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Grub-bls or Grub-efi for a home user (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Maragato@lemmy.world to c/opensuse@lemmy.world

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Hello. I just received my new mini PC and I want to delete the Windows that comes installed and install Tumbleweed. I have seen in the Yast installer that the default grub is Grub-bls instead of grub-efi, which was the default until now. Which one should I choose, and what benefits does grub-bls offer to make it the new default boot manager in Tumbleweed? Thank you for Tumbleweed.

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[–] Balinares@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

From a quick bit of research (https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/08/grub2-bls/), it seems like Grub BLS (Boot Loader Specification) is a revision of Grub EFI that supports automatically creating boot menu entries for kernels that have such a BLS entry in the EFI partition. Those BLS entries are neat because they should work independently from your bootloader -- you could switch to systemd-boot and not have to reconfigure anything. I don't know about Tumbleweed, but in other distros, those entries are created automatically when you install or update a kernel.

I see no reason not to use it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

It seems it may be part of OpenSUSEs move to full disk encryption using TPM/secure boot. There was secureboot before, but now everything but a small FAT partition is encrypted.

They tweaked things so that that an encrypted binary is created and unlocked only by TPM/secure boot, prior to actually running the boot / main kernel stuff. The system regenerates the binary after each load to stay current with the rolling TPM registers.

https://microos.opensuse.org/blog/2023-12-20-sdboot-fde/