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authorSteve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>2026-05-17 22:45:41 +0100
committerSteve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>2026-05-17 22:45:41 +0100
commitca8556f025821178897986b431bf1bfdc38abb09 (patch)
tree82eb3d8736e6e957f9eea7c76db4dff01f624eca
parent32c23f8e7c8dace4677a5393a86cb91857630ff0 (diff)
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Add more text to the failure messsage
And link to a wiki page for more info. Need to write that page!
-rw-r--r--debian/shim-signed.preinst.in6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/shim-signed.preinst.in b/debian/shim-signed.preinst.in
index 32c8a09..76343fa 100644
--- a/debian/shim-signed.preinst.in
+++ b/debian/shim-signed.preinst.in
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ case "$1" in
# SB is enabled but we can't boot this shim
echo "***********************************************************"
echo "$SB_BOOT_ERROR"
- echo "ABORT - this system will not boot with this shim installed."
+ echo
+ echo "You probably need to update the trusted certificates list (DB)."
+ echo "See https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot/UpdateCA for more information."
+ echo
+ echo "ABORT - this system will not currently boot with this shim installed."
echo "***********************************************************"
exit 1
fi