Bug#909718: debian-live: it is a UEFI 32 only system.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:39:22PM +0200, beta-tester wrote:
>Package: debian-live
>Followup-For: Bug #909718
>
>Dear MaintaineSteve McIntyre,
>
>my system have UEFI 32 only, a "legacy" BIOS mode does not exist.
>
>i can not disable SecureBoot.
>the Windows System Partition is encrypted by BitLocker on the har drive,
>and i saw a video where somebody disabled SecureBoot to boot Linux Live
>and after re-enabling SecureBoot later to boot into Windows again,
>the system run into BitLocker Recovery mode,
>and he had to use BitLocker Recovery to decrypt and re-encrypt everything again.
>
>so disabling SecureBoot will destroy the stored BitLocker-key somehow.
>
>thats because disabling SecureBoot is not an option.
OK, so that's a limitation on your system.
>why are UEFI32 only tablet/netbook users disadvantaged or excluded
>from using Linux / Debian?
>i mean to me it looks like it is only a matter of providing proper signed
>grub-efi-ai32-signed package or shim-signed or what ever packages are involved.
We're working on providing appropriate signed packages for various
architectures, but we're not 100% there yet. We already support 32-bit
UEFI systems in general, but if something else is stopping you from
disabling Secure Boot then that is a blocker *for now*.
>or is Debian Linux Live friendly only for big customers with big hardware?
I don't understand why you're making that unhelpful comment.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works
anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped."
-― Andy Weir, "The Martian"
Reply to: