Secure Boot issues on Acer system

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I’m on Fedora 42 at the moment, running the former command gave me only 580a6f4cc4 Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011.

I’ll try to look around then for how others have enable Secure Boot with Acer hardware, and report back on results.

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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.

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Could you please set a tag for ACER so other people may find this solution. And perhaps also change the title to describe the actual problem.

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Ah I will do so, but I can’t seem to figure how to change the title or add tags here. How would I go about doing that?

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I have no Idea. Perhaps @computersavvy knows or have permission to do so.

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I added the acer tag and edited the title to better reflect the subject for you.

If the thread is new enough, and you were active here on the forum enough, you could do the same by clicking on the title. There are restrictions on what new members here can do until they have participated long enough to earn higher trust levels.

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Ah thanks for changing the title and adding the tags then!

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