James House-Lantto (He/Him)1d ago

https://linuxiac.com/canonical-plans-controversial-grub-changes-for-ubuntu-26-10-secure-boot/

Canonical wants to remove LUKS disk Encryption, LVM, most mid-raid modes, ZFS, BTRFS and many other file systems and image parsing abilities from GRUB in a recently announced, Planned change to Secure Boot, Supposedly for "security"

In order to retain these features the system would need to not use secure Boot.

Systems that don't use Secure Boot, or rely on the above features, can not upgrade to Ubuntu 26.10

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Canonical Plans Controversial GRUB Changes for Ubuntu 26.10 Secure Boot

Canonical plans changes to Secure Boot GRUB in Ubuntu 26.10, removing support for LUKS, LVM, ZFS, and other features.

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Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)1d ago
I just love that there is some guy, out there, who had to say out loud "we're removing Disk encryption, to make Ubuntu more secure" and absolutely no one stopped at that point and said "wait a minute...."
Show threadBruce Elrick1d ago

@Theeo123
Just to be clear, this removes support for such things in /boot only to get access to the kernel. From there the kernel can support all those things.

I'm not commenting on whether this is a good idea or not, just clarifying what hlthis is actually about because the article doesn't make the above fact obvious

Show threadFabian Transchel1d ago
@virtuous_sloth @Theeo123 It's still a splendidly stupid idea, because this way you have to trust your TPM chip to verify the bootloader instead of a self-signed password or other factor.
Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)

@ftranschel @virtuous_sloth

Assuming you have a TPM chip....

Mar 26 at 4:45pmMoshidon
Show threadFabian Transchel1d ago
@Theeo123 @virtuous_sloth rrrrright...