Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:12 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> >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.
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Put more directly: Microsoft will revoke our shim if we use
anything but GRUB as the stage-two bootloader.

Cf. https://github.com/rhboot/shim/issues/472#issuecomment-1118628769



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