OT_Re: no grub after installing fedora23

[Chris Murphy]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 2:29 PM, maderios <maderios at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/25/2015 10:00 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 2:50 PM, maderios <maderios at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Secure boot' is just a windows problem. In Linux world, nobody uses
>>> 'Secure
>>> Boot'. In Windows world, they need it and they use it because Windows
>>> system
>>> is 'natively' insecured.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nonsense.  Secure Boot secures Linux systems against rootkits, as
>> well, by prohibiting unsigned content
>
>
> Its' Redhat point of view...
> I'm not specialist but, historically,  I know Redhat dev asked Linus
> Torvalds patch kernel with 'secure boot'
> Linus Torvalds answer (2013):

You need to read the whole thread. It wasn't about just secure boot
yes or no in general. It had to do with enabling the use of keys in
PEs instead of only depending on X509 support in the kernel:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1445369/focus=1445405

and

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1445369/focus=1445405

Are good summaries.



-- 
Chris Murphy