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| | blog.dowhile0.org
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| | Every once in a while there is a discussion in the Fedora development list about replacing the default GRUB bootloader. That latest of these threads was "future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux" about a month ago, but searching for GRUB in the mailing list archives one can find many similar conversations. One of...
| | linderud.dev
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| | A few months ago I wrote up some code for mkinitcpio which teaches it how to create UEFI executables utilizing the systemd stub. The change can be found here: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/pull/53 This is a short introduction to why the feature is great, how it makes it easier to boot your system, and how it can be used to better secure your system with something like secure boot. The Boot Process For the past decade most computers have two ways to boot.
| | www.linuxjournal.com
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| | [AI summary] A comprehensive guide on implementing UEFI Secure Boot to secure computers from malicious code, including generating keys, installing custom certificates, building signed standalone GRUB bootloaders, and configuring full disk encryption to defend against physical attacks.
| | gabevenberg.com
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| I've been using Arch Linux for several years now. Of course, my first installs were... blunderous, as i wanted to do full disk encryption from the get-go, and I didn't know what I was doing. After those first one or two installs, I generally settled on LVM on LUKS with a GRUB bootloader and my swap on an LVM volume, mostly because it makes it much easier to setup hibernation/suspend to disk vs, say, a swap file.