Re: future of dual-boot on the desktop

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:35 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 boot (from
> > Windows) would boot Fedora again. GRUB can't get or set EFI variables
> > yet. systemd-boot, meanwhile, will be supporting BootNext in their
> > next release.
>
> So, can we not, in GRUB, instead of chainloading the Windows bootloader,
> chainload a systemd-boot copy preconfigured to BootNext to Windows?

No because systemd-boot isn't signed with a Fedora Secure  Boot
signing key, so on systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, they'd fail
to load systemd-boot.

But also, this isn't an upstreamable solution, so the Fedora and Red
Hat bootloader teams are unlikely to support it either.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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