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Installing Debian on secure boot blocked system
Posted: 2017-10-11 16:01
by woteb
Is it possible to install Debian on a system where secure boot can not be disabled. If so, how do you do that?
Re: Installing Debian on secure boot blocked system
Posted: 2017-10-11 16:32
by Head_on_a_Stick
Dual boot with a distribution that does support Secure Boot (such as Fedora, openSUSE or Ubuntu) and use the other distribution to install and control GRUB.
Alternatively, use a "live" version of Ubuntu to install Debian with debootstrap [1] and then try the Linux Foundation's Secure Boot system:
https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linu ... -released/
I did have that working with wheezy but my UEFI laptop is no longer UEFI so I can't test it now.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch ... 03.html.en
EDIT: you could also try some self-signed keys:
https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloade ... ml#signing
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/sbsigntool
Re: Installing Debian on secure boot blocked system
Posted: 2017-10-11 18:48
by woteb
Thanks!! It seems useful to me. I understand that with the admin password setting in the uefi settings it is often (read: not always) also necessary to enable / disable on secure boot.