Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-24 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 05:56:14PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Hi, > > Dual boot has been a pretty important use case for Fedora Workstation > edition and the desktop spins. It sounds to me like it is time to punt the problem to the firmware on UEFI systems. Make sure we don't clobber existing W

Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:35 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > A work around is having GRUB set an NVRAM variable indicating the next > > boot should be Windows. That's an instruction to the firmware, so > > there's no intermediary, thus measured boot works. The next boo

Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:56 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > And my understanding is it's required for > Windows 11 preinstallations. Except if your country has required that TPM not be used, and as Microsoft did not want to prevent billions of people from using Windows 11 those locations are exempt f

Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Chris Murphy wrote: > A work around is having GRUB set an NVRAM variable indicating the next > boot should be Windows. That's an instruction to the firmware, so > there's no intermediary, thus measured boot works. The next boot (from > Windows) would boot Fedora again. GRUB can't get or set EFI var

future of dual-boot on the desktop

2022-02-23 Thread Chris Murphy
Hi, Dual boot has been a pretty important use case for Fedora Workstation edition and the desktop spins. There are final release criterion that apply to Windows and macOS (notably not Fedora itself or any other Linux distros): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Final_Release_Criteria#Window