I haven’t booted into the Windows partition on my Chuwi laptop for a while, but hearing that a recent Windows update leaves dual boot users unable to boot Linux at all, I’m glad I haven’t! Microsoft’s mid-August drop of security updates to Windows 10 and Windows 11 includes a security patch to address an exploit targeting GRUB2 Secure Boot bypassing. The Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update nixes the vulnerability by preventing ‘old, vulnerable boot managers’ from being able to boot. Prior to release, Microsoft said this update would not be applied to systems where an active dual-boot was detected, […]
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