Is it possible to install manjaro alongside windows 11 on a laptop with secure boot enabled? How to create a dual boot setup without disabling secure boot? Any potential risks to be aware of during the installation process?
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No, Secure Boot must be disabled in order to install Manjaro. You can of course re-enable Secure Boot after installing, but it’s not all that easy, and we do not support it.
If you do want it enabled, then you should consult Unified Extensible Firmware Interface/Secure Boot - ArchWiki .
By choosing another distribution, perhaps?
The forum has a search function, y’know, and if you’d have used it, you would have found many articles/posts regarding secure boot:
Manjaro Linux as distribution does not support secure boot so if you want to use secure boot for Windows - you will have to switch it off to boot Manjaro Linux installation - this quickly becomes an annoyance
It is possible to use secure boot but it is a manual process and unsupported by Manjaro Linux as distribution.
The process is the same as it is for Arch Linux with the exception that kernels are named differently with Manjaro LInux - please see [Unified Extensible Firmware…
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Work In Progress
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Verified Boot
Please note the distinction Verified vs. Secure
Please respect that this topic is NOT a discussion of pro’s and con’s of Secure Boot.
Constructive feedback - errors, typos, improvements are welcome.
Opinions on Microsoft, the boot method or TPM has been discussed ad nauseum.
Been there done that - time to move on .
Inspiration and credit
Accidently stumbled on this [User:ZachHilman/Installation_-Btrfs%2B_LUKS2_%2B_Sec…
I realize this is a touchy subject for some, but for others, enacting secure boot in Manjaro may be of interest.
New to Arch/Manjaro, I had many difficulties finding secure boot for a Surface Pro 6. The Arch wikis about secure boot, by their own admission, are outdated or incomplete. For instance, signed grub needs to be installed and but apparently, grub-install is now superseded by working with grub img, a change that I found only after many failed attempts and ultimately proved above my pay …
(I don’t know if this’ll work, but I provided it to illustrate my point.)
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Note This tutorial is a bit outdated, some tools matured well, some AUR stuff is not necessary anymore, a revision is coming.
By its nature this post is a response to the question once asked by <a class="mention" href="/u/linux-aarhus">@linux-aarhus</a> and several other people (<a class="mention" href="/u/arisa">@Arisa</a> <a class="mention" href="/u/muvvenby">@muvvenby</a>). Hope …
Also, as @Aragorn said:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#Implementing_Secure_Boot
(Which should have been your first stop, really.)
But personally, I don’t like the idea of a paying a third party for permission to use my own computer, so secure boot is turned off.
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Microsoft is in control around secure boot, i would evade that shady stuff.
You can also Install Win11 without the secure boot or you choose another distro.
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I have it disabled and my win 11 runs perfectly fine.
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I have disabled (read: removed ) my Windows, and Linux runs better than fine.
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Short answer is no - because Manjaro does not support secure boot.
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