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. st...@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"
