On Friday, August 23, 2019 12:34:50 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> GRUB verifies the signature of the kernel before it is booted, in the
> Secure Boot enabled case.
Correct, but that's one architecture, but failing to load an image is a fatal
error.
> a. Press any key before the timeout and it
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:59 PM John Harris wrote:
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> GRUB does not have the ability to halt the system on all architectures, but it
> does on most. That said, there are some things to consider:
>
> If GRUB was able to load the kernel and initrd/initramfs image, even if it's
> corrupt, it will
On Friday, August 23, 2019 11:06:18 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:48 AM Jan Pokorný wrote:
>
>
> > One such other situation is having the bootloader (grub2) failed and
> > hence be stuck in 'press a key to continue' or just staying in the
> > selection menu without any
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:48 AM Jan Pokorný wrote:
> One such other situation is having the bootloader (grub2) failed and
> hence be stuck in 'press a key to continue' or just staying in the
> selection menu without any timeout ticking for whatever reason.
There is signature verification of all
On Friday, August 23, 2019 4:46:53 AM MST Jan Pokorný wrote:
> On 20/08/19 20:59 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > There is no good reason for the current behavior, in particular on a
> > laptop. And it's fail danger, not fail safe. The very simple work
> > around for the computer shutting off in 3
On 20/08/19 20:59 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> There is no good reason for the current behavior, in particular on a
> laptop. And it's fail danger, not fail safe. The very simple work
> around for the computer shutting off in 3 minutes of inactivity and
> you don't like that? Power it back on and
