Secure Boot issues on Acer system

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Ah, It looks like I’ve figured it out. I was very close, and was literally on the last missing step. When prompted to add the selected file to the Secure Boot database in the BIOS, that prompt is actually a field asking for the Boot Description. And so, I once again selected /EFI/fedora/shim.efi, and this time gave it a boot description, which I simply set as “Fedora”. After that, it booted straight to grub, then Fedora. Running mokutil –sb-state finally returns “SecureBoot enabled”.

So, for completeness sake, and any one else that needs it, the full steps for enabling Secure Boot on a Dual-Boot Acer Hardware with an Nvidia GPU then would be the following:

  1. Generate and Enroll the keys as per the RPM Fusion Guide (or use the guide I linked before)
  2. Install the Nvidia Drivers and ensure they’re built as per the RPM Fusion Guide (or the guide I linked before)
  3. Enable SecureBoot in BIOS
  4. In the BIOS, under Security, select “Select an UEFI File as trusted for executing” and select Fedora’s UEFI file there (which can be first found using something like the efibootmgr command. Provide a short name/description after when prompted.
  5. All done! Confirm SecureBoot state with mokutil –sb-state.

Thanks again everyone for the help! I do hope future Fedora/Kernel/Nvidia updates won’t mess this up though, but we’ll see.