Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:

> As I already mentioned the last time this has come up: Why can we not, 
> instead of chainloading Windows directly, chainload a systemd-boot 
> configured to always bootnext to Windows? 

Pretty sure shim still hard codes the name grub$arch.efi as the 2nd bootloader. Hence having to rename sd-boot as grubx64.efi for shim to find and run it. They can't co-exist right now. Also, there's no current plan by anyone to add systemd-boot for Secure Boot signing.

>GRUB would still think it boots 
> Windows directly. (I do not see why it would notice any difference, all that 
> would change is the name of the image that gets chainloaded.) And systemd-
> boot does not need to know that it is being chainloaded from GRUB. So I do 
> not see why that would not work, without any changes to the software.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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