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    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Everything about secure boot is a mistake.

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 172 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I would disagree. The idea is great; eliminate preboot malware by trusting the whole boot stack. It has a place in computing and I would like to see it be something easier to work with.

    Pretty much everything about how it's currently implemented is a mistake, I'll agree with.

    [–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    More like who is implementing it. Take MS out of the picture and set it as an open standard.

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    It is open, oddly enough. It's just that nobody ships anything other than Microsoft's keys. You can add your own. It's just that it is a tedious, manual process.

    [–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

    Depends on the distro! I could do it in 5 minutes with my bazzite installation: https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/secure_boot/

    Very happy surprise when setting up my new PC :)

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Microsoft has unofficial support for ext4 for their EFI partitions on their azure cloud, which in itself is a violation of their standard.

    [–] libewa@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    UEFI doesn't forbid you from implementing additional file systems, it just requires everyone to support UEFI-FAT. iBoot for example supports booting from HFS volumes.

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    And who has that implementation?

    [–] libewa@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    iBoot is the bootloader on all Apple products.

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] libewa@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    You are free to implement any filesystem driver, and either load it in your custom implementation of EFI, or from an EFI image stored on a FAT partition. The EfiFs project provides many drivers under a GPL, including exFAT, Btrfs, ext2-4, NTFS, ISO9660 (cdfs), ZFS and also HFS(+).

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

    Ooh thanks I need to explore this thing!