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Re:Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:24AM (#24019936)
As usual, there are prophetic warnings from Linus:

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html

BIOS should be simple, because it is buggy anyway. Handing over to a bootloader in the MBR is all that a BIOS should do. Now one is at the mercy of NVRAM, grub2 and loads of gratuitous complexity.