I had a laugh watching The Level1 Show August 28 2024 yesterday as that Windows Update just broke my Linux/Win11 dual boot laptop!
On Monday morning I had updated my astrophotography laptop Windows 11 then “paused” updates so it would not pester me or waste battery. Monday night it booted right up in the field and ran my automated imaging rig windows software just fine for over 8 hours.
Tuesday afternoon I got home and went to boot the machine to backup the ~7 gigs of astrophotographs for processing, but instead I was shocked to be greeted by this message:
Verifiying shim SBAT data failed: Security Policy Violation
Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT self-check failed: Security Policty Violation
Yes, they spelled verifying incorrectly in the official error message lmao…
My heart skipped a beat at the thought of having lost an entire nights worth of astrophotography field data!
Wendell’s commentary was spot on. I did my usual attempt at booting from an arch linux rescue usb drive to re-install grub, but no luck, just the same error. The error would disappear after 5 seconds and shut the laptop off. So I took the above photo to read it exactly and search online. I found the article discussed and decided the easiest “fix” was to simply disable secure boot… lmao…
GRUB came up fine and I booted onto Linux (there are two nvme drives, one all Windows and one all Linux). I mounted the windows partition and rsync’d the data over and haven’t booted windows again yet… lol…
Anyway, amusing to see this stuff in person and hear y’all discuss it in the news show!
Cheers!
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