Windows 10: My laptop will not boot with secure boot enabled. Do I have to have secure boot enabled to...

I have a 4-year-old Lenovo IdeaPad flex 5 15iil05. It will not boot with secure boot enabled. Does secure boot have to be enabled to upgrade? I know the laptop can run Windows 11 as it ran it before installing Ubuntu. The laptop currently runs Windows 10 just fine and came with digital entitlement attached to hardware that also works on Windows 11. When secure boot is enabled, it will say “Verifying shim SBAT data failed: Security Policy Violation Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT self-check failed: Security Policy Violation” and shuts down. From what I can tell, this is the Lenovo uefi

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When I go into BIOS settings it says in the information tab that secure boot is disabled, but when I go to the security tab, is says that secure boot is enabled. There is a game I want to play that requires secure boot to be enabled. But every time I go to BIOS to enable it, it's either disabled again, or enabled. Either way, it doesn't say that secure boot is enabled and I can't open the game. Please help

 

enable secure boot

Hi ShowMeGirl1

To enable Secure Boot, your PC must have UEFI BIOS and you need to boot your PC into BIOS

Start your PC, on the manufacturers logo screen, there is generally an indication of how to boot your PC into Setup - usually it is F2, or F12 . .

On the Manufacturers Screen, repeatedly press that appropriate key, so your system boots into BIOS

If you do have UEFI, you will see the Secure Boot and legacy Boot options, turn off Legacy Boot (if applicable) and turn on Secure Boot

Also Please Note: to enable Secure Boot, your hard drive must be GPT, not MBR!