Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute

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How does one switch their bootloader?

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By installing another bootloader and make the UEFI entry for it. I don’t use a bootloader at all tho and just straight up register the linux kernel using efibootmgr

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From the article:

Rather than shipping a light version of GRUB, Fedora / Red Hat developers at first considered making use of systemd-boot for confidential VMs but the systemd developers reject adding additional features, systemd-boot isn’t as widely tested and fuzzed as GRUB, wanting to avoid maintaining multiple bootloaders in Fedora, and other architecture concerns.

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I remember when people were shitting on Ubuntu for suggesting something very similar.

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