Natty Alpha 3

[Tom H]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:53 PM,  <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> Have you installed some huge commercial softwares that use the Macrovision
> (vendor of InstallShield) FlexNet anti-piracy technology like Adobe CS3-5 or
> newer AutoCADs in your XP? It's a shame that under such conditions Grub2
> 1.99 will ruin your first partition if it's formatted using NTFS.
>
> Interesting that Grub2 1.99 would be released to the public with that known
> problem and risk.  One more pfennig deposited.
>
> This particular bug is not listed in the release notes or know bugs. :-(
>
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/730225

The bug that you reference is marked as critical and the version name
of grub-pc includes "rc" ("1.99~rc1-3ubuntu3"). I don't think that
it's the first time that there's such a collision for core.img.

You shouldn't be surprised that an alpha release is buggy!

I hope that we'll default to GPT partitions soon enough so that
grub'll have its own mini-partition and not have to share the post-MBR
gap with Windows security/anti-piracy software chunks.