Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Light-GRUB-For-CoCo

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poinck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 79d (3 replies)
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Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 79d (1 reply)

How does one switch their bootloader?

bitfucker@programming.dev · 6 pts · 79d

By installing another bootloader and make the UEFI entry for it. I don't use a bootloader at all tho and just straight up register the linux kernel using efibootmgr

lama@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d

From the article:

Rather than shipping a light version of GRUB, Fedora / Red Hat developers at first considered making use of systemd-boot for confidential VMs but the systemd developers reject adding additional features, systemd-boot isn't as widely tested and fuzzed as GRUB, wanting to avoid maintaining multiple bootloaders in Fedora, and other architecture concerns.

lengau@midwest.social · 1 pts · 79d

I remember when people were shitting on Ubuntu for suggesting something very similar.