OT_Re: no grub after installing fedora23

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Sun Dec 27 00:58:27 UTC 2015


On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oops.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1445516

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1447326

and




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Chris Murphy


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