Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM Anil F Duggirala
<anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> hello everyone,
>
> I am looking to install the Nvidia proprietary driver in my Debian 12 machine. This is a clean install on a Dell XPS 9550 laptop.
>
> I have Secure boot enabled. The instructions say that I need to enroll an mok key (have no idea what that means).
>
> Running the command: sudo mokutil --import /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
> Outputs: Failed to get file status, /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
>
> There is in fact no folder named dkms in my /var/lib directory.

Have you had a look at
<https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#MOK_-_Machine_Owner_Key>? Did you
create the key using mokutil?

Jeff