[ale] Is it risky?

[Jim Kinney]

I think the shim is the signed portion of the pre-boot loader.

On August 29, 2015 9:33:24 AM EDT, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 08/29/2015 09:07 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI seems pretty complete.
>1. my default/primary/first installed linux OS is fedora..
>2.
>
>  *
>
>    If your disk already contains an ESP (eg if your computer had
>    Windows 8 preinstalled), it can be used for Ubuntu too. *Do not
>    format it.* It is strongly recommended to have only 1 ESP per disk.
>
>I had windows 8.1 pre-installed, upgraded to windows 10, then installed
>fedora. Then added 2nd drive & ubuntu server. Now I have 2 ESP
>partitions.. oops:)
>
>shim is a new package, part of this ESP/UEFI... but guess what, in that
>whole article here is the only mention of shim:
>
>
>  SecureBoot
>
>"Secure Boot
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot>"
>is a new UEFI feature that appeared in 2012, with Windows8 preinstalled
>computers. All current Ubuntu 64bit (not 32bit
><https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1025555>)
>versions
>now support this feature, but as PCs implementing support for it have
>only become widespread at the end of 2012 it is not yet widely tested,
>so it's possible that you may encounter problems booting Ubuntu under
>Secure Boot. If you do, please file a bug report against the shim
><https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/> package in Ubuntu,
>preferably using the command ubuntu-bug shim once you've installed with
>Secure Boot disabled.
>
>
>so, what exactly is shim?? and why do I care?? without it, I don't
>think
>ESP works:) and you can't boot linux.
>
>
>
>
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