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9acca9

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Registered: 2017-02-03

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Secure boot, in dual boot, must be disable? or... archboot?

Hi.
The documentation is always up to date? (sorry the ignorance). I mean, if i read something in the documentation, then that is the state of the art?

Because i read this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows

Arch Linux install media does not support Secure Boot yet. See Secure Boot#Booting an installation medium.

And
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unifie … ion_medium

There has been no support for Secure Boot in the official installation medium ever since.

And

Archboot images provide a way to use secure boot on installation media.

Then i have to install archboot?

EDIT: oh... https://release.archboot.com/aarch64/latest/ it seems that it is here... But, what you have to do with all this? i look at the https://archboot.com but nothing is too clear for me. Also it seems that nobody create a tutorial or something. i will look at the forum that seems to have some links but if any here can give a hand, i will be glad :-)
Thanks

Last edited by 9acca9 (2024-12-09 22:18:16)

jl2

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Re: Secure boot, in dual boot, must be disable? or... archboot?

The point is vanilla/official Arch Linux does not support secure boot. Some of it's knock-offs do, like Archboot.
You can temporarily disable secure boot, install Arch linux (with encryption, otherwise it's pointless), then enroll your own keys into the firmware *or* use a signed boot loader as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unifie … ecure_Boot

Beware that windows encryption will not like bootloaders that are not signed with it's own keys, this can be bypassed by setting the bootnext variable and rebooting directly to it, some bootloaders have this feature implemented.
Also, windows bitlocker encryption does not work if secure boot is disabled, and IIRC you cannot reenable it on the standard windows home license! check this before disabling it!

Last edited by jl2 (2024-12-10 08:05:20)

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Re: Secure boot, in dual boot, must be disable? or... archboot?

Some of it's knock-offs do, like Archboot

Archboot was created by tpowa, who is an Arch developer, so it's not quite a "knock-off", more of a re-spin, if you will

@OP: there's really no benefit to booting the installation ISO with SecureBoot enabled and support can be provisioned after installing so I always just disable SecureBoot to install Arch.

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