Re: [Tails-testers] SUCCESS - testing: Secure Boot, GRUB, a…

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A: Rodney Vinen, tails-testers
Assumpte: Re: [Tails-testers] SUCCESS - testing: Secure Boot, GRUB, and overlayfs
Hi,

Rodney Vinen (2020-02-03):
> Used
> https://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_feature-6560-secure-boot/lastSuccessful/archive/build-artifacts/
>
> Made USB using Rufus, both MBR and GPT mode for burning the USB worked.


Note that we do not support installing Tails with Rufus.
It might not work at all, or worse: they might seem to work, but
produce a USB stick that does *not* behave like Tails should

(Source: https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/#unetbootin_etc)

> Computer Tested:


i.e. Acer Aspire A315-21G

> This computer WILL NOT secure boot with with EFI using Tails v4.0 to v4.2


OK, that's expected.

> This computer DID secure boot with EFI using Tails v3.16


That's very strange as Tails 3.16 was *not* signed in a manner that
a EFI boot loader with Secure Boot enabled could verify. Anyway,

> This computer DOES secure boot with EFI using your current alpa-version of
> Tails.


Great!

> No persistent storage ability though (whinging that it's not made
> from a Tails USB iso).


I think that's a side effect of using Rufus.
I recommend you retry using Etcher, as per our documentation :)