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		denton-scratch on July 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI Secure Boot ec... This seems to be MS's response to a rather serious mistake in GRUB2 - a howler, I'd say. I've never liked GRUB2 much. The configuration seems to freely mix executable code and data, which makes me tremble at the prospect of altering it. And I find it much harder to understand than GRUB Legacy (and that's saying something).

password4321 on July 12, 2022 [–]

I recently learned about EFISTUB thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31231968&p=2#31234648

> Load Linux directly as an EFI executable via the EFISTUB approach.

> the "Using UEFI directly" section [...] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFISTUB

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