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regarding RFP: efibootnext -- Reboot to Windows via EFI BootNext
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : efibootnext
Version : 0.1.1
Upstream Contact: Thomas Grainger <[email protected]>
* URL : https://github.com/graingert/efibootnext
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Shell
Description : Reboot to Windows via EFI BootNext (BitLocker-safe)
Adds a GRUB menu entry that reboots into Windows (or other EFI OS) by
setting
the EFI BootNext variable from the initramfs, avoiding the need to change
the
default GRUB entry or risk breaking BitLocker by chainloading the Windows
bootloader directly.
Chainloading \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi from GRUB breaks TPM PCR
measurements, causing BitLocker to prompt for a recovery key. Instead,
efibootnext boots a minimal Linux kernel/initramfs that calls efibootmgr
--bootnext and reboots, so the firmware boots Windows natively with correct
TPM
state.
The premount script runs before the LUKS prompt, so there is no need to
enter
the Linux disk encryption password just to boot Windows.
The GRUB menu entry is auto-generated during update-grub -- it detects
Windows
via os-prober, matches the EFI path to a boot entry via efibootmgr, and
finds
the /boot partition via GRUB's prepare_grub_to_access_device, so no manual
configuration is needed.
Debian packaging is already available upstream.
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--- Begin Message ---
Withdrawing this request.
The functionality efibootnext provides -- setting the EFI BootNext
variable from GRUB to reboot into Windows (or another EFI OS) without
chainloading the Windows bootloader -- is now available natively in
GRUB upstream:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/-/tree/3d0a81dc0542e9f246b17c6837444602649cac80
With this in GRUB itself, a separate efibootnext package is no longer
needed, so there is no point pursuing it in Debian. Closing.
Thanks,
Thomas Grainge
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