Ubuntu's "distro packager" is also a single line of code, as follows:
"Trees of bootloader components are profided together with a sample xorriso command to use." Spelling randomly varies by architecture. ;-) The other key to Ubuntu's proliferation has been the shim.efi/fbx.efi secure-boot process, /EFI/ubuntu can be re-named and so can everything else, but it won't boot, secure or not, unless the kernel is rebuilt to use a different name. All Ubuntu's, even Bodhi, use not only the same signed bootloader, but the same signature, which Canonical paid Microsoft for. Secure or not, you'll need a "non-generic" kernel to EFI stub-load from the firmware boot manager. SmartOS secure-boots from optical only. There is no ESP or PXE involved, secure boot or no. The security is between your UEFI and your CDROM. I can boot smartos.iso from SDXC, directly in the slot, on a subset of hardware having said slot. I have a USB SDXC reader that says it's an optical drive, I can boot from that too, also a subset. I can boot from SD with the USB reader, or the older iMac, but the newer slots have a firmware requirement of SDXC for secure boot. For which the SD/SDXC USB reader, is a workaround. But, only if the UEFI allows USB boot. Internal SDXC secure-boot doesn't require Microsoft Security Theatre. BYOKey. -Eric ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T105ca75544ab3123-M67a59931fd7b214409314b55 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
