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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Secure boot switch in EFI
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 05:33:18AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Struggling with vendors that cater mostly for MS Windows users who
> don't really care about Secure Boot being disabled or not, is not the
> way that leads to an available solution. Such vendors are far too
> powerful to bow to the pressures of insignificant pressure groups like
> 'old fashioned' Linux users who do not want to use a 'modern
> distribution'. What I would do, is dedicate a small partition to hold
> a distribution that can actually boot in Secure Mode and I would use
> that to manage my bootloader.
>
> You have the choice of at least two major distributions that work
> under Secure Boot. These are Ubuntu and Debian.
>
> This solution was what I did when GRUB 2 started to behave obstinately
> refusing to install its first stage when completely stripped of an
> operating system.


Except Debian doesn't support Secure Mode yet...


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