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  • Vik@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

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

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          4 months ago

          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