]

Hey friends,

found various threads about disabling Secure Boot on Secure Appliances based on UCS C-Series. But it is not clear to me if anyone ever managed to do so.

Got a FMC 4600 based on UCS C220 M5 at hand. Would be one hell of a waste throwing the whole box to the trash.. but can't get around the Secure Boot ...

Any updates on this topic, or really not possible in any way?  

BR Jules

[Brian Morrissey · Accepted solution]

Typically with those security appliances it is forced on with a chain of trust that only allow them to boot certain signed images to ensure integrity of the appliance. 

[julian.bendix]

Hey Brian!

Understandable but unfortunate for my situation, thanks for the reply!!

BR Jules

[Elliot Dierksen]

You could easily scavenge the rest of the components. All you would really need is a new motherboard. You could reuse everything else including the CPU's. It is probably cheaper on eBay to get a chassis with the motherboard even though that is a bit wasteful.

[julian.bendix]

Already did! Thanks Elliot!