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Dual booting with Windows? Beware recent Win update! (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Am I right in assuming this only applies to single disks partitioned with both Windows and a Linux distro?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    No. Any efi dual boot is affected.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Even separate disks? Ouch. I'm guessing Fedora is not impacted here.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes. Separate or single disks makes no difference, it writes changes to the efi partition that bios references to boot.

    I don't know whether fedora is impacted, the article specifies the following as documented impacts

    " The reports indicate that multiple distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux, are all affected."

    And I also note that at least 2 arch implementations are impacted in addition to that list (i first saw it on arch forums).

    I would suggest you definitely DON'T assume fedora is unaffected until you check your install, fedora participates in safeboot so given all the article listed distros also do (and arch has a method for it)

    Odds are they're impacted, M$ has done a scattergun on this, the only ones you can be sure are unaffected are those still bios booting rather than uefi

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