On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Paul Cartwright
<pbcartwri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2015 12:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> When UEFI Secure Boot is enabled, which it should be if available,
>> especially on a system with Window on it, you need the distro signed
>> shim.efi and grubx64.efi on the EFI system partition. If you use
>> grub-install the signed copy is wiped out, and the system won't boot
>> until you disable Secure Boot.
>>
>> So in a UEFI Secure Boot world, grub-install (and grub2-install) is obsolete.
>>
>> This bug is still annoying, and I wonder if it should be a blocker bug.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170245
> my system originally came with windows 10. I seem to recall that from
> what I read, you needed to disable secure boot to install linux & grub..

That's incorrect, and it's bad advice to continue to propagate.
Assertions is should be disabled should be vigorously challenged.

-- 
Chris Murphy
-- 
users mailing list
users@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Reply via email to