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uefi-ntfs
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How long would it take for USB 2.0 to boot windows2go?
Because we use UEFI:NTFS to ensure that:
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Does anyone know why Rufus creates a second "UEFI" volume that's <1MB?
Indeed, that 1 MB volume is the UEFI:NTFS partition that is described here.
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MSI's (In)Secure Boot
> Can you please link me some articles/references?
Well explained here: https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-co...
So the issue is not the SecureBoot itself, but the ways it can and has been and will be leveraged against the user. If a desktop computer example is not enough, look at how Android phones have increasingly tightened down everything. You can't just take any model and install a custom OS (aka ROM in Android community). It was universally easy 10 years ago, that's why Cyanogenmod became so popular. Now your choices are very limited.
> \> > But that is besides the fact that these acts of aggression
A great thread and arguments provided here, how Microsoft (who love open source, according to own PR) will not sign anything GPLv3 for SecureBoot: https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs/issues/20#issuecomment-...
Microsoft has the defacto monopoly over the signature process, because nobody embeds any CAs in UEFI except for Microsoft's. What would be a user-friendly way? To preload UEFI with major Linux distros' keys, disabled by default, with an easy first-time setup menu to select what to do.
My laptop came with SecureBoot enabled by default although being "OS: FreeDOS" on paper. I had to figure out to disable it to boot into a live distro else it fell into an EFI shell.
> Vote with your wallet, don't buy the hardware.
> ... I am much more concerned about Intel ME and AMD PSP, where's the outrage about that?
With this I just want to say the wallet argument doesn't work when something slowly becomes the status quo and it takes experts/activists to fight back (a minority by numbers).
> I still can't easily utilise a TPM [...] and nobody bothered to integrate the functionality?
I agree, I'd have liked to enforce SecureBoot post-installation but it is too much hassle for me, I think only RedHat made good improvements in this area where it's actually easily usable (auto signing the kernel image etc.)
> Security isn't about what's unlikely, it's about the entire chain.
... But if I followed through, then still the weakest point is/becomes the keyboard. It would be trivial for an evil maid to add a keylogging device between your desktop and the physical keyboard. Do you check the rear IO on each boot? The considerations differ for laptops where you can't just plug something inbetween and need to disassemble it (time required: over night or airport luggage).
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Windows 10 ISO with a large WIM - can’t boot
Please see here or here.
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Looking for help installing a specific distro on a very peculiar computer.
I am the developer of Rufus, and I have spent an inordinate amount of time making sure that, YES, EVEN UEFI COMPUTERS THAT ARE "ALLEGEDLY" ONLY MEANT TO SUPPORT FAT32 FOR BOOT CAN ACTUALLY BOOT FROM THE NTFS PARTITION CREATED BY RUFUS (through the magic of a little solution called UEFI:NTFS). See also this entry from our FAQ.
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Rufus made 2 UEFI partitions. Which one to choose?
For more details about the second UEFI:NTFS partition, see https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs.
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I made a USB for Build 25120 with Rufus and for some reason it is also displaying the UEFI partition for it. It is meant to happen?
Rufus dev here. That's the UEFI:NTFS partition, needed to boot computers that don't have a native NTFS driver and it is completely harmless (and uses a negligible amount of space since it's just 1 MB). So, yes, this is meant to happen.
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Anyone able to install windows on steam deck while only owning a mac?
So if you want to copy the contents of the ISO as is, you need to extract them to exFAT or NTFS (which are file systems that the Windows installer can also read outside of FAT), but this means that you may have to install an exFAT or NTFS UEFI driver to chain load the Windows installer, which is why utilities like Rufus and WoeUSB add a 1 MB UEFI:NTFS partition at the end of the drive, that takes care of that.
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Can't get Windows 11 image to boot.
Rufus uses UEFI:NTFS, and therefore WILL allow your firmware to boot from NTFS. So, no, you don't have to use FAT32, and you should let Rufus create the drive with NTFS, as, even when using NTFS, it will create a drive that can be booted from UEFI.
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[Discussion] Tool to burn in USB a standalone media created in SCCM
If it's because Rufus creates 2 partitions, then you should read about this (UEFI:NTFS is what Rufus uses to boot drives that are NOT compatible with UEFI, such as ones where you cannot use FAT32 because they contain a file that is larger than 4 GB), and understand that the data on the NTFS partition is exactly the same as the one you'd have found on a FAT32 drive, if your data was suitable for FAT32.
shim
- Critical bug that exists in every Linux boot loader signed in the past decade
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Signing a UEFI module
Microsoft doesn't really sign other people's code for UEFI. They do sign shim (https://github.com/rhboot/shim) which will look at other keys the user registered with UEFI to load other components to enable you to write custom third party UEFI modules while still supporting secure boot.
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The vendor-locking is for your own safety. Do not resist.
In this case, the distros first boot loader is shim, which is signed by Microsoft. Shim is FOSS: https://github.com/rhboot/shim
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SBAT for rEFInd
How do I get dual boot set up and running? There doesn't seem so much documentation about this sbat chicanery as it was introduced to shim in 2021 and patched in rEFInd a bit more than a month ago, so I suppose not enough people have had this trouble yet.
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Microsoft VS BlackLotus Malware
Secure boot still isn't "secure" at all because microsoft has signed multiple bootloaders with their own keys, which exist only to chain load a second bootloader. See https://github.com/rhboot/shim and https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linux-foundation-secure-boot-system-released/
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First in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot
A new mechanism called SBAT (https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SBAT.md) is now used to allow revocation of groups of bootloaders rather than individual hashes in order to mitigate the resource consumption
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Ultimate guide to Pop OS secure boot with NVIDIA.
{ echo "sbat,1,SBAT Version,sbat,1,https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SBAT.md" echo "systemd-boot,1,systemd,systemd-boot,1,https://systemd.io" } > sbat.csv
- How to add an SBAT section to grub and resign?
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Unable to install Fedora 36 with secure boot enabled.
Yeah, that incident instigated a totally new approach to revoking bad bootloaders that everybody (including Microsoft) should be using nowadays. So I guess HP just never got the memo.
- Invalid image when trying to boot Nobara Project USB image (both Gnome and KDE)
What are some alternatives?
webMAN-MOD - Extended services for PS3 console (web server, ftp server, netiso, ntfs, ps3mapi, etc.)
tpm-km - yet another pack of scripts for TPM2+Luks
ntfs3 - ntfs3 Linux kernel module by Paragon Software
tpm-luks
WoeUSB - A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux
tpm2KeyUnlock - Adds an automated unlock function based on TPM policy installation
Reverse-Engineering-Tutorial - A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit ARM & 64-bit ARM architectures.
tpm2-initramfs-tool - Tool used in initramfs to seal/unseal FDE key to the TPM
IRISMAN - All-in-one backup manager for PlayStation®3. Fork of Iris Manager.
SynapseOS - Синапс ОС (SynapseOS) - российская микроядерная операционная система.
stig - TUI and CLI for the BitTorrent client Transmission