Linux Foundation's Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Released

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 9, 2013 @05:28AM from the what-about-the-pre-pre-pre-bootloader? dept.

hypnosec writes "The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot pre-bootloader for independent Linux distros and software developers has finally been released. Announcing the release of the secure boot system James Bottomley noted that the signed pre-bootloader was delivered by Microsoft on February 6th. Bottomley has released two validated files: PreLoader.efi and HashTool.efi. Bottomley has also created a bootable mini-USB image that provides 'an EFI shell where the kernel should be and uses Gummiboot to boot.' Just last week the pre-bootloader had to be rewritten to accommodate booting of all versions of Linux."

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What about *BSD? by ad454 · 2013-02-09 05:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

This is great news for Linux distributions, and a small victory in the losing battle for openness.
But in the spirit of openness, hopefully bootloaders for NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD will also be eventually signed.
Everyone should be able to install and run whatever they want on their own computers.