Friday 24 February 2023

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 02:20:25PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> This makes good sense to me. The concern I'm noticing here is that Secure
> Boot activates a kernel lockdown mode that prohibits kexec.

Incorrect. It disables the old kexec syscall which doesn't have an
interface for doing signature verification of the payload. It does not
disable the use of kexec as a feature.

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