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[uefi] change the name of the UEFI:NTFS partition to RUFUS_BOOT
* This should make it more explicit to Windows users to identify the installation media.
* Also update crazy-max/ghaction-upx to latest (Closes #2936).
* Also fix a Coverity warning and use improve StrArray handling/init.
2026-03-11 15:47:06 +00:00

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This directory contains a flat image of the FAT UEFI:NTFS partition added by
Rufus for NTFS and exFAT UEFI boot support.
See https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs for more details.
This image, which can be mounted as a FAT file system or opened in 7-zip,
contains the following data:
o Secure Boot signed NTFS UEFI drivers, derived from ntfs-3g [1].
These drivers are the exact same as the read-only binaries from release 1.7,
except for the addition of Microsoft's Secure Boot signature.
Note that, per Microsoft's current Secure Boot signing policies, the 32-bit
ARM driver (ntfs_arm.efi) is not Secure Boot signed.
o Non Secure Boot signed exFAT UEFI drivers from EfiFs [2].
These drivers are the exact same as the binaries from EfiFs release 1.11 but,
because they are licensed under GPLv3, cannot be Secure Boot signed.
o Secure Boot signed UEFI:NTFS bootloader binaries [3].
These drivers are the exact same as the binaries from release 2.6, except for
the addition of Microsoft's Secure Boot signature.
Note that, per Microsoft's current Secure Boot signing policies, the 32-bit
ARM bootloader (bootarm.efi) is not Secure Boot signed.
The above means that, if booting an NTFS partition on an x86_32, x86_64 or ARM64
system, Secure Boot does not need to be disabled.
The FAT partition was created on Debian GNU/Linux using the following commands:
dd if=/dev/zero of=uefi-ntfs.img bs=512 count=2048
chown 1000:100 uefi-ntfs.img
mkfs.vfat -n RUFUS_BOOT uefi-ntfs.img
mount -t vfat uefi-ntfs.img /mnt/hd -o rw,uid=1000,gid=100
and then copying the relevant files.
[1] https://github.com/pbatard/ntfs-3g
[2] https://github.com/pbatard/efifs
[3] https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs