Multibooting UX, how well it ought to work

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 30, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:09:01PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
>> Ok for long term. In the next two weeks before freeze is it possible 
>> to modify the grub2-efi package spec file GRUB_MODULES= so that the 
>> grux64.efi has xnu, xnu_uuid, xnu_uuid_test modules baked in? That 
>> would fix the main problem in bug 893179 so that the first two OS X 
>> entries would then have a chance of working.
> 
> Not unless somebody writes signature checking support for them, no.

Ahh. So without that, it'd be possible to execute arbitrary code masquerading as xnu on a Secure Boot system?


Chris Murphy