Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?
On 15/07/2015, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives
> to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels. I've been
> out of the community for a few months, so I haven't kept up with this,
> but quick searches don't reveal a change in policy.
>
> (And I am definitely not arguing for a change in policy, for anyone
> who might misread me.)
>
> I have a netbook that allows secure boot to be disabled. As long as I
> don't need to boot MSWindows, I just disable secure boot. (I don't
> perceive any real advantage in Microsoft's implementation, anyway.)
>
> But I have some work coming up that requires dual-booting MSWindows,
> and I also might want to use debian (rather than Ubuntu or Fedora) as
> a host for developing for Android.
>
> (I am able to boot openbsd from an outboard USB3 drive and keep it
> running long enough to build a snapshot release. That's roughly a day,
> plus or minus a few hours. So I have one good option. But I'd really
> prefer not to spend too much time running the OS itself from an
> outboard device whose connection can slip or get noisy from oxidation
> so easily.)
>
> So, I'd like to ask those who for whatever reason dual-boot debian
> with MSWindows on a modern MSW8/10 compliant box, what do you do about
> keys?
>
> And I'm also interested in war stories relative to (dual) booting from
> GPT partitions.
>
I suggest that you search the archives regarding this - I believe that
it has been extensively discussed, this year.
On this computer, I have MSWin8 installed via UEFI, and Debian 6 and 7
and Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 installed via Legacy BIOS. on a GPT system.
Each has booted without significant problems, the Linux installations
booting using GRUB.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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