Dual‑Boot Pop!_OS 24.04 + Windows 11 with SecureBoot

popos+win11_secureboot.md

• Enable SecureBoot with default options.

• Wait for Windows installation normally.

• After windows setup finishes, enter in BIOS and complettly disable secure boot.

• cleanup all SecureBoot keys from BIOS, disable plataform key injection and then disable SecureBoot, be sure all keys are delete before continue.

• Install PopOS normally.

• After PopOS setup finishes, ensure that the boot order in bios is setted to firstly boot to the disk used to install PopOS not to the system partition.

• Boot into PopOS and install/reinstall shim-signed, mokutil and sbctl.

• check sbctl status, u should see something like:

  # sbctl status
  Installed:   ✘ Sbctl is not installed
  Setup Mode:  ✘ Enabled
  Secure Boot: ✘ Disabled

• Setup the sbctl, sbctl setup --migrate

• Check if keys are created with sbctl status, if not, create it sbctl create-keys

• After keys creation, enroll the keys sbctl enroll-keys ---microsoft

• Sign the EFIs, use sbctl verify list all entries, os-probe can help too, and sbctl sign -s <file> to sign.

  • /boot/efi/EFI/Pop_OS-6e009c73-3743-49b8-8204-10494b681a60/vmlinuz.efi
  • /boot/efi/EFI/Recovery-742A-6D9F/vmlinuz.efi
  • /boot/efi/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64-signed.efi
  • /boot/efi/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi
  • /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/mmx64.efi
  • /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

• Edit DKMS config file /etc/dkms/framework.conf, to setup mok keys

  mok_signing_key=/var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv
  mok_certificate=/var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der

• Disable sbat policy sudo mokutil --set-sbat-policy delete

• Install MOK certificate sudo update-secureboot-policy --enroll-key, it will ask for some password, this will be used in the MokManager screen in the next step.

• Reboot, u should see MokManager screen, enroll the key, u will bee asked for the password from the previous step, reboot again.

• After PopOS bootup, check if keys was enrolled, mokutil --list-enrolled, if don't, try to import the shim key again, mokutil -i /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der