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by xvilka 3305 days ago
And this shows why forcing that in shim was a bad idea. They should have made a version breaking the chain, and allowing to boot unsigned kernel.
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No, this shows why (forcing) Secure Boot was a bad idea. Allowing Shim to load unsigned kernels would be equivalent to having it bypass SB in the first place, which Microsoft would presumably never sign.