Secure Boot Off for PXE Imaging

“Wait… secure boot is disabled on the sims?” Yep — surprise! It's not an accident

or a misconfiguration. It’s because we’re using PXE booting, which gives us full control over how

these systems start up. By booting over the network, we can image,

reimage, and recover machines in minutes, all without touching local disks or fighting

firmware locks. That’s where FOG shines — centralized imaging, snap deployments,

hardware-agnostic drivers, and rapid recovery when something breaks. Need to reset a

sim? Push an update? Clone a perfect setup across the fleet?

Done. Disabling secure boot lets PXE do its thing, and in return we